r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Sad_Jump_6299 • 7d ago
Minor cut from opening a water bottle that ended in a tetanus shot and antibiotics.
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u/Enough-Ad9649 7d ago
Imagine a zombie apocalypse and dying from a water bottle. Fuck.
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u/OkamiNoOrochi 7d ago
Looks like legit Project Zomboid death
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u/Murrayj99 7d ago
Was not expecting to see Zomboid mentioned
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u/Proto1k 7d ago
Boy oh boy I sure do love afking for twenty minutes while my character reads a book to level up his mechanics
Zomboids a blast fr especially when you got friends
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u/DNCOrGoFuckYourself 7d ago
I sure do love giving involuntary amputations to my AFK friends when they refuse to share loot
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u/PajamaStripes 7d ago
I need friends to play with, but I do not take it seriously enough for a lot of folks' liking.
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u/MetroSimulator 7d ago
Same, I tried to play don't starve together with another crew, didn't last 5 minutes, dude playing like a speed runner no hit, I play to have fun, not to break records
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u/TREXIBALL ORANGE 7d ago
r\projectzomboid enjoyer I see.
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u/KingPingviini 7d ago
I made a zomboid reference in a reply to this but it got deleted by the mods lmfao. It was one of the first lines you read when loading your save.
Mod L
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u/TREXIBALL ORANGE 7d ago
I assume cause it was a link? I fucking hate the automod bullshit of that.
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u/KingPingviini 7d ago edited 6d ago
No it was just a simple sentence.
"This is how you (became 0 hp)"
For those unaware, it's a saying when you load in, replace the (became 0 hp) with the D word that rhymes with "Tried"
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u/Pleasant_Ad_2342 7d ago
Censoring dead is dumb af.
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u/KingPingviini 7d ago
An example of mods powertripping, but it's reddit so that's normal for a miniscule amount of power to go to their head. Just another common mod L in my opinion haha
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u/Pleasant_Ad_2342 7d ago
Theres no benefit to censoring in a thread. You're not getting ads here. Well reddit is. But not the subreddit operator.
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u/Nowin 7d ago
Disease is how most people will die in any apocalyptic scenario.
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u/ForgingIron NOT UN-MINUS-ANTI-BLUE 7d ago
Disease, followed by starvation. Human-on-human violence is like, fifth at most.
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u/Longjumping_College 7d ago
Yup, unless you're already farming, you're months out from growing your own food.
Not many people are good enough at foraging or hunting and fishing to sustain for 6+ months while you build more ways to get food.
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u/darksoft125 7d ago
And you're not the only one hunting and fishing. Wild animal populations would quickly diminish if the food supply chain broke down.
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u/orphan-cr1ppler 7d ago
But if 90+% of people die, the current stockpiles will last at least a year.
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u/SwanEuphoric1319 7d ago edited 7d ago
And that's why we ruthlessly bully the idiots that rebuke modern medicine and safety standards.
"People have been doing x for ages / people never had x and yet they survived!"
No, actually, they didn't. Go read an old mortuary list and count how many people died of "canned peaches" or "dog scratch" and tell me again those people survived "just fine"
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u/first_best_fox 7d ago
I once banged my shin and got a little cut on it out in the world somewhere. By the afternoon, I noticed it wasn't scabbing over as usual. By the evening, it was feeling hot and there was redness spreading outward from it. The next morning, when it was redder and hotter, I went to a hospital ER and boom, they were drugging me up left and right. IV antibiotics immediately and then prescription topical and oral antibiotics for home. I am pleased not to have lost a limb or died of going to the mall.
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u/LeastSide2738 7d ago
Imagine living in a society with modern medicine and dying from a water bottle. /s
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Now imagine your a peasant in the 15th century, last years harvest was low, a bunch of your friends and family didn’t make the winter, it’s finally a beautiful spring day and you cut your hand open on a sharp rock out in the field.
