Posted on 08/27/2017 12:44:13 PM PDT by Yaelle
Has a FReeper survived a serious tetanus infection? I'd love some positive stories. My dear friend was just dx'ed in an ER this morning, after being misdiagnosed for almost a week. I'm concerned. 90% live through treatment. There is no cure. You either beat the toxins or you don't. I'd like to hear any personal stories for hope.
Prayers for her welcome too. She is a strong Catholic with teenaged kids.
Once she got back home, she and her doctors found they had buried into her back and laid eggs and they kept hatching, and then she started to get weird symptoms like unable to move her neck. But no one dx'ed tetanus until today finally. She's been worse and worse. They told her the feces of these crustaceans can carry tetanus bacteria.
So horrible.
this is why people need to keep their tetanus immunization status up to date. The tetanus bacteria is common in any shovelful of dirt.
I didn’t have it but a cousin did.
With treatment, and few serious underlying health issues like heart diease or some type of autoimmune disorder.... your friend should be just fine.
Thanks. Glad your cousin made it through. My friend doesn’t have underlying heart issues. 90% make it, I keep telling myself.
Conor McGregor has locked your friend will be fine
Can you get tetanus vaccine alone without in combo with other vaccines? I’m ready to get one for my whole family.
(I think she’d rather be in his lock than where she is, ha ha ha)
She’ll be fine with a regime of good old penicillin, and debriding out the wound and cleaning it. They should give her a tetanus vaccine as part of the therapy.
Also, she’s going to want to decontaminate her home, including pets. Salt and diatomaceous earth should do it. The first will shrivel them and the other will cut their shells so the salt can shrivel them. Don’t inhale the diatomaceous earth - use a high-grade face mask and eye protection. Steam cleaning afterward to get the survivors.
http://www.fleabites.net/sand-fleas-what-are-they-and-how-do-you-get-rid-of-them/
General Reminder to anybody: tetanus only lasts 10 years. If you can’t remember when you last had one, get one.
I looked on Wikipedia (they can’t be too political on tetanus treatment) and it’s not about penicillin for treatment. It’s pretty extensive and I’m hoping not too invasive - sounds like she might be trached.
Diatomaceous earth works great for ants (need a lot of patience but you can kill whole hives of them) and dog type fleas. Good tip.
My dad, who went home to be with the Lord at 80, survived tetanus as a 9 year old.
His doctor and the hospital told my grandparents that there was no chance, so just stay with him until he passed.
They put a mouthpiece in to keep him from biting his tongue.
When he finally regained consciousness, his crooked teeth were perfectly straight from clamping down on the mouthpiece.
He had no skin left on the back of his head, or his heals from the convulsions.
Years later, when he went into the Navy during WWII, he told them he did not need a tetanus shot because he was a survivor. They did not believe him, gave him the shot, and he nearly died.
He had a great story, which medical people would shake their heads about in disbelief.
I think you can. When I had major surgery a few years back they gave me a tetanus injection, because I probably never had any since a kid. Now I know how long it’s been!
God bless to your friend and her family, pray she will work through it.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/229594-medication
#1 Appropriate antibiotic!
#2 Versed iv~ via continuous infusion to prevent convulsions and to minimize the lock jaw.
Might be best to have two docs treating or as consultants:
1>Infectious Disease doc
2>Neurologist
Funny. I just asked the mod to pull my post. LOL
Oh well.
She’ll be fine.
I cut my leg pretty deep while doing a zip line in Mexico.
Fortunately, I had my first aid kit .
I refused to see a doctor and instead rinse it 3 bottles of water, peroxide and for some reason used my saline .
Pulled the wound closed, glued it and covered with a Nexcare breathable waterproof bandage and jumped in a cenote...
She’ll be fine.
Might need to dem bass turns with some agent orange, she’ll be fine
Wow. At 9. Can’t imagine.
Interesting that after surviving it, the “hair of the dog” nearly killed him. I wonder how that worked.
Thank Gd you had your dad or you wouldn’t be here either!
yes
If I were to guess, I’d say his immune system reacted to the titer (added to his own) as it was another infection and went into over drive to kill it off.
Sad that they didn’t believe him. But he had another cat life, didn’t he?
Keep your boosters up to date. I went through a nasty bout with whooping cough a few years ago. Since I came back stateside I had not thought to get boosters. Now I do. Too soon old and too late smart.
Thank you for this inspirational true story.
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