vaccines

Side effects of medicines including vaccines

What are medicine side effects? Any unwanted or unexpected effects of a medicine, including a vaccine, are called side effects. Side effects can also occur due to interactions with other medicines, food or alcohol. Not all side effects are serious. Some side effects may get better over time. For example, a new medicine might cause nausea at first but then this will go away. Sometimes side effects don’t happen right away. They can develop after you have been taking the medicine for a while. What is an adverse event? Adverse events are things that happen due to the use of a medicine,