Are there any suggestions to any types of preventitive vaccines if any that would be of benifit in these longer OW swims? The bodies of water that I enter are not all bad...Lake Mich, finger lakes, Lake Erie, Potomac. As endurance atletes we are already a little bit immuno compromised. Plus, my insurance is changing and figured I would get caught up before the end of the year if possible. Thanks.
She said that since I had a hep. shot in the army 35 years ago, and a tetanus shot last year, I was good to go.
A vaccine against Hepatitis A did not exist 35 years ago. (Neither did one against Hep B, although you are not too likely to catch that by swimming.) The Hep A vaccine went on the market in the mid-90s. Before it became available, if you were likely to be exposed to Hep A they gave you an immune globulin shot, which went into your butt cheek and stung like pure fire and left a big welt. It was supposed to provide a few months' worth of protection.
She said that since I had a hep. shot in the army 35 years ago, and a tetanus shot last year, I was good to go.
A vaccine against Hepatitis A did not exist 35 years ago. (Neither did one against Hep B, although you are not too likely to catch that by swimming.) The Hep A vaccine went on the market in the mid-90s. Before it became available, if you were likely to be exposed to Hep A they gave you an immune globulin shot, which went into your butt cheek and stung like pure fire and left a big welt. It was supposed to provide a few months' worth of protection.
