Can someone please tell me how long a kidney transplanted patient has to stay away from a baby that has had live vaccinations?
Believe it or not, I can't find this.
I has asked Transplant and they referred me to the answer a pharmacist gave which was"usually one week." Just didn't sound definite to me.
Hi,
I’m not sure about the baby vaccines but my daughter gets the live flu vaccine spray up the nose. My nephrologist told me to keep my distance for 3/4 days. The last few years she’s had it I’ve been fine. Hope this helps
Best Wishes
Tina
I have personally never heard that a transplant patient cannot be near a person that has had a live vaccine, I just know that a person that has had a transplant cannot take a live vaccine themselves.
My transplant center told me to stay away from persons who had just received a live vaccine. I cannot remember if they mentioned the exact time frame. I live alone and stay away from almost everyone, period, so I didn’t think it would be a problem.
My transplant center did not have check other peoples vaccination status. It seems almost impossible to know when you are out in the general public. They did however ask that I stay away from babies 2 and under, for I think a month. Fortunately for me, all of my kids were older then that.
I was on immune suppression for a long time before my transplant. So, we did not get any of our kids live virus vaccines. After I woke up from my transplant (which was when first really believed it was going to happen) my wife called our family members who were watching the kids and them go get all their live and attenuated vaccines. We live far enough away I had to stay near the hospital for a month. The explanation was that people shed virus from live virus vaccines for about 3 or 4 days.
So we kept live virus vaccines out of our household, but outside of that, you just have no control.
It also seemed that the transplant center was very concerned about the first month. Pretty concerned about the first 3 months. Concerned about the first 6 months. Wary about the first year. And after that, it is "just be careful. I noticed that schedule follows the step down schedule on the immune suppression.
A cancer site says this, "Highly immunocompromised patients (those receiving cancer therapy or transplant) should not handle the diapers of infants who received rotavirus vaccine for 4 weeks after the vaccination. In addition, they should avoid contact with people who develop skin lesions after receiving varicella or zoster vaccines until the lesions resolve. oncolink.org/frequently-ask...
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