{"id":10696,"date":"2023-06-15T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T22:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10696"},"modified":"2024-08-04T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T22:41:56","slug":"do-covid-vaccines-raise-the-risk-of-seizures-in-children","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/do-covid-vaccines-raise-the-risk-of-seizures-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Do COVID vaccines raise the risk of seizures in children?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Articles about a recent study are\u00a0going viral\u00a0<\/a>because they claim the study shows 100 children had seizures of COVID vaccination, intimating that the vaccine raises the risk of seizures as well as Bell\u2019s Palsy, appendicitis, stroke, and other health concerns,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Facts:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]Buried in the article tweeted was a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0that looked at adverse events following COVID vaccination.\u00a0Overall, the study did not find any safety concerns with the COVID-19 vaccines in children under the age of 5. The findings are consistent with the results of clinical trials and other safety monitoring systems.<\/p>\n

The article in the referenced tweet seemed concerned about the rates of adverse events following vaccination, with special concern that the outcomes of the vaccinated were not compared to those of the unvaccinated.\u00a0However, the researchers did compare rates of events in the vaccinated to expected rates in the population and found that the events that occurred in the vaccinated children didn\u2019t spark any concern. (The events didn\u2019t happen more often than we would expect them to happen without vaccination.)<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0study<\/a>, 247,011 children under the age of 6 received an mRNA vaccine during the 9-month trial period. When you have a study of a quarter million children, you\u2019d expect to have unfortunate events occur\u2013not related to the vaccine. In fact, the article even pointed out cases of\u00a0hemorrhagic stroke and pulmonary embolism,\u00a0which the study\u00a0noted were\u00a0due to congenital abnormalities and completely unrelated to the vaccine.<\/p>\n

As far as seizures, febrile seizures, which are seizures as a result of rapid temperature change,\u00a0commonly<\/a>\u00a0occur in children 6 months-5 years old. They may seem scary, but are\u00a0generally benign. With a population of 247,000 children, 100 of them having\u00a0seizures is about what we\u00a0would expect to see in a group of children that size.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A study found no safety concerns with COVID-19 vaccines in children under 5, and the occurrence of adverse events like seizures was consistent with expected rates in the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10696","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","jtf_topic_subjects-mrna-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10699,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10696\/revisions\/10699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}