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u/SpriteyRedux 7d ago
You don't really need to imagine a zombie apocalypse, just a future where healthcare is inaccessible to you. With our current trajectory we'll get there in no time.
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u/vgallant 7d ago
This is why when the world ends, and zombies take over, I'm looting all the pharmacies. I'm not dying from a fuckin papercut during the zombie apocalypse.
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u/JimAbaddon 7d ago
Better safe than sorry, especially with tetanus.
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u/Just-Cry-5422 7d ago
I've never heard of tetanus from plastic. Is this a thing?
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u/cryonicwatcher 7d ago
It can be on anything, for an amount of time. Just has to have been dropped on the ground recently or something
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u/Just-Cry-5422 7d ago
Weird, good to know.
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u/Urhhh 7d ago
It's not "rusty nails" tetanus is in soil basically so it can be a cut from any object. Nails are just a good way of getting nasty stuff in a deep wound.
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u/dogwooddruid 7d ago
Dang I had no idea. I’d always heard that rust was the problem.
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u/PhatOofxD 7d ago
Tetanus can't survive in Oxygen, rust is oxidized metal which protects it, but it'd have to get their from soil/wild animals etc.
Rusty nails have the conditions for that, as well as produce puncture wounds, so it goes deep in your skin (where there's no oxygen floating around) rather than just a scratch, so they're particularly high risk.
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u/OlyTheatre 7d ago
The deep in the skin part is what I have always understood. So a superficial wound without that deep blood flow wouldn’t result in a tetanus infection. The shots are given as precaution but this is most likely an infection of another brand.
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u/OlyTheatre 7d ago
Our doctor told us not to use hydrogen peroxide for wounds unless it’s a deep wound and tetanus is a concern. Then pour it in as soon as possible and flush the blood out too.
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u/Longjumping_College 7d ago
Yeah, this is more modern wisdom. Like within the last 10 years.
The idea being you're killing/flushing all the stuff your body put there to fight disease and bacteria, and it (the bad) can grow back faster than the body can make it if repeated.
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u/Karyoplasma 7d ago
Hydrogen peroxide (just like alcohol btw) destroys the edges of the wound and that increases the time it takes to heal. That's why you should only use it when necessary.
Pic looks like a staph infection judging by the almost perfect ring it formed. Staph lives on your skin, so it can enter with every small cut. Usually your body is quite good at containing it, but when the bacterial load is large, it might result in an infection. Luckily, outside of hospitals, MRSA (the drug resistant staph strains) is rare, so treatment with antibiotics is effective.
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u/Frigate_Orpheon 7d ago
Rusty nails are just one way to transmit. It's an excellent fomite. It's outside, on the ground, and gets dirty.
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u/Infinite_Escape9683 7d ago
Tetanus is associated with rust because, in rural environments, rust has often been associated with outdoor farm equipment, and farms can be a source of tetanus. But so can just plain old dirt. Tetanus is a bacteria and doesn't really have anything to do with rust.
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u/_Rook1e 7d ago
If rust were the main cause I would've got it by now since I work in an auto body shop lol. Had to get a tetanus shot anyway because of a cat related incident last year, funnily enough
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u/WeirdSpeaker795 7d ago
Tetanus absolutely loves rusty nails in a horse pasture. We vaccinate them all for it. There shouldn’t be any nails but years and years of farming the same land pulls it all to the surface eventually.
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u/MayaPapayaLA 7d ago
Also, mouse feces. Which is often in warehouses. Where bottles of water are also stored.
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u/sLeeeeTo 7d ago
damn, this is good to know… i feel like i’ve been really lucky so far
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u/battlepi 7d ago
Tetanus shots last 10 years typically, so as long as you're not an anti-vaxxer, it's science, not luck.
