Re: One Autistic Son bit the other and no tetnus shot

[Guest guest]

I've seen some seriously long threads about this before. From what's been said, it's pretty hard to get tetanus....You'd have to get a deep puncture wound, get barn animal waste in the wound and not allow it to bleed at all. Maybe someone can validate or discredit that???

To: mb12 valtrex Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 7:55:16 PMSubject: Re: One Autistic Son bit the other and no tetnus shot

I'm going to say that only you can make that decision.

But I highly doubt your kids have tetanus. While certainly not impossible, I would say the odds are against it.

Cheryl

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~@midian42~

Hi, one of my sons bit his brother and neither of them have had their tetnus shot. I didn't want them to have the shot but my pediatrician told me if they got cut or bitten they would need the shot. Is that true, I really don't want him to have the shot but if he needs it I will.Thanks Dianne

[Guest guest]

Just to clarify, I took someone to an emergency room once when they were bit by another person and they were given a tetanus shot for it. Also, they have single dose tetanus shots. Adults are "suppose" to have them every 10 years, they are also required in some lines of work and they are not given a combination dpt vaccine, they are given a tetanus vaccine.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerrySender: mb12 valtrex Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:55:44 -0800 (PST)To: <mb12 valtrex >ReplyTo: mb12 valtrex Subject: Re: One Autistic Son bit the other and no tetnus shot For a human bite, no tetanus shot is necessary. The tetanus virus/bacteria cannot live inside mouths of mammals. Also, the tetanus shot is not a separate shot: it also has Diphtheria and Pertussis (whooping cough) combined.I hope your son is okay.Subject: One Autistic Son bit the other and no tetnus shotTo: mb12 valtrex Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 3:41 PM Hi, one of my sons bit his brother and neither of them have had their tetnus shot. I didn't want them to have the shot but my pediatrician told me if they got cut or bitten they would need the shot. Is that true, I really don't want him to have the shot but if he needs it I will.Thanks Dianne

[Guest guest]

Tetnus is found in horse manure.

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> When I was pregnant and in my OB's office, someone had gotten cut and was

> pregnant and was phoning my OB to ask if it was safe to have a tetanus shot

> while pregnant. I heard the OB talking to the ER on the phone and she said

> it wasn't worth the risk because to contract tetanus, you would have to have

> an open cut, have animal feces on the wound and not wash it. After she got

> off the phone, she said that it was more common in days when everyone farmed

> because people would sometimes leave tools in the field and step on it, and

> there would be animal manure on the fields and people would continue working

> sometimes when their shoe was punctured and they had an open cut and

> continued walking around in the field with manure spread on the soil.

>

[Guest guest]

There are several, depending on age.

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> " Tetanus " shot is DT, diptheria and tetanus. No Pertussis (at least for

now)...