Important: VAERS reports alone cannot determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event. Reports may contain incomplete, inaccurate, or unverified information. Correlation does not equal causation.
Lacrimation increased appears in 3,282 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 4 reports also mentioned death and 126 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 4.0%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Flu (Trivalent), MMR. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Lacrimation increased has been reported 3,282 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 4 were associated with death (0.12%) and 126 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Lacrimation increased is 4.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.