@Wishful Wow, I had not heard that re: new research showing that tetanus shots are good for 60 yrs! Do you have a link for that? I would love to read it. Thanks for the info.
Depends how much one is outside, And how badly you seem to react to a booster.
Here’s an account to someone who was never poisoned by the horrible tetanus vaccine: It hadn’t yet been invented. Seems to be a friend of the family telling the story..
“I lived on a farm, as a young girl...I remember my mother discussing a case of tetanus that the son of the farmer had contracted from a small cut caused by a rusty piece of farm equipment. The young man suffered horribly, with spasms so terrible they broke his bones and he screamed in agony in the hospital. His back muscles contracted so hard, his head was bent backward and almost touched his buttocks. This was back in the late 1950s. The hospital staff could only try to make him comfortable, but his mother said there wasn't much they could do but watch him suffer and listen, in distress, to his screams. He died a horrifying death, a young man in his early 20s.”
At the time this was written medicine also didn’t have the tetanus immunoglobulin as the 2nd chance fix. Still, I’d rather not have to rely on the emergency room bailing me out. I might be too sick to tell them what I have, i could get trucked to an incompetent 3rd rate ER (we have several in the city I live in) etc.
Source:
http://thesurvivaldoctor.com/2013/10/09/tetanus-shot/
Personally I would not take a chance that one or three studies floating around on the Internet happen to be correct and also happened to apply to my particular case. But you have to balance your personal degree of reaction to a tetanus booster with the amount of time you spend outside. If you had a horrible reaction to last time you got one and you’re stuck in bed all day then maybe you should skip it.
But most of all, never trust medical advice from social media ;-)