Can I get tetanus if I accidentally step on a rust nail?

When I was a child, when my family saw me running around barefoot, they would always say, “Don’t be barefoot!” Beware of tetanus from a nail.] The elders did not know exactly what tetanus was. As a young man, I just felt that it was a very serious disease that could cause people to die. After a long time, I saw iron nails and steel needles in what, and subconsciously they were linked with tetanus. Even when I saw Mammy sticking a needle into Lagerstroemia indica in < < Princess Huanzhu > >, I would worry that Lagerstroemia indica would get tetanus and die. When I grew up, I found that I was not the only one who had this Read More …

Do you want tetanus if you are bitten by a rabbit?

Recently, I received a phone call from a mother, saying that the child was bitten by a rabbit and the doctor asked her to be vaccinated with drugs to prevent tetanus. However, when she was allergic to domestic drugs, the doctor recommended her to be vaccinated with imported drugs. So the mother went all over the world looking for imported drugs to prevent tetanus. I can feel from the phone that the mother is very worried. I am also worried, worried that the clinician’s treatment of trauma has fallen into a vicious circle of mechanical thinking and over-treatment. In fact, this kind of situation does not need tetanus! Why? Is what tetanus? The clinical manifestation of tetanus is cramp and Read More …