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Do patients with a PEG allergy have a contraindication to receiving mRNA vaccines?

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Allergy & Immunology · Frontier Dermatology

While early anecdotal reports suspected that PEG allergy may be linked to allergic reactions to mRNA COVID vaccines, subsequent research disproved this. Therefore, even patients with true IgE-mediated allergy to PEG (which is extremely rare) do not have a contraindication to receiving mRNA vaccines....

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