COVID-19 vaccines do not shorten the length of the penis or affect fertility

When the new coronavirus began to spread around the world in 2019, it also generated a torrent of information about the pandemic, causing concern among the general population. To control infections, various vaccines have been developed, which have shown high efficacy and safety after being authorized by health authorities. However, There are still doubts and myths about vaccines, and more clinical trials have already been carried out that clarify questions regarding their impact on health in general and on sexual and reproductive health in particular. Thus, it has been clarified that the COVID-19 vaccines do not affect the size of the penis or the fertility of men.

“COVID-19 vaccines do not change the size of the penis at all or affect fertility in humans,” underline Infobae Dr. Leda Guzzi, member of the Communication Commission of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases and specialist in infectious diseases at the Olivos Clinic and at the Santa Rosa Hospital of the Vicente López party.

Meanwhile, the head of the urology department of Ruber Juan Bravo 39 and coordinator of the male unit of Spain, François Peinado Ibarra, He also denied any negative impact of vaccines on penile size. “Penile length loss can occur for other reasons such as age, weight gain, prostate cancer surgery, smoking, use of certain medications, Peyronie’s disease or ‘other diseases “, said Dr Peinado Ibarra.

Rather than the vaccines themselves, some side effects may indirectly influence the reduction in sexual appetite. “Decreased sexual appetite may be due to fever and general discomfort from side effects of the vaccine and the psychological, social and biological factors that have led to an increase in sexual dysfunction due to fear or anxiety caused by the pandemic, ”noted Peinado Ibarra.

“Both the quality and quantity of semen are sensitive to many factors and are therefore constantly changing. Vaccines have been shown to have no influence – detailed the Spanish doctor-, since these factors are subject to multiple circumstances related to sexual relief, directly influenced by the psychosocial factors caused by the pandemic ”.

Last June, a study was published in the magazine JAMA from the American Medical Association what did you analyze sperm characteristics of men before and after vaccination with two doses of messenger RNA vaccines and found no statistically significant differences with men who had not received them.

This study was done because in the United States there are still people who are hesitant to get vaccinated, and one of the fears is that it will affect their fertility. It was performed at the University of Miami, under the direction of Dr Ranjith Ramasamy, who works in the department of urology.

“In this study of sperm parameters before and after 2 doses of a COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccine, there was no significant decrease in sperm parameters among this small cohort of healthy men,” reported wrote the authors.

“Since vaccines contain messenger RNA and not live virus, the vaccine is unlikely to affect semen parameters. Although these results showed statistically significant increases in all semen parameters, the magnitude of the change is within normal individual variation and can be influenced by regression to the mean. Additionally, the increase may be due to the longer abstinence time before the second sample. Men with oligospermia did not experience a greater decrease, ”they added.

Regarding women’s health, Dr Guzzi noted that “There are studies underway to assess whether the vaccine causes menstrual cycle problems. So far, all the reports refer to transient menstrual disorders, reversible and without relevant clinical impact ”.

Previously, other false information about COVID-19 vaccines had circulated. For example, Social media posts circulated with videos claiming COVID-19 vaccines left those who received them magnetized, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came out to warn of the lack. veracity of publications and videos. “Do not. Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine will not produce magnetism, not even at the vaccination site, which is usually the arm,” he said on his website.

The agency, which reports to the US Department of Health and Human Services, said “COVID-19 vaccines do not contain ingredients that can produce an electromagnetic field at the site of their injection. All COVID-19 vaccines are free of metals such as iron, nickel, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth alloys, as well as any manufactured product such as microelectronics, electrodes, carbon nanotubes, and nanowires.

It was also pointed out that “the typical dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is less than a milliliter, which is not enough to allow the magnets to be attracted to their vaccination site, even if the vaccine was filled with a magnetic metal “.

Vaccines can have side effects, but these are normal and should go away within a few days. It usually takes the body two weeks after vaccination to protect against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease. A person is not considered to have the full protection offered by each vaccine until 2 weeks after the second dose or two weeks later for single dose vaccines.

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