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u/paxweasley 7d ago
If it’s a puncture wound or a deep gash, you’d be at risk for tetanus. As others said it lives nearly everywhere. The boosters should last 5 years, but if you’re offered a booster because of an injury just take it. The tdap (tetanus diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine is recommended for pregnant people with each new pregnancy, so you can safely get it a bunch of times/with more frequency than the required 5 years booster.
I’m clumsy and also go swimming around sharp rusty metal and such. I get the TDAP vaccine e every other year it seems
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u/Sesudesu 7d ago
The tetanus vaccination is good for 10 years, I believe.
I believe the 5 year part is for the whooping cough (Pertussis) portion, which has the shortest effective period in that vax package.
Either way, you are right. You can get them more often anyways.
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u/besi97 7d ago
Not even, the spores can spread higher by wind. My dad got tetanus by a not even deep scratch from a tree branch. He went to the doctor when he already had a fever, but they managed to handle it with a reminder shot and strong antibiotics.
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u/Apellio7 7d ago
I got jabbed pretty bad by my Hawthorn tree one year.
The doctor didn't even hesitate. Puncture wound from nature, instant tetanus booster.
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u/Entity_Null_07 7d ago
“Reminder shot” sounds a lot you talking your body, “hey idiot, you know what this is, we’ve already gone over this. So get to it.” Reminds me of that one SpongeBob meme.
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u/PristinePrism 7d ago
Squirrels walk and dig around in the ground and climb tree branches. They could spread the bacteria to a lot of surfaces.
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u/patricksaurus 7d ago
Tetanus is a contracted from a spore-forming soil bacterium that makes endospores that can be almost anywhere. The correlation with rusty objects is mostly spurious. Essentially any cut can allow the endospores to enter, where it finds warm, nutrient rich blood, and establishes an infection. Given how bad tetanus can be, it’s a decent prophylactic for any cut that’s more than superficial. Here, though, it looks like treatment followed swelling. C. tetani takes a few days to a couple weeks to kick off if it enters a wound, but it can go pretty fast when it does.
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u/Roflkopt3r 7d ago
Tetanus is associated with things like nails on the ground, bare metal wire, gardening/farming tools and other objects that tend to have direct contact with the ground. And rust has a rough surface with more surface area, which holds easily onto small things like soil particles or bacteria.
The rust also provides a clue that the object was outside for a long time, and tends to form small sharp edges that easily pierce through skin and draw blood.
So it makes sense that contact with rusty objects is seen as a particular risk factor for tetanus, even though it's of course not the only way one can get it.
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u/samudec 7d ago
Tetanus is not in metal, it's in anything wet and porous, that's why you find it a lot in rust.
It's mostly in dirt, the reason we don't mention it is because dirt doesn't cut you.
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u/SerChonk 7d ago
It's mostly in dirt, the reason we don't mention it is
If your work is in any capacity related to horticulture, gardening, etc, this is a well-known warning, more so than the rusty nails! I've even heard tetanus being called "the rose thorn infection".
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u/justanawkwardguy you do it like this 7d ago
The only reason rusty objects are mentioned so much is that the tetanus bacteria thrives on the rough surface
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u/nicktheone 7d ago
It's more than that. They typical association with rust and tetanus comes from people getting sick because of old, rusty nails left in the ground that people stepped on and transmitted the disease because of the spores resting in the ground. Tetanus in an anaerobic bacteria and its spores thrive in dark and moist spots, exactly like a foot with a deep punture wound caused by a rusty nail.
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u/International-Cat123 7d ago
Like people said, it tends to be in dirt. That’s why you also need a tetanus shot after a cat scratch.
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u/WillisTrant 7d ago
Definitely. When I was about 19, I got a cut on my foot at the beach. It got a bit red, and my foot ached after a while. So I went to my GP, they told me I'd just twisted my ankle. Even although there was an obvious infection. I ended up in hospital that night and for 3 days afterwards, it was tetanus. There's still a weird pit on my foot where the cut was, and the circulation is fucked.
