When you come for your vaccination, you will first have a personal consultation where we will ask you if you are taking medication. We assess whether the medication you are taking can affect your vaccination and decide which vaccines you can get.
Most medicinal preparations do not affect vaccination.
Use of heart, blood pressure-lowering, diabetes, antidepressant, fever-reducing and pain-relieving medications does not affect vaccination. Under normal circumstances, general blood-thinning medication is not an obstacle to intramuscular injection during vaccination.
In rare cases, antibiotic treatment against infection can affect individual vaccinations, but since antibiotics are usually only taken for a limited period, it rarely has a significant effect on the vaccination.
Immunosuppressant medication
However, there is one type of medication that affects vaccination, which is immunosuppressive medication. Immunosuppressive medications are often included in treatments for autoimmune diseases, e.g. rheumatic disorders, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, certain skin diseases, multiple sclerosis, etc. and for organ transplant recipients. Treatment of cancer is usually also with immunosuppressive drugs, in the form of chemotherapy/cytotoxicity.
If you are being treated with immunosuppressive medication, you may not, as a rule, be vaccinated with 'live weakened vaccines'.
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