Live Vaccine

[Addiction88]

If a lupus nephritis patient is administered live polio vaccine what will be the effect? Will it cause poliomyelitis as well? Patient is currently on high dose cellcept and prednisone

[Wendy39]

Hello

As far as I am aware, lupus patients are not advised to have any live vaccine. It’s too dangerous for us.

Have you asked your medical team about this?

Wendy

[MEGS53 in reply to Wendy39]

Hi. Do you know if live vaccines are advised against for people on immunosuppressant drugs with Lupus - or for people with Lupus per se? Thanks

[Wendy39 in reply to MEGS53]

As far as I know, (remember I’m not medically trained, just a fellow lupus patient) we shouldn’t have live vaccines whether we’re on immune suppressant medication or not. Our immune systems don’t behave how they should and live vaccines might provoke a nasty response. BUT like with everything else, you should check the LUPUS UK website and speak to your doctor. Best wishes x

[MEGS53 in reply to Wendy39]

Thank you for replying, Wendy. I ask because I was given a live vaccine for Yellow Fever some years ago and I seemed to produce a low-grade version of the disease. I haven't been Dx'd with Lupus, but it did seem strange that I became so poorly at the time.

[KayHimm]

It looks like there is a killed polio vaccine. You might want to ask your doctors about it. Live vaccines are usually advised against.

[Freckle1000]

I've always been given priority to flu vaccines ( dunno wether they're live ) but I've always understood this to be important as I'm immuno suppressed - along with autoimmune cells not exactly doing what theyre meant to. This year I was given early priority to a new strain of flu vax that was in short supply.....Its always been an important annual necessity.

[Wendy39 in reply to Freckle1000]

The flu vaccine.isn’t live.

[Freckle1000 in reply to Wendy39]

🙃 Thankyou - I wasnt quite sure.

[Wendy39 in reply to Freckle1000]

No problem x

[KayHimm in reply to Freckle1000]

Flu vaccines are not live, so good that you get it, Freckle. Yes, when there is a shortage you would be on the priority list because of risk of flu complications.

Xk

[Sara_A]

Polio vaccine is given as a combination vaccine in a diptheria/tetanus and polio vaccine all in one these days and is not a live vaccine.

[Meg52]

I’m on mycophenolate and everything I read tells you not to have vaccinations while taking it. I would contact the lupus clinic and ask their advice just to be on the safe side. Xx

[Meg52]

I forgot to mention that the flu vaccine is advised though. Meg x