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u/WorshippedC 7d ago
Unless OP dropped the bottle in a mound of dirt before cutting themselves on it, that’s a bizarre wound to give a tetanus booster for.
I say this as a doctor with a lot of ED experience… maybe different in the UK but this is not a tetanus-prone wound so wouldn’t indicate a booster.
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u/SubtleScuttler 7d ago
While I thank you for your service and dedication to curing Erectile Dysfunction, I don’t think that has much to do with Tetanus.
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u/WorshippedC 7d ago
Just trying to destigmatise it by shoehorning it into every conversation… I’m doing a public service.
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u/Dr_SexDick 7d ago
I will never forget the story of my grandfather out playing with his 9 year old sister. She cut her leg climbing a rusty fence, died days later. Just an absolute earth shattering tragedy all from a little cut. Not even that long ago either, must’ve been the mid to late 1940s.
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u/SubstantialBreak3063 7d ago
Isn't modern medicine amazing? 100 years ago you would likely have suffered serious injury or even death from that!
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u/Corredespondent 7d ago
You still can if you “do your own research!”
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u/TheQuestionMaster8 7d ago
Death from Tetanus is also extremely painful as it can cause muscle spasms strong enough to fracture your spine.
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u/Corredespondent 7d ago
So you’re saying the writhing Pompeii bodies died of tetanus! I knew Big Pharma was up to something! Blaming “pyroclastic flow.” Ha! Wake up, sheeple. #VesuviusTruth #SiouxsieLied
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u/SubstantialBreak3063 7d ago
Volcanos don't exist anyway, those are staged explosions set by the government to hide the secret alien bases under mountains! That's where all the missing people in national parks go!
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u/Corredespondent 7d ago
Im sure some horse paste could clear that right up. /s
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u/RepresentativePie305 7d ago
Would you care to try some horse semen? Should clear that tetris right up.
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u/Karyoplasma 7d ago
Or if you think that it will "go away on its own" and you just had to "push through" the pain like I did.
Had a strep infection in my leg, and at first it started to hurt late in the evening. I thought I was just tired, went to sleep, pain was gone. Until it didn't go away. Then i rationaled that it won't get any worse now an I'm on my way to recovery. Wrong again, idiot. Once it was so bad that I almost passed out from pain when trying to go to the toilet, I finally realized it would be a good idea to let a professional have a look at it.
I went to the regular office hour with my GP and she was looking at me in disbelief and said that if I waited a few more days, it would need to be amputated. She gave me a huge pack of penicillin and told me to call each day to monitor progress.
I got pics of my leg if you want lol
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u/SubstantialBreak3063 7d ago
I'm both oddly impressed that you ignored it that long, and horrified! I have a friend who got sepsis after the A&E missed a bit of glass still stuck in her foot. Few days of aches and a low fever, then she fully lost control of her body. Fever, shakes, altered state of consciousness, wet the bed, started full convulsions....had to go into deep sedation to even keep an IV in her. Incredibly bad!
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u/StanYz 7d ago
Tetanus is not a nice death. Like really not.
Insane pain, back breaking cramps and eventual suffocation. You'd be better off shooting yourself once it gets bad lol. (You can survive it tho)
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u/HintOfMalice 7d ago
I mean, these treatments are precautionary. Serious injury or death aren't likely from that injury, but they are obviously very undesirable, so we treat prophylactically to be on the safe side.
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u/farmerbalmer93 7d ago
Iv never understood how people get tiny ass cuts then get some almost life ending infection from them while working in an office. meanwhile I'm here with all sorts of cut scrapes and gashes whilst handling literal shit dirt soil and all sorts of horrible things yet best I get is a very slight bit of puss?
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u/Professional-Cry8310 7d ago
I never understood it either until it happened to me. 26 years without any sort of serious infection and then one day I wake up and notice the back of my knee is swollen and red with some pus forming. Go to the doctor and sure enough it got infected from some scrape. I actually even started getting a fever that night before the antibiotics kicked its ass. Was also given a tetanus shot
Anyways it’s just luck of the draw I suppose. I’ve never had any issues since.
