Tetanus/puncture wounds

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Can't you just open up a small puncture woudn a little, like taking out

a splinter? This will allow you to clean it, and allow air to get into

the wound. Tetanus, if I remember correctly, is anaerobic. I've always

been in the habit, since a kid, of squeezing a puncture wound until it

bleeds, and keep squeezing it until there is no more blood, to clean it

out - especially when you are outside in the backyard and not near

soap/water to clean immediately. I have 3 1/2 acres, and can honestly

say that I NEVER run into the house to wash up when I cut myself, I do

it when I'm done with whatever I am working on (unless I happen to have

water close by). And I cut myself VERY often, I tend to be a klutz <g>

OTOH, I have horses and other livestock/animals. I went to a holstic

horsekeeping seminar at the local college a couple of years ago, and Dr.

Tobin, who is the past president of the American Holistic Veterinary

Association was a speaker. He spoke at length about the problems with

vaccinations, when someone brought up Tetanus - which supposedly is very

prevalent in horses and their living areas, and horses are prone to

puncture wounds and scrapes due to their nature. Anyway, Dr. Tobin's

response was that your horse is outside every day, continually giving

himself little scrapes and scratches and cuts and abrasions, then laying

in the dirt. He is, therefore, continually inocculating himself against

Tetanus by giving himself little teeny doses in a controlled manner,

just in his daily life.

This makes sense, and carries over when you think about what we are

doing to our immune systems by continually scrubbing everything with

disinfectants, washing our hands every time with antibacterial,

impregnating materials with antibacterials, and spraying the air we

breath with it, too. I'm not saying to be filthy and never wash or use

disinfectants, but I only use them when handling raw meat, or cleaning

up after any type of bodily secretion (be it human or animal).

This is just my 2 cents on the subject, and I wonder what others have to

say?