Breast Feeding and Heb B vaccination

[tummytickler]

Hi all
Today i had a Hep B vaccination in preparation for starting my new job.
I am still breast feeding my son who turns 2 in 3 weeks.
The nurse said that the advice is not to breast feed with the vaccine as there was no research and as i would be giving up feeding soon when i start work (which i will not!) i should just give up now.
But she said it is probably safe, there is just no research.
What should i do?
I gave him a bed time feed, very quickly, as i felt he needed it, but now feel a bit uneasy.
Any advice welcome - what would you do?

The vaccine is given directly to babies when needed, and it makes no sense to suspend or cease breastfeeding - I dont think there is any advice not to, and if there is the nurse should show you it in writing! Drugs which are injected are often safe when breastfeeding - they are injected in order to bypass the digestive system because digestion would destroy them. So any vaccine in the milk would not get processed by the baby.

toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT You can do a search on this link. Just put Hepatitis B vaccine in the search box.

You can maybe share it with the nurse, too

It's bad you have been made to feel uneasy.

Thank you tiktok - that was really helpful and you have put my mind at ease - i will continue to feed him normally tomorrow!
I was astonished that she assumed i would be giving up aswell, i dont really have any intention of doing so, and as i work 2 long day shifts followed by 2 short night and then 5 days off i will be around to feed him 7 days out of 9.
I am glad to know this as part of my new job will be to help new mothers breast feed, so i hope to learn more about this area.
thanks again