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Originally Posted by sues
I'm wondering if you can take vitamins when your in isolation for a transplant and get all the wicked medicine?
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Sues,
What you can and should take is up to the transplant doctor. During the transplant, the goal is to get you through the transplant process. During the transplant recovery, the goals are to keep you safe and give you the best chance of a complete and timely recovery. If vitamins help with those goals, they are quite appropriate.
Keep in mind that good general eating habits, such as getting fresh fruits and vegetables or avoiding empty calories, take a temporary backseat to critical health needs during a transplant. Fresh fruits and vegetables may not be safe for the immunosuppressed so those may be temporarily out of the diet. And a patient who had chemo drugs may not be able to stomach anything other than sweets at first, and that's OK. If vitamins can help and the patient is able to take them, a doctor may be the one to recommend them.