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I need to give a bit of history here, in order for this to make sense: Two days prior to getting vaccinated, I applied Artemisia annua tincture to a dark spot of sun damaged skin on my left bicep, and to two small, slightly raised areas of slightly rough, sun-damaged skin on my right wrist; this application was at about 10 pm on 09/21/2022. Approximately 24 hours later, at about 10 pm on 09/22/2022, I noticed that the application site on my left bicep was slightly red, slightly itchy, and slightly raised, but this was a very mild reaction compared to some I had had previously. The tincture-treated spots on my right wrist were completely unaffected: the skin color was normal, there was no itching and no swelling. I remarked to my husband that the skin on my hands was obviously much tougher than the skin over my bicep, because I had had no allergic reaction to the tincture. NOW THE THE CRUX OF THE MATTER: Yesterday, after getting flu and Covid omicron booster shots at about 2:45pm, the only adverse reaction I noticed during the day, was very very slight soreness in the muscle around the injection sites. But then, sometime between 9 and 10 pm, the night after the injections (Sept. 23, 2022) I realized that my right wrist was extremely itchy, and when I touched it, it felt like someone had glued builder's sand to my skin. The skin where I had applied Artemisia annua tincture, two nights previously, had broken out in very very hard, bumps that covered the skin exactly where the tincture had been applied. These bumps were so hard that they really did feel like sand. The site on my bicep, where I had applied the same tincture at the same time two nights previously, was unaffected. This morning the bumps on my wrist were gone, and there was no itching. IN OTHER WORDS, THE VACCINATION INDUCED AN ALLERGIC REACTION IN SKIN THAT HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO AN ALLERGEN TWO DAYS PREVIOUSLY, AND HAD HAD NO REACTION UNTIL AFTER THE VACCINES WERE ADMINISTERED. AND, THE SKIN THAT HAD ALREADY HAD AN ALLERGIC REACTION TO THE ALLERGEN APPLICATION, HAD NO REACTION AFTER THE VACCINES WERE ADMINISTERED. This was obviously not a life threatening event for me, but it does seem to me to suggest that exposure to allergens BEFORE vaccination, might actually be dangerous for some people. This is why I made this report.