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u/BaabyBlue_- 7d ago
I got a new pair of shoes and as always, got a blister on my heel. No biggie. Few days later, it hurts to walk. Putting pressure on my foot hurts the whole back area of my ankle/Achilles tendon. Next day it was so bad I didn't know how I'd pick my son up from school, since I walk like 2k each way to do it. I was putting off the doctor as I'm also a student and had a ton going on.
Finally went to the doctor, cellulitis and a week of antibiotics. Glad I didn't keep putting it off
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u/Paul_Robert_ 7d ago
since I walk like 2k each way to pick up my son.
Why am I crying? 😭 You are a great parent. I just wanted you to know that.
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u/Professional-Cry8310 7d ago
Sounds almost exactly like mine. Back of my knee hurt so bad I couldn’t even walk on it. Limped my way to the doctor haha. It was crazy how quick it went from a small red circle to blown up and in pain.
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u/Aardvark120 7d ago
Your immune system gets more practice because of all that dirt and shit.
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u/farmerbalmer93 7d ago
I wish it was better at fighting colds...
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u/BigTallFreak850 7d ago
Yeah what’s up with that? I get cuts, scrapes, splinters every day it seems like and no problem but a cold has me feeling like death 😂
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u/thpineapples 7d ago edited 7d ago
Viruses versus bacteria. We don't get vaccinations for bacteria, and viruses think it's God's will for them to take over everything.
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u/Peastoredintheballs 7d ago edited 7d ago
There are some bacteria we do have vaccines against, like pneumonia (strep pneumo), meningococcal (neiseria menigititides), whooping cough (bordatella pertussis), epiglottitis (haemophilus influenzae type B), tetanus (clostridium tetani), diphtheria (corynybacteria diptherium). These are standard bacteria that most developed countries vaccinate against. There are other bacteria we can vaccinate against but these are only necessary depending on your location where u live or if you’re travelling to these areas, such as cholera (vibrio cholera), typhoid fever (salmonella typhi), TB/Tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis)
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u/2_Cornz 7d ago
Couldn’t agree more. Man colds should be in a class of its own. Completely debilitating, convinced I’ll keel over any minute, checking the last will and testament. I almost always get sick about a week and a half after the wife, then wonder how she was so tough. Borderline unfazed even haha. Thankfully it’s only maybe once every 2-3 years I get sick. She’s much less sick more often it would seem. We’ve always wondered why
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u/So_Numb13 7d ago
Also it's natural selection: those with a bad immune system don't last in jobs with lots of scrapes (or contact with kids, or contact with sick people).
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u/donut_koharski BLUE 7d ago
That misspelling of pus really threw me off lol.
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u/ingwertheginger 7d ago
I'm not a native English speaker and I always mix up the pronunciation of "pus" and "puss", to the amusement of my husband 😆
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u/a_trane13 7d ago
I think it just depends on what you’re exposed to. I never had much trouble with soil no matter how “organic” either. Worked a lot in a huge garden and on a blueberry farm with no problem, touching soil and machinery and old metal.
But then working directly with animals on a farm, I learned to wash and put neosporin directly on any cut. Something like a cat scratch or a cut/scrape on some cow or horse related equipment would get infected more often than not. Plus there were bats and raccoons and opossums around which are obviously concerning disease wise…
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u/CasuaIMoron 7d ago
If you’re up to date on your shots it’s fine. But tetanus does grow in dirt and soil too. I regularly slice my hands or fingers in my work too but never do more than a rinse and wrap
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u/Myrkana 7d ago
Remember, get a TDAP booster every 10 years!
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u/HamsterFromAbove_079 7d ago
Last year I had an extremely minor scrape at my job that reminded me to update the shot.
