
She spent six hours being monitored at the hospital before being released. Taal drove back to the vaccine clinic, where nurses gave her adrenaline to help reverse her symptoms and called for an ambulance. and my throat was very hoarse and itchy and scratchy." "When I got back into my car around the 18-minute mark, I noticed that my face looked like I had a small sunburn.

"About the seven-minute mark I started to feel my throat itching, almost as if I'd eaten too much pineapple core," she said. The Forest Research Institute in Dehradun was the site for the shoot of the Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan starrer film Student of the Year. Taal said she had an anaphylactic reaction to an ingredient in the vaccine just minutes after getting her first shot in late May at the Archie Browning Sports Centre in Esquimalt, B.C. The towns major tourist draw is Mount Maculot, a 700-meter (2,300 ft) high mountain beside Taal Lake, also a sacred site to ancient Tagalog religion and Christianity. It gets its name from the Spanish word for watershed. She says she is sharing her story to encourage people with allergies or pre-existing health conditions to talk to their doctors if they have worries or questions about getting the vaccine. Cuenca, at the foot of Mount Maculot, formed part of nearby San Jose during the Spanish era until it was separated in 1872. (Annie Taal - image credit)Ī Victoria woman who had a severe allergic reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine says she's grateful she is now fully immunized after she received several low-dosage shots instead of a second jab.Īnnie Taal says despite her scary initial experience with the vaccine she didn't hesitate to seek out her options for a second dose, and doctors assured her it was possible by injecting her with five small doses over the course of an afternoon.

Victoria resident Annie Taal was taken to hospital after a rare allergic reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine.
