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| Sideways to Health... Does Red Wine Really Help? |
12-28-2005 |
| Lillian’s Security Blanket cooling device to treat oxygen-deprived babies |
12-16-2005 |
| Compassion Fatigue: Part III The Next Generation of Humanitarians |
12-13-2005 |
| Into the Mouths of Babes | 12-07-2005 |
| The Lessons of the 'Laboon' | 11-30-2005 |
| Compassion Fatigue: Part II Finding Balance While You're Waiting to Exhale |
11-21-2005 |
| Compassion Fatigue:
Part I When You've Got Nothing Left to Give |
11-15-2005 |
| The Winter Guide to Staying Healthy | 11-04-2005 |
| Taking a Bite Out of Crime: Forensic Dentistry |
10-31-2005 |
| Autopsy: The Inside Scoop |
10-28-2005 |
| 'He had a little pumkin head' Though safer from SIDS, 1 out of 300 babies will develop plagiocephaly—misshapen heads—from always sleeping on their backs. Special helmets to the rescue. |
10-25-2005 |
| Raise Your Prescription IQ: How Seniors Can Be 'Meds Smart' |
10-21-2005 |
| Aging Skin 101 | 10-18-2005 |
| Through a Child's Eyes How Children Cope with Disaster |
10-11-2005 |
| Propped Open: Pancreatic cancer patients can eat again, thanks to the small bowel stent |
10-05-2005 |
| You Must Decide: Does Life Love You...Or Love You Not? |
09-28-2005 |
| Katrina-borne Disease: Facts & Fiction |
09-19-2005 |
| Lung Cancer 101 | 09-13-2005 |
| Absorbing the Suffering | 09-07-2005 |
| Togetherness in Separation | 09-02-2005 |
| More than a Headache | 08-29-2005 |
| College Students and Meningitis The one back-to-school supply that could save your life |
08-22-2005 |
| Top 5 Myths about Vaccines | 08-16-2005 |
| Lower, Lower, Lower Stricter Guidelines for Cholesterol |
08-11-2005 |
| Two Thumbs Up New Wrist Fix |
08-01-2005 |
| Balancing Acts The amazing feats we are capable of performing with just a little brain training |
07-26-2005 |
| Bird Flu Spreading its Wings? |
07-20-2005 |
| Down For the Count How to Fight Hormonal Migraines |
07-15-2005 |
| Antidepressants and Pregnancy | 07-11-2005 |
| "But, it's just a toy" BBs, pellets, potatoes, paint, even air… A gun by any other name is still a gun. |
07-05-2005 |
| The Kindness of Strangers | 06-27-2005 |
| Straight from the hip: Joint replacements may provide relief to teens with arthritis |
06-24-2005 |
| Pain Medications: Lost in FDA Land |
06-21-2005 |
| Aspirin: a humble miracle worker |
06-15-2005 |
| The
Girl, The Tanning Bed and The Freckle: A cautionary tale to those who think they're immune to skin cancer |
06-10-2005 |
| In
the Groove Filling in the gaps wrinkles leave behind |
06-07-2005 |
| 101
Uses for Botox The beauty of Botox is more than skin-deep. Who knew a toxin could treat you (and treat you well) from head to toe? |
06-03-2005 |
| Soul Cages - The Science of Forgiveness | 05-27-2005 |
| Beneath
the Red Hat Statistics on a Woman's Life Long Lived |
05-24-2005 |
| Travelers'
Diarrhea A new study finds antibiotic Rifaximin a safe, effective prevention for an age-old vacation spoiler |
05-20-2005 |
| Head
Above the Rest UT pediatric surgeons pioneer a microscopic surgery and special helmet to reshape the skulls of babies born with craniosynostosis—premature fusing |
05-17-2005 |
| Passing The New Acid Test | 05-10-2005 |
| I
Want My Epidural...Now! No more need to wait for epidurals say OB-GYNs |
05-06-2005 |
| Preeclampsia | 05-03-2005 |
| Shhh... Meditation 101 First Time? Laugh and Learn |
04-26-2005 |
| The New Aged | