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Table 5 Reactions in children with underlying disease

From: Vaccine risk assessment in children with a referred reaction to a previous vaccine dose: 2009–2011 retrospective report at the Bambino Gesu’ children hospital, Rome, Italy

Symptoms for access

Vaccine causing the reaction

Underlying disease

Urticaria

Unknown

Paralysis of the facial nerve

Lymphadenopathy

Unknown

Spherocytosis, splenectomy

Urticaria

DTPa

Mastocytosis

Local swelling

Hexavalent

Milk allergy

Convulsions

Hexavalent

Myoclonic epilepsy

Fainting

Hexavalent

Cystic fibrosis

Respiratory failure

Hexavalent

Prematurity, broncodisplasia

Thrombocytopenia

Hexavalent

Thrombocytopenia

Fever and urticaria

Hexavalent

UVR-renal hypoplasia

Fever and urticaria

hexavalent

UVR-renal hypoplasia

Fever

Hexavalent + pneumococcus

Connatal syphilis

Febrile convulsions

Hexavalent + pneumococcus

Asthma

Vomiting, dyspnea

Hexavalent + pneumococcus

Genetic disease-RGE

Urticaria

Hexavalent + pneumococcus

Atopy

Hypotonia

Hexavalent + pneumococcus

RGE

Fever

Hexavalent + pneumococcus

RGE

Convulsion 24 hours after

Hexavalent + pneumococcus

Tuberous sclerosis, West syndrome

Fever and urticaria

MMR

Asthma

Fever and urticaria

Pneumococcus

Thrombocytopenia

Uncontrollable crying

Pneumococcus

DiGeorge syndrome, VSD, RGE