Hi Alex,
How wonderful that your dad could get a SCT soon after dx and is ready to leave the hospital
!
You know it can be very dangerous to boost the immune system with "alternative" drugs. If you look at a very common drug for the immune system like Echinacea they tell you to not use is for diseases like leukemia because it can increase the leukemia cells.
It is true that patients often get opportunistic infections with virus and fungi after SCT. We often have these agents in our bodies before the SCT and they take over when the immune system is weak.
As far as I understand the patients have to try to avoid new infections, eat as well as possible to be able to fight infections and hope that the doctors can identify new infections at once so the patients will get effective treatment.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
70 yo, dx MDS Interm-1 May 2006, transfusion dependent, Desferal for iron overload and Neupogen for low white blood cells, asymptomatic