Does the Covid 19 Vaccine affect your Eyes

 Everyone is quite curious about the relation between COVID vaccines and vision. Fear of side effects (including vision problems) is the primary reason people remain hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID-19. However, there’s no proof relating to COVID-19 vaccines causing widespread vision-related side effects.


A health care worker in the US experienced eye puffiness after a COVID-19 shot. The revelations suggest that the link is too rare allergic reactions.

Other side effects prove to be“mostly mild to moderate.” Side effects among participants include:

  • Injection-site symptoms, like pain, swelling, and redness.
  • Systemic symptoms like fatigue, chills, joint pain, muscle pain, and fever.
  • Headache and nausea.

The verdict of Eye care professionals responding to COVID-19

COVID-19 vaccines haven’t shown serious vision issues yet, but researchers have detected eye problems in children with the disease. Evidence to date supports the chances of occurrences of eye problems from COVID vaccines.

Eye specialist in Janakpuri from the Healing Touch Eye Centre suggests COVID-19 vaccines have, so far, not caused worrisome vision-based side effects. Though the symptoms may not be highly disastrous, there may be common side effects, including soreness, redness or swelling, teary eyes.

There may be the chances of Red and watery eyes triggered by pink eye, Optic neuritis. But, the chances are very rare.

Bottom line

Various vaccines cause mild side effects connected to vision, but there has been no scientific evidence that COVID-19 vaccines can cause massive eye-related side effects. Eye pain, Blurred vision, Photophobia, or light intolerance may be the temporary symptoms. Injection of AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines included eight eye disorders reports among the 228 reports concerning Moderna’s vaccine. It’s worth noting that the Eye disorders were not reported in the clinical trials according to the granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) statements. Besides, the recent revelations suggest that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s fact sheet does not mention eye side effects after administering Pfizer’s experimental vaccine. If, in any case, you face serious complications, you can talk to the team of experts from the best eye hospital in Delhi, the Healing Touch Eye Centre.

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