Children’s live flu nasal spray

[Dyzzie22]

Morning, my Granddaughters are about to have their annual flu jab, which here in the UK is a live nasal spray. I know I need to keep away from them for a while, but cannot find anything on the NHS website to suggest how long for. Does anyone know or have had experience of this? Thanks

[Miu48]

I believe it’s a few days post vaccine that they potentially shed the virus for. I think I would leave it a week just to be sure. Emma

[Poodle2 in reply to Miu48]

Hi Emma, how are you planning to manage it yourself? Did you speak to your consultant about it?

Petra x

[Miu48 in reply to Poodle2]

Hi Petra. How are things with you? I hope everything is going smoothly for you.

I have requested non live injection for the children’s flu vaccine at my GP. They are happy to do this.

Best wishes

Emma

[SofiaDeo]

I am finding an "at least 7 days" recommendation on OncoLink:

oncolink.org/frequently-ask...

The document link for the IDSA guidelines is in this article and discuss family members starting Page 20, section e63:

pharmacytimes.com/view/guid...

If it's "attenuated live" the recommendation is at least 7 days. If it's a full on live, I am not sure it's even addressed, I would do 14 days. This is from 2013, I am not finding a more recent one. Better safe than sorry. But I am extremely risk-avoidant. Here's the society's main website, if you want to search for something more recent, there may be a paper or article after the 2013 Guidelines were done:

idsociety.org/

[Dyzzie22 in reply to SofiaDeo]

Thank you both for your replies that’s really helpful.