The UK Government has issued new guidance for healthcare professionals and recipients of the Covid-19 vaccine to include 'facial swelling in people with facial dermatological fillers.'
Face and lip fillers (dermal fillers) are substances injected into your face. It is a non-permanent procedure which fill lines and wrinkles and add volume to areas such as your lips or cheeks.
However those who get the common cosmetic treatment now have new government guidance after cases of facial swelling following the vaccine were reported.
The product information for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been updated to include 'facial swelling in those with a history of injection of facial dermatological fillers' as a side effect - so if you receive facial fillers you may have want to brace yourself for some additional 'plumping' of any areas you have treated.
The UK Government guidance reads: "Rare cases of facial swelling occurring 1-2 days after vaccination in vaccine recipients with a history of injection of facial dermal fillers were reported in the clinical trials for the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna.
"A recent review of the world-wide ADR data for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine found that, in most cases, the facial swelling was mild, transient and was localised to the site of the dermal filler. The product information for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been updated to include facial swelling in those with a history of injection of facial dermatological fillers as a side effect of the vaccine."