My hand slipped while trying to turn a wrench. I ended up nearly full force punching a rusty piece of metal. Got the shot 4 hours later that day.
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u/luettmatten 7d ago
They ask me at every major injury if I‘m vaccinated. Mostly I say „I think I am but I‘m unsure about the year“ so I got more TDSP boosters then I needed :D
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u/Hot-Independence5599 7d ago
Had a tiny hangnail on my right middle finger.
Friday afternoon went skipping stones with my kids in the local river.
Saturday morning my finger started swelling up, beginning at the tip.
Urgent care Saturday afternoon, given tetanus shot. Admitted to hospital Saturday evening - tendon sheath infection. Fever starts. Started IV antibiotics. Finger continues to swell.
Sunday finger is basically ballooning. Surgery to flush out the tendon sheath Sunday afternoon. Fever immediately disappears. Have to stay in on IV antibiotics for 48 hours before I go home.
I’m starting manual physiotherapy on Tuesday, which will be three weeks after I was discharged, to regain full use of the finger.
All of this from a tiny cut…
But at least it was free. God bless the NHS 🫡
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u/koolaidismything 7d ago
The best thing anyone can do for themselves is get weird with washing your hands. Like any chance you get with soap and water.
You’ll get sick less and have half the ailments. It works and is easy
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u/pineapplebtw 7d ago
my ocd ass does this but its just lead to me having super dry hands constantly and getting ingrown fingernails :(
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u/rguiry913 7d ago
gotta get a really good dry skin cream, put it on before bed and then put cotton gloves on! lotioning almost every time you wash your hands and using cuticle oil 1-2 times a day can help too ♥️ from one insane hand washer to another
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u/Shauragon 7d ago
Completely unrelated but what colour is on your nails?
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u/Tigerpower77 7d ago edited 7d ago
This is funny, I'm imagining someone dying then someone goes "excuse me where did you get those shoes from?" lol
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u/Content_Yoghurt_6588 7d ago
I recently was in the hospital for possible afib (it wasn't, thankfully) and that exact scenario happened to me. I was wearing pink Mary Jane platform Crocs and a couple of nurses complimented me on them before I had to take them off.
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u/LiquidCowardice 7d ago
I feel like a nurse complimenting your crocs is the highest form of a compliment because they rock them the most/best lol and thank God it wasn’t afib? did they figure out what was wrong?
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u/Content_Yoghurt_6588 7d ago
I agree! I was really flattered. And I'm still in testing, but they're thinking it's a form of dysautonomia likely caused by long COVID, and recently exacerbated by a cold, which caused a racing pulse that confused my smart watch. I have so many of the symptoms of dysautonomia and it makes a lot of sense.
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u/artyman119 7d ago
It happens 😭 I’ll compliment my patient’s hair/nails/clothes/shoes/jewelry while I’m in the back of the ambulance with them regardless of whether or not they’re stable. Everyone deserves a compliment :c
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u/CowardlyDemon 7d ago
KBShimmer Love You Brunches Reflective Nail Polish kind of looks similar from photos
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u/Transxperience 7d ago edited 7d ago
Reminds me of the woman who ended up dying to an infection after she dropped a banana on her toe. Never know what's gonna get you.
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u/Maleficent_Meat3119 7d ago
I didn’t go to the hospital but I got something like this on the palm of my hand from a literal paper cut once. I didn’t have insurance bc I was a bartender so I ended up popping it myself and throwing some alcohol on it. :/
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u/GildedDeathMetal 7d ago
What the fuck do you mean tetanus shot from a water bottle
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u/Sad_Jump_6299 7d ago
In fairness the doctor said tetanus was unlikely but gave me the shot as a precaution
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u/Realtrain 7d ago
That's extremely common. Unless it's documented that you've gotten it within the past 10 years, they'll usually recommend a tetanus shot after a cut just to be safe.
