Tetanus & gardeners

[Primrose]

Afraid I'm one of the people who haven't been very active on here recently (as mentioned in "Will Ye No Come Back Again? in another threat) as I seem to have been rather busy elsewhere.

As I regularly garden & weed without gloves and often suffer the odd skin abrasion/cut etc, I've just asked my surgery for a long overdue tetanus injection booster. At first they refused saying that they no longer gave them except in exceptional circumstances for skin cuts as the Tetanus jab is now a combined one for polio & dyptheria and is only given when people are travelling abroad to countries where these diseases are still rife. I did more or less insist & have now been given a jab but wonder whether other gardeners have had a similar problem keeping their tetanus innoculations up to date?

[peter]

When I last asked I was told that Tetanus boosters for UK adult residents are no longer medically required as once an adult your childhood & teenage jabs would have permanently immunised you.

[oldherbaceous]

Same here Peter, a few years ago i thought i better go and get topped up, but was told i didn't need them anymore.

But the Nurse did give give me the booster any, just for good luck.
She really is quite sadistic like that.

[snooky]

Had to have injections for various diseases when I was working because part of my duties was to maintain a hospital incineration plant,tetanus was one of them but wasn't given it because as a youngster I had been given it 3 times after various accidents so am considered immune.

[donedigging]

OH wrote


But the Nurse did give give me the booster any, just for good luck.
She really is quite sadistic like that.

Perhaps you were being a bit cheeky

[oldherbaceous]

She did have nice soft hands though, not at all like them old farm girls i'm used to.