How to prevent organ rejection
If you have received an organ transplant, it is essential that you do everything possible to lead a healthy life and try
to prevent rejection. Over time, your risk of rejecting the organ goes down, but it never actually disappears. You
will receive anti-rejection medications for the rest of your life to help prevent rejection.
Anti-rejection medications, also called immunosuppressants, work by reducing your immune system response to
unrecognized materials that enter your body. Your therapy will work to achieve an important balance between an
immune response: one that is too weak to reject your organ, but strong enough to prevent serious infections. To
achieve this balance, you may be placed on a combination of medications.