Why the heck did you get a tetanus shot? Tetanus is a bacteria that lives in dung, it cannot survive anywhere else (except in a deep wound). If you had stabbed yourself with a pitchfork shoveling manure, then I would understand, but for a burn that makes no sense at all. It is anarobic, so it will only infect deep puncture wounds where there is little oxygen. Scratches or scrapes exposed to the air have too much oxygen available.
I got my foot cut open a few years ago by some metal strapping getting caught in the lawn mower, and whipping around and cutting through my shoe. I looked at the stats on the probability of dieing from getting tetnus, and dieing from a tetnus shot. The data I looked at showed that that something like 100 times as many people die from the shot per year than from the disease. So I absolutely refused the shot when the doctor offered it. Marshall "Medwith, Robert" wrote: > I forgot to add besides 2 pain meds a tetanus shot and antibiotics, > the doctor prescribed Vitamin E and C to promote healing. Never had a > doctor actually recommend Vitamins for healing.Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Medwith, Robert > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:00 AM > To: 'cs' > Subject: CS>Burns > > Well I burned my hand with a Plasma Cutter yesterday, it > hurt like hell.I kept spraying my hand with CS and it > stoped the pain as long as it was wet.I went for treatment, > when I was done and all bandaged up pain had stoped.I wonder > if the pain stoped because of the early use of the CS.Second > degree burns between middle and first finger on left > hand.Did the CS have any thing to do with the pain > stoping.Bob >
