Is the polio part of the standard child's vaccine live or not please ?

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Thanks !

not live

not any more. used to be until a few years ago.

Not any more I don't think....

The old oral was "attenuated" (i.e. alive but supposedly harmless). I think the new jab is synthetic proteins that are made in teh lab. Not a poliovirus in sight.

I could be wrong though.

No it's inactive, so not live.

Oh hurrah that's fab news.

Have been worrying about it. To cut long story short. Dh has been horribly ill and is on some nasty drugs for a loooonnngg time and one of the things they keep saying is not to come into contact with anyone who has had a live polio vaccine for 4-6 weeks. As a lot of dd's friends have been recently called up for their pre-school boosters I was worried that dd would have to have more jabs if she couldn't have the combined jab AND that we'd have to be careful about her having friends home as dd is off work for a long time.

(gets list of worries out of pocket and strikes one thing off).

sorry to hear DH is ill

Thanks TheBlonde -

As Brigitte Jones would say 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another part falls to pieces'. We've not had a good few weeks with dh in hospital (has developed some wierd rare syndrome which causes swelling - which went to his brain which was pretty scary), lost all coordination in his right hand side so struggling to walk mainly. Hopefully the cocktail of drugs is going to sort things out and some enforced rest.

How you doing ?

I've sent you a FB msg

Oral polio vaccine (which was live) isn't really given any more so I doubt you'd come into contact with that. Also the main risk from it with regards to transmission was that it was present in poo after having it, so your poorly DH would have had to be changing nappies/wiping bums or sharing food etc with someone who had had the live vaccine.

I hope he's better soon.

Thanks Sidge.