Tetanus question. Dh is injured

[Dar]

i am not one to panic and freek out over a paper cut but please get it checked...

i was in the garden at a friends house and she was planting her tulip bulbs and skinned her knuckle nut even a real wound right?.....

that was saturday afternoon

she called me (being a nurse) on sunday evening... her finger was ll red and swollen can i go have a look... i went... her finger was "angry" as we call it... all red and swollen i took a sharpie and marked on her skin around the area of swelling and marked the time on it ... (she did not want to go to the hospital....

her dh called me at 2am the monday morning flipping out her whole had was swollen

off to emerge we go.... when the hospital seen my marks giving a time stamp as to how fast the infection was moving they loaded her up on IV antibotics and proceeded with swabs and blood work...

6 hours later she is diagnosed with..... are you ready?.... necrotizing fasciitis..... YEP flesh eating bacteria

from a scratch...

she was on IV antibiotics for ever it seemed .. please be careful

tell him to go get it checked or we will be giving him a new nickname ... stavi (from the movie the ringer)

or stumpy

 

[StupidBird]

Thank you for the great tip with marking the perimeter with a sharpie and time/date. Now that is something practical that I hadn't heard before and will certainly keep in mind the next time somebody shows off worrisome swelling from mystery bug bites/wounds. Wow! Were they able to stop the infection in time to save body parts? eww.

 

[Dar]

they said if she would have waited till she got into see the dr (a few days) she would have lost her hand,,, they were able to save everything

 

[stephys_fluffybutts]

Your normally supposed to get one every 5 years or so..
But sometimes it ok to get it a little sooner.. Just as long that it gets put in the medical file for reference.

But yeah its best to get one if if looks bad... better safe then sorry. Call your doctor right away.
Sorry he had that happen

I had to get mine last year. My Mom was fixing something and accidently dropped a 1 1/2 inch nail on the floor and I stepped on it. Went all the way in

Was fine till I had to pull it out

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[boaz]

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Agreed on the advice. I always like that word "stat". Makes you want to jump up and do something.

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

The "flesh eating disease" is becoming more and more common, as is MRSA, or "superbugs", which can be deadly due to their drug resistant nature. Please take him to be seen- at bare minimum he needs a tetanus booster. I'm sure alot of the ladies on here wish their husbands would have came down with lockjaw at some point or another- but not the kind that accompanys tetanus

Please be safe

Terrah

 

[Oklahoma Lightning]

Get the shot
I got a puncher wound from a torn tree and just now got use of it back. It blood inside and turned black from half way to the tip of my fingers to below the wrist and into the palm. Swelled like a ballon. They had to wrap it tight to shot the bleeding. The Dr told me all person that work on the farm or have be injured recently need a shot every five years not 10. He said having the shot was the only thing that saved my hand. It same green torn can kill you.
He told me of two case in their clinic where people didn't have the shot and dead. One with a torn puncher and one with a chicken wire puncher.
He give me another shot so I am good for five more years.

 

[edselpdx]

Tetanus shot is required every 10 years, and sooner if there's an exposure. Be aware that even if the initial cut is "clean" tetanus bacteria can colonize it later if it gets dirty before it's healed. Tetanus is really nothing to mess around with, as surviving it requires an extended time in an ICU IF you will survive.

In the meantime, monitor for infection as a local non-tetanus infection is the most likely.

ed

 

[wombat]

Survival rates for people who contract full-blown tetanus are only about 30%. It's a nasty way to die, too.

There are a lot of infection risks from deep puncture wounds. Tetanus is only one of many anerobic bacteria that can colonize that sort of injury.

These sorts of injuries are one of the many reasons that life expectancies used to be decades less than they are now, only a few generations ago.

 

[Whispering Winds]

I would soak it in Epsom salts, water pretty warm. Probably should get a tetanus, bad as I hate to say it. If it just came off the roll, you might be ok, but since its been out and about . . .might have some really bad kooty on there. Keep us posted!!! I was told T. shots are good for about 10 years unless you get a really bad cut with a rusty or dirty something.