Pentaxim Std 30 Mcg/25 Mcg Injection Health Feed

I am sorry to hear about your concern but will be happy to assist you.
If you don't receive proper treatment, the toxin's effect on respiratory muscles can interfere with breathing. If this happens, you may die of suffocation. A tetanus infection may develop after almost any type of skin injury, major or minor. This includes cuts, punctures, crush injuries, burns and animal bites.
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Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids are some of the most stable vaccines in common use. They are stable at temperatures of 2 to 8°c for years, at room temperature for months, and at 37°c for weeks. At the temperature of 45°c the degradation of toxoids is accelerated and their potency can decline during a few weeks.
So donot worry about it.

Hello lybrate-user, if immunization history is not known then should get tetanus toxoid vaccine also.

A child may get rabies if he or she is bitten or scratched by an animal with rabies. The virus can also be spread if a child has scratches or sores that are licked by an infected animal. Rabies can also spread if a child touches his or her mouth or eyes with hands that have saliva of an infected animal.
Stage 1 rabies symptoms may include fever ,headache, loss of appetite, vomiting etc.
Vaccines that give immunity to rabies must be given soon after contact with the rabies virus, if you s...more

An anti-tetanus serum is not required in routine injuries. It is only recommended in an intensively crushed and dirty wound, in which case it is given within the first six hours after the injury. A routine tetanus toxoid is also not necessary if one is previously fully immunised. In case one is not, then the toxoid is administered within the first 24 hours after the injury.

No need to get worried, tdap contains tetanus toxoid and diphtheria and acellular pertussis whereas dpt contains diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis protein, no harm would happen with acellular pertussis.

Hello,
tetanus toxoid is given intramuscularly (im), can be given in the upper arm muscle's muscle's insertion or in the thigh muscles. Better not to take risk and visit a nearby doctor who would hardly charge few bucks from you.

You need not have to take another shot of Injection T.T. The validity of tetanus toxoid is 5 years unless there is severe injury

RABIES VIRUS SPREADS MOSTLY THR SALIVA OF RABID DOG/ANIMALS. HERE--YOU ARE EXPOSED BY A NEEDLE PRICK INJURY WITH A NEEDLE USED TO INJECT DRUG TO THE DOG. YOU HAD TAKEN PROPER FIRST AID ALSO. YOU ARE ALSO TAKING ANTI RABIES VACCINE UNDER MEDICAL GUIDANCE. SO I AM OF OPENION THAT YOU WILL GET AMPLE PROTECTION.

yes you need injection even if you got a minor scratch its a class 1 injury also get tetanus toxoid