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Originally Posted by Hopeful
The thing that scares me most about a BMT is the increased risk for infection even years later. How do people mitigate the risk of infection if they have young children (a.k.a germ factories) running around?
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When you are undergoing a bone marrow transplant, your white count may temporarily be very low, putting you at risk if you get an infection while you are in the hospital.
However, a successful transplant is a cure for the bone marrow failure disease so after recovering from the transplant procedure your blood counts should return to normal. As you mention above, there can be other long-term issues like GVHD, but risk of infection should not be one of them.