conditions not contraindicating vaccination

Last edited 04/2019

The following conditions are NOT contraindications to routine immunisation (in some of these situations, additional precautions may be required):

• family history of any adverse reactions following immunisation
  
  
• 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
  
  
• asthma, eczema or hay fever
  
  
• mild self-limiting illness without fever, e.g. runny nose
  
  
• treatment with antibiotics, topical and inhaled steroids
  
  
• child's mother or someone in the household being pregnant
  
  
• currently breast-feeding or being breast-fed
  
  
• history of jaundice after birth
  
  
• under a certain weight
  
  
• being over the age recommended in the routine childhood immunisation
  
  
• schedule (except rotavirus - see relevant chapter of "The Green Book")
  
  
• personal history of febrile convulsions or epilepsy
  
  
• close family history (parent or sibling) of febrile convulsions or epilepsy
  
  
• recent or imminent elective surgery
  
  
• imminent general anaesthesia
  
  
• unknown or inadequately documented immunisation history:
  • see the algorithm for vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status: https:// www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/463433/HPAalgorithm- September-2015-04b.pdf
    
    
• G6PD deficiency
  
  
• food intolerances
  
  
• interferons and other non-immunosuppressing immunomodulators

Reference:

• (1) Immunisation Against Infectious Disease - "The Green Book". Chapter 6 Contraindications and special considerations (Accessed 24/4/19)