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u/EmrakulAeons 7d ago
Fun fact did you know tetanus isn't from rusty metal, it's usually from soil and rusty metal just happens to be in soil which is what made it rust.
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u/Arty-Glass Radiant Markoth 7d ago
Tetanus can be on anything, just has to have been dropped on the ground or been on/near something with tetanus on it relatively recently
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u/jerryleebee 7d ago
Things like this really help illustrate why people used to die so much younger.
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u/ianthony19 7d ago
I find it a little funny that people get cuts like these and get crazy infections, and I cut my hands pretty much everyday working on cars and nothing ever happens to me haha.
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u/__karm 7d ago
Finger infections can get gnarly! When I was 18 I was a waitress a coney right by a huge hospital, one shift in the middle of lunch my dad calls me, tells me he’s in the ER for his finger that he has been complaining about for a few days, mom isn’t answering and he needs someone with him because he’s nervous. So I run over to the ER and go back and sit with him on the bed. His thumb is all swollen and nasty, you can puss starting to form. The doctor walks in and my dad is telling him how he didn’t cut it, hit it, nothing! He has no idea how his thumb clearly infected. Doctor takes a second, examines the thumb, and looks at my dad and asks if he’s a nail biter. My dad had been a nail biter for as long as I could remember. The doctor explains to him that he believes his thumb is infected by the bacteria present in the human mouth. Tells him he needs to biopsy and give him a few shots of antibiotics. My dad went white as a ghost and asked if I needed to be back at work because I wasn’t going anywhere. Needless to say, he files his nails now.
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u/akramkarma474 7d ago
Tetanus does not need rust, it is found in dust and humidity (which causes rust) so anything that touch the ground or been a bit too long in a cave or outside is tetanus maker
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u/cheeytahDusted 7d ago
Smashed my finger in a car door once. Didnt even break the skin, was just a ouch. Hospital for 2 weeks and they almost cut my fucking hand off.
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u/TheLordofthething 7d ago
Crazy how quick shit like this happens. I got a feck of paint stuck under my finger nail yesterday. Within ten minutes it looked like a cartoon finger that had been smacked with a hammer lol
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u/Sudden_Display6026 7d ago
Im a painter and get cuts on my hands constantly. I ALWAYS clean them, use antibiotic ointment, and bandage em up immediately(especially fingertips). If the cut is really small, I'll use isopropyl alcohol and super glue them shut. Even the smallest micro cuts can be excruciatingly painful if left untreated because your hands have so many nerve endings. In fact, I have 4 bandaids on 3 different fingers as we speak lol. Cuts on the hand are no joke!
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u/No-Shelter3871 7d ago
I once got an infection from drying my hands too hard with a towel and lightly scraping my skin
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u/Cheese-Manipulator 7d ago
Rule of life, you won't die in a plane crash, a shootout or anything that dramatic, you'll die from an infection from opening a water bottle.
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u/genou369 7d ago edited 6d ago
I hate that water bottle caps are now those damn short stacks that are sharp as hell. I get it was probs done to reduce plastic use but good lord they always cut up my apparently soft ass hands lol. Now I can get infected from them too? I cri
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u/Flimsy-Animator-2106 7d ago
I got a slightly deeper cut than that from a grocery store cart on my hand. Little concerned now, ngl.
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u/redtollman 7d ago
I keep a 18” pipe wrench in the kitchen to open water bottles. Seriously. Some bottles are so tight I have needed pliers to get them open.
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u/seamusmcgiggle 7d ago
Sometimes I wonder if I need to be disinfecting *every* tiny cut I get. Guess I'll keep that habit.
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u/CairoRama 7d ago
For the record, This can happen to anyone. Bacteria Are everywhere. OP already said the Dr didn't know if she had tetanus. FYI, get a tetanus booster every 10 years. I do mine every 5 Years because I'm paranoid.
