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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
What conditions are not contraindications to vaccination?

  • The following conditions are NOT contraindications to routine immunization:
    • Family history of any adverse reactions following immunization.
    • Previous history of the disease (with the exception of BCG for people who have evidence of past exposure to tuberculosis).
    • Contact with an infectious disease.
    • Premature birth.
    • Stable neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy and Down's syndrome.
    • Asthma, eczema, or hayfever.
    • Mild self-limiting illness without fever, e.g. runny nose.
    • Undergoing treatment with antibiotics or locally acting (e.g. topical or inhaled) steroids.
    • Child's mother or someone in the household being pregnant.
    • Currently breastfeeding or being breastfed.
    • History of jaundice after birth.
    • Under a certain weight.
    • Being over the age recommended in the routine childhood immunization schedule.
    • Personal history of febrile convulsions or epilepsy.
    • Close family history (parent or sibling) of febrile convulsions or epilepsy.
    • Being a sibling or close contact of an immunosuppressed individual.
    • Recent or imminent elective surgery.
    • Imminent general anaesthesia.
    • Unknown or inadequately-documented immunization history.
Basis for recommendation
  • These recommendations are based on published expert opinion from the medical literature [DH, 2006c].

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