Gardasil Side Effects

More serious adverse effects of taking Gardasil are:

• Cardiovascular side effects such as venous thromboembolism and loss of consciousness
• Gastrointestinal side effects such as appendicitis and pancreatitis
• Immunological side effects such as anaphylaxis
• Neurological side effects such as acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, Guillan-Barre syndrome, motor neuron disease, transverse myelopathy syndrome
• Respiratory side effects such as asthma and bronchospasm

The most common adverse side effects of having the Gardasil vaccine are:

• Erythema at injection site
• Injection site pain
• Injection site pruritus
• Swelling at injection site
• Nausea
• Dizziness
• Headache
• Fever

If you or a loved one has had serious adverse effects as a result of taking this drug, please do not hesitate to contact someone who can help you.

Warnings & Recalls for Gardasil

The most important contraindications of Gardasil is hypersensitivity to its product components, or severe allergic reactions to yeast.  You might be dissuaded from being administered Gardasil if you’ve had a previous administration of human papilloma virus recombinant quadrivalent vaccine before. Some precautions before being administered Gardasil are:

• Acute illness with or without fever
• Syncope
• Seizures

It is also worth noting that Gardasil is a drug that is in the FDA-categorized "B" category.  Even though it has been concluded that Gardasil poses no direct threat during pregnancy to the mother or to her fetus, it is still implied and understood that people should not take Gardasil while pregnant but opt after pregnancy to take this drug. If you or a loved one has had serious adverse effects as a result of taking this drug, please do not hesitate to contact someone who can help you.

Gardasil Treatment and Use

Gardasil | Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine is a drug that’s manufactured and marketed by the drug company Merck & Co., and is a vaccine used for the prevention of certain types of human papilloma virus (HPV), specifically HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18. HPV 16 and HPV 18 account for about 70% of all cervical cancers.  These strains are also responsible for most HPV-induced vulvar, anal, vaginal as well as penile cancer cases.  HPV 6 and HPV 11 cause about 90% of genital warts cases.

This drug is not without its controversies due to the requirement in the state of Texas that adolescent girls receive the vaccine.  This was bolstered by the fact that the HPV strains that Gardasil protects against are sexually transmitted.

It was approved by the FDA on June 8, 2006 and the FDA recommends vaccination before adolescence and any sort of potential activity in young women.

The active components of Gardasil are:

• Proteins of HPV Types 6, 11, 16, and 18
• Amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate (adjuvant)
• Yeast protein
• Sodium chloride
• L-histidine
• polysorbate-80
• Sodium borate

Total revenue for Merck & Co. for their Gardasil product in 2010 was about $221 million dollars.

If you or a loved one has had serious adverse effects as a result of taking this drug, please do not hesitate to contact someone who can help you.

Other Names for Gardasil

HPV Vaccine

Lawsuits & Legal Information for Gardasil