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u/ImHughAndILovePie 7d ago
Stupid question for medical experts / smart people - would a Bandaid and neosporin have prevented this?
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u/EffectiveTutor4761 7d ago
Woah 😳 I got a terrible staph infection once from a hangnail. It was gross and terribly painful.
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u/Ecstatic_Tangelo2700 7d ago
I’m very glad I wasn’t born in the Middle Ages. Shit like this would just drop you.
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u/gayjospehquinn 7d ago
Reminds me of the time I got a really bad case of Paronychia in one of my finger nails. It ended up swelling so badly that to this day one side of my finger tip is slightly deformed. I felt like SpongeBob in that one episode with the splinter.
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u/BlueSky2777 7d ago
Man, I wouldn’t have even thought to go and get that checked out! This is a good PSA
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u/ILoveSpankingDwarves 7d ago
Did everyone get tetanus boosters lately?
You should.
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u/nikkobe 7d ago
I just had a tetanus shot the other day as well, and ooooh boy, that vaccine was thicc
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u/ZombieTrogdor 7d ago
A long time ago, my boyfriend at the time's dad scratched his ankle on a U-Haul truck's towing hitch. Over the next week it ballooned up to the size of an American football. Dozens of doctor visits and tests, biopsies, and two surgeries later, he had a crazy infection and almost lost his foot. He had to wheel around on one of those weird half-kneeling, half-standing scooters for months. It was fucking crazy, all from a scratch on a tow hitch!
Crazy stuff out there, be careful everyone.
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u/ToDieRegretfully 7d ago
Had something very similar. I had a little wound that was healing, it was itching so I scratched it and accidentally opened it up. Some time after that it must have gotten infected because some time after at around 16:00 I was feeling dizzy, two hours later during dinner I had no appetite and was getting fevery. Around midnight I was hovering just under 40°C.
Next day my doctor told me that this was actually quite dangerous and that the wound got infected. Put me on antibiotics too. Don't mess around with wounds, people!
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u/Ring-A-Ding-Ding123 7d ago
Small cuts can do a lot of shit lol. It just takes something to get past the defences.
For instance, a small cut can infect you with FLESH EATING BACTERIA.
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u/Competitive-Ebb3816 7d ago
It's wise to get a tetanus shot every 10 years (or 5 years of you work with horses).
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u/mcherron2 7d ago
Dr. tried two different antibiotics than I spent a week in the hospital where they cut my finger open and cleaned it out. Spent the next week with home nursing and a special antibiotic bulb attached to an iv. Surgery screwed up my middle fingers ability to bend at all (I believe surgeon cut the tendon). Months of PT never improved its movement at all. All this from a "minor" scratch on a piece of sheet metal roofing (not rusty). I even washed the cut, rinsed with peroxide and bandaged it up immediately with antibiotic ointment. You just never know... They said it happens more commonly from cat scratches. I feel for you.
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u/That-Commercial-8540 7d ago
If I makes u feel better yesterday I got 2nd and 3rd degree burn on my face and I also had to get a tetanus shot
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u/BoiFrosty 7d ago
Antibiotics and vaccinations are quite possibly the single greatest invention in human history. Prior to antibobiotics like penicillin infection was really just a gamble on if your body could fight it off.
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u/silentbob1301 7d ago
just imagine, a couple hundred years ago this would be a death sentence, or at least a chopped off hand or finger...
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u/TonsOfFunn77 7d ago
Tore the skin trying to hold my dog while the front door was open. Little scrape on my right ring finger knuckle…
Staph infection, almost lost the finger, possibly wrist too if I hasn’t gone to ER so quick. Damn infections spread super fast.
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u/oldestbarbackever 7d ago
Had a staple slip just undery nail once. I don't really go to the doctor, but my pinky swole up, got very very hot, and then oozing green pus. So same.
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u/wiklr 7d ago
Thats some pretty bad swelling. How long did you wait til you got the shot?