So... As a fundamental immunological principle, vaccines are for healthy people, not for sick people. Vaccination, regardless of pathogen or platform, is deliberately designed to be provocative to the immune system. In fact, it is common practice in vaccine manufacture to add at least one component (the adjuvant) whose sole job is to "goose" the immune system further.
Vaccination would be completely inappropriate for someone who is so ill as to need an organ transplant. And that's all before we consider the effects of the immunosuppressive drugs she will need to be on indefinitely post-transplant.
Good luck to her. I hope she finds a way to not need organ transplantation (a grotesque approach to extending one's life).
Thank you so much Chris for your well informed and resonant comment. I agree that someone like Sheila is the last person that should be injected with who knows what.
Please note that I have just updated this post with more information, including the Fundrazr which has been set-up on Sheila's behalf.
I wish her all the best and to win. Why would you vaccinate someone so ill anyway?
If it's a vaccine that works on our immune system, then it probably shouldn't be given to someone needing an organ transplant? I might not be a doctor or scientist of any kind, but this just doesn't make sense. I bet there is no confirmed research done of the vaccine and the medication used for people after transplant? I wish her all the best and everyone else in this position.
Thank you for your comment Lorraine. I am in complete agreement with you that someone like Sheila with a highly compromised or no immune system is the last person on earth that should receive an injection of who knows what.
Please note that I have just updated this post with more information, including the Fundrazr which has been set-up on Sheila's behalf.
So... As a fundamental immunological principle, vaccines are for healthy people, not for sick people. Vaccination, regardless of pathogen or platform, is deliberately designed to be provocative to the immune system. In fact, it is common practice in vaccine manufacture to add at least one component (the adjuvant) whose sole job is to "goose" the immune system further.
Vaccination would be completely inappropriate for someone who is so ill as to need an organ transplant. And that's all before we consider the effects of the immunosuppressive drugs she will need to be on indefinitely post-transplant.
Good luck to her. I hope she finds a way to not need organ transplantation (a grotesque approach to extending one's life).
Thank you so much Chris for your well informed and resonant comment. I agree that someone like Sheila is the last person that should be injected with who knows what.
Please note that I have just updated this post with more information, including the Fundrazr which has been set-up on Sheila's behalf.
I wish her all the best and to win. Why would you vaccinate someone so ill anyway?
If it's a vaccine that works on our immune system, then it probably shouldn't be given to someone needing an organ transplant? I might not be a doctor or scientist of any kind, but this just doesn't make sense. I bet there is no confirmed research done of the vaccine and the medication used for people after transplant? I wish her all the best and everyone else in this position.
Thank you for your comment Lorraine. I am in complete agreement with you that someone like Sheila with a highly compromised or no immune system is the last person on earth that should receive an injection of who knows what.
Please note that I have just updated this post with more information, including the Fundrazr which has been set-up on Sheila's behalf.