Ok, so I'm a non-vaxxing Momma. My son is not vaxed and now that I have researched vaccinations, I will not take another vax unless my research has shown some amazing benefit to overshadow the risks...
Anyway...my son has had splinters and wounds and I never feared tetanus with him. I feel I know enough about tetanus to not worry about him and that I'd go for the TiG if a wound seemed like a true risk.
However, my husband has thrown me for a loop. He just took a job at a metal fabrication plant. His job is to go out to the fields (where the finished jobs are) and run a sander thing over the rusty spots on the metal to prep them for painting. He is frequently getting shards of metal in his arms. Some are puncture wounds, some are cuts/scrapes. The other day part of the sander brush punctured into his arm about 3/4" I know rusty metal/metal causing tetanus is more of a cliche...but the fact that he's out in fields where who-knows-what could be on that metal, has gotten me thinking. My husband is a healthy nearly 30 y/o in great physical condition with no circulatory problems.
Logic tells me that there is little risk, but yet he is doing this 50 hours a week, so now I'm wondering if maybe he should just get a tetanus booster. He wants one. I'm torn between research and concern.
If it were me, I wouldn't get the booster, but I am having a hard time with this decision for him. I am glad that he is talking to me first instead of running out and getting the shot...he's not as convinced as I am about not vaccinating our son, but trusts my research.
Any thoughts, opinions? Thanks.
Anyway...my son has had splinters and wounds and I never feared tetanus with him. I feel I know enough about tetanus to not worry about him and that I'd go for the TiG if a wound seemed like a true risk.
However, my husband has thrown me for a loop. He just took a job at a metal fabrication plant. His job is to go out to the fields (where the finished jobs are) and run a sander thing over the rusty spots on the metal to prep them for painting. He is frequently getting shards of metal in his arms. Some are puncture wounds, some are cuts/scrapes. The other day part of the sander brush punctured into his arm about 3/4" I know rusty metal/metal causing tetanus is more of a cliche...but the fact that he's out in fields where who-knows-what could be on that metal, has gotten me thinking. My husband is a healthy nearly 30 y/o in great physical condition with no circulatory problems.
Logic tells me that there is little risk, but yet he is doing this 50 hours a week, so now I'm wondering if maybe he should just get a tetanus booster. He wants one. I'm torn between research and concern.
If it were me, I wouldn't get the booster, but I am having a hard time with this decision for him. I am glad that he is talking to me first instead of running out and getting the shot...he's not as convinced as I am about not vaccinating our son, but trusts my research.
Any thoughts, opinions? Thanks.
