{"id":161073,"date":"2023-03-26T16:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/neutropenic-precautions-5-dos-and-donts-for-this-cancer-treatment-side-effect"},"modified":"2023-03-26T16:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:29:14","slug":"neutropenic-precautions-5-dos-and-donts-for-this-cancer-treatment-side-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/neutropenic-precautions-5-dos-and-donts-for-this-cancer-treatment-side-effect","title":{"rendered":"Neutropenic precautions: 5 dos and don\u2019ts for this cancer treatment side effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutropenic-precautions-5-dos-and-donts-for-this-cancer-treatment-side-effect.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may already know that it\u2019s important to wash your hands, wear a face mask and avoid sick people while neutropenic.<\/p>\n<p>But is there anything else you should \u2014 or should not \u2014 be doing to avoid infections when you\u2019re immunocompromised by a low white blood cell count during or after cancer treatment?<\/p>\n<p>We spoke with internal medicine expert <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.mdanderson.org\/profiles\/carmelita_escalante.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carmen Escalante, M.D.,<\/a> for insight. Here are five precautions she shares with immunocompromised patients and their caregivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may already know that it\u2019s important to wash your hands, wear a face mask and avoid sick people while neutropenic. But is there anything else you should \u2014 or should not \u2014 be doing to avoid infections when you\u2019re immunocompromised by a low white blood cell count during or after cancer treatment? We spoke [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}