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Can skin ligten up after an immunization is given?
4 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
No: I have never heard of this as a complication or consequence of a vaccine.
Answered 6/15/2013
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Not Really: No it does not lighten up after am immunisation
Answered 12/30/2014
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Probably not: The only time this might happen, and it would be unusual, would be a lighter patch at the injection site. Some people get a small patch of light skin, called hypopigmentation, at the site of a trauma. I have never seen this happen with an immunization but it is not impossible. But there should be no effect on your skin as a whole.
Answered 8/1/2015
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