HPV Vaccine - Contraindications and Precautions

Contraindications and Precautions

While the use of HPV vaccines can help reduce cervical cancer deaths by two thirds around the world, not everyone is eligible for vaccination. There are some patient factors that exclude people from receiving Gardasil or Cervarix. There factors include:

  • Patients with history of immediate hypersensitivity to vaccine components. Patients with a hypersensitivity to yeast should not receive Gardasil since yeast is used in its production.
  • Patients with moderate or severe acute illnesses. This does not completely exclude patients from vaccination, it just postpones the time of vaccination until the illness has improved.

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