Tetanus Booster?

[Willow]

That's absurd since rust means that oxygen has hit the nail. :: Oh my Heavens, Big Pharma has control over everything.

Really, everyone is exposed to tetanus in the dirt. It's the natural immunity from the dirt that ACTUALLY helps to fight against tetanus. Research it. There have been studies done in communities.

I have researched it, just came to a different conclusion is all.

Not everyone who disagrees is ignorant

[Michael]

How did you find out?
I am worried about a bad reaction. I've read where people were so exhausted they couldn't do anything but sleep for a few days after.

Sorry, just saw you wrote this.

I slipped at a pool and cut my knee open on a metal piece when I was 15. After stitching me up, the hospital have me a tetanus shot in my arm which proceeded to swell up over the next 24 hours. I went back to the ER and they told me to wear a warning bracket for the next 10 years because the next tetanus shot would probably kill me.

[TwinKristi]

I just had my shot in July when I was hospitalized for a staph infection. They said with closed wounds it's a higher chance of infection and I needed one anyway so I did it. Tetanus isn't a big worry to me really. I have declined the DTAP booster and since I don't have any young babies who haven't already been vaccinated I'm not worried. If I did it would be different and I would consider it if the parents insisted but my own son isn't vaccinated for DTAP either. My 5th son had a horrible reaction to his 4th DTAP so we decline them now. My 3rd son just had his booster and Menactra shots though and very mild site reactions.

[Neekie]

If your daycare kids are vaccinated and vaccines work, then you really have nothing to worry about whether you are vaccinated or not. Right?

The kids are not really fully protected until they have had all their shots and babies can be very vulnerable. I had german measles and got very sick at four months of age. I would hate to have them catch something from me because I did not get my vaccinations.

I used to be totally against flu shots and every year I would get so sick with the flu and I would end up with pneumonia and have to close my day care for two weeks. Well, now I am on drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and I have to get a flu shot cause the drugs have taken away a lot of my natural immunity. So since I have been getting the flu shot I haven't gotten sick with the flu. It sure seems to help.

[Blackcat31]

The kids are not really fully protected until they have had all their shots and babies can be very vulnerable. I had german measles and got very sick at four months of age. I would hate to have them catch something from me because I did not get my vaccinations.

I used to be totally against flu shots and every year I would get so sick with the flu and I would end up with pneumonia and have to close my day care for two weeks. Well, now I am on drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and I have to get a flu shot cause the drugs have taken away a lot of my natural immunity. So since I have been getting the flu shot I haven't gotten sick with the flu. It sure seems to help.

My DH is a diabetic. His natural immunities are also waning so now we ALL get immunized so we can protect him from stuff.

What a common cold does for us is 100X worse for him. I couldn't imagine what would happen if he got something worse...

[Neekie]

Yep! I have actually ended up in the hospital hooked up to IV's for a week.