Do I recall reading that tetanus is extremely unlikely to be contracted unless a puncture wound (deep type) is sustained from an object that has been exposed to animal dung fairly recently? Like maybe a nail in a barnyard fence? pj
Marshall Dudley wrote: > > [email protected] wrote: > > Marshall: Sorry to hear about your severe laceration. Since your wound > > > was/is rather large, wouldn't it be a good idea to get the tetanus shot > > anyway. Suppose the CS does not come in contact with the entire wound then > > you would be betting on the systemic ability of CS to attack the remaining > > bacteria. According to Ivan's speculation, the window of CS's systemic > > viability is rather limited. Aren't you taking an inappropriate risk? Roger > > > > >> > > My wife has the same concerns. From all the stuff I have read recently on > vaccines, I am somewhat afraid of them. In the US only about 50 to 100 cases > of tetanus a year, so it is actually fairly rare. Death from a tetanus shot > appears to have a higher probability of death, and I suspect it would be made > totally ineffective anyway with the large amounts of CS I am taking. > > Also from http://www.babybag.com/articles/cdc_tetn.htm: > Tetanus toxoid can not act fast enough to give immunity to someone who has > been > wounded, particularly for those who are not > completely vaccinated against tetanus. There is a substance called tetanus > immune globulin (TIG) which can provide immediate > immunity, and which may be given for tetanus- prone wounds. Questionable > injuries are best examined by local physicians or > health-care providers who are trained to evaluate wounds and recommend > treatment procedures. > > So according to this, it is really too late for a shot anyway. And tetnus > when > not in the spore state is killed not only by CS, but by penicillin, which I am > grudgingly taking as well. > > Besides I dowsed on it, and got that I should not take the shot, that CS will > be all I need, and that although I do not need to take the penicillin, I won't > hurt to take it anyway. > > Thanks for your concern though, > > Marshall > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
