Twinrix and breastfeeding

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I'm due to have my final shot of Twinrix next week (booster dose after one year). The nurse I spoke to said it was fine as not a live vaccine - opinion on the internet seems divided - so what do mumsnetters think (obviously you are more reliable than either )

Check out the manufacturers' guidance - it's on the web. They see no problem.

Check out Hepatitis A vaccine here toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT. Ditto.

thanks - that lactmed link is fantastic (despite not listing twinrix ) Are using saying that the hep a/b listings = twinrix?

I did check the manufacturers site but they had the usual not tested on breastfeeding mothers thing...

you can look it up here see page 4 and 34

They will never test it on bf women, though - no need, because they know how vaccines behave, pharmacologically speaking, and they know if it gets into the breastmilk or not (some things have a molecule that is too big to get from the blood to the milk, for instance, and other things may get into the milk but not in a way that's 'active' or not in a way that 'binds'....or in some cases, it may get in the milk but it is destroyed in the baby's digestive tract (often why some things are given as a vaccine anyway - no use giving it orally as the digestive system 'kills' it).

I have no idea if any or even all of this applied to your 'substance' but if the manufacturers say ' no problem' then there is no reason to think there might be

thanks all