Strategies For Safe Living Following Solid Organ Transplantation

Publication Date: April 1, 2019

Last Updated: March 14, 2022

Strategies

Hands should be washed (including after gloves are used):

Before preparing food and before eating.
Before and after touching wounds (whether or not gloves are used).
Before touching mucous membranes.
After touching or cleaning up after pets and animals.
After gardening or touching plants or soil.
After changing diapers (though ideally, other family members should change diapers rather than the transplant recipient).
After touching secretions and excretions, including nose‐blowing.
AFTER touching items that have had contact with human or animal feces, (eg, bedpans, bedding, toilets, litter boxes).

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Strategies For Safe Living Following Solid Organ Transplantation