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himself stabbed his finger on some chicken wire today. of course it was some with lots of chicken poo on it...

it made me thing that none of us, in my family, have had tetinus booster very recently at all. I think i was at school when i last had one...

I did approach the Drs some time ago (10years?) and said i gardened, kept animals and my tetinus was out of date.. but they said they did not do boosters any more. but that seems opposite from what other people have told me

so? do you have yours up to date?

Definitely and my doctor even asked for my vaccination certificate so he could put the booster date in his computer when I registered with him.

Unfortunately it is due next year and they bloody well hurt!

I had my last one in 2000, so the next is due 2010 - but I can't remember them ever hurting!

They hurt when they inject the liquid into you and then your arm hurts for several days later, least it did with both of us.

In the past I had tetanus and typhoid together when travelling and blamed the sore arm on the typhoid jab - until I had tetanus on its own, and found out that IT was the culprit!

Maybe not everyone suffers the same, or you are just tough, Ina!

Millymollymandy wrote: Maybe not everyone suffers the same, or you are just tough, Ina!

I don't think it's the latter!

I last got a tetanus booster 2 years ago, after taking a spill on the pavement. My knee was so badly scraped that the doctor couldn't clean all the dirt and tar out of it, so they gave me a shot and watched for infections. It healed gray.

I had a booster last year. I went mostly because I do get cuts in the garden (clumsey git that I am) but partly because my middle daughter was due a jab and the best way to get her over being scared was to go first.

The medico was delighted to see me and gave me not only tetanus but polio ("but it's extinct" said I. "Good. Let's keep it that way!" said he), diptheria and whooping cough. He told me that the latter two were making a comeback in France because adults were forming a nice reservoir of infection.

Nope, no routine boosters any more - a study last year found that provided the initial course was done properly you have lifetime immunity anyway. It's always worth getting medical attention for a deep or mucky cut though.

In theory, your doc should be able to order a blood test to verify what immunity you have (and whether that is the desired level).....I suspect in practice they just prefer to give jabs.

They definitely do boosters here as I found out when I was pregnant and my records say I haven´t had a tetanus jab since I was six........the docs were quite insistent I ought to get topped up (as I was I when I said NO), their reason? I would be putting myself at risk if I had to have a C-section......hmmmmm don´t have too much confidence in your hygiene procedures then lads

hedgewizard wrote:Nope, no routine boosters any more - a study last year found that provided the initial course was done properly you have lifetime immunity anyway. It's always worth getting medical attention for a deep or mucky cut though.

ah right.. so that ties in with what my Dr said.. I had had the course.. so that was that... unless have an accident or something.
not sure where we are with my son though. so perhaps will have to ask at Drs.

The Riff-Raff Element wrote:I had a booster last year. I went mostly because I do get cuts in the garden (clumsey git that I am) but partly because my middle daughter was due a jab and the best way to get her over being scared was to go first.

The medico was delighted to see me and gave me not only tetanus but polio ("but it's extinct" said I. "Good. Let's keep it that way!" said he), diptheria and whooping cough. He told me that the latter two were making a comeback in France because adults were forming a nice reservoir of infection.

Oh lovely. Did you get a jab for polio then? When I've had it in the past for travelling it was a few drops on a sugar cube! Shame they can't give all vaccinations like that!

I recently cut the tip of my finger off (just the skin pad at the top) on a mandolin slicer while I was cutting up carrots. There was blood everywhere (didn't stop bleeding for over an hour) and it was probably contaminated by whatever was on the carrots too. I phoned casualty just to check whether I should go or not and they didn't even mention tetanus.

I've also heard they no longer do the boosters. Which brings me to another point. Apparently, just as you can't officially get separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines nowadays, there's no such thing as a tetanus jab any more. If you have the booster, you're getting the diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine as well, just like the first baby jabs. Just something to be aware of.

Lynne

Really? Wow. I know all the evidence says that combo vaccines are safe, but I do worry about overloading the immune system.

By the way, I hope you got a good tune out of that slicer. That Captain Corelli was Welsh, did you know that? It's pronounced Cor-e-hlllli.

lsm1066 wrote:I recently cut the tip of my finger off (just the skin pad at the top) on a mandolin slicer while I was cutting up carrots.

Ouch! I've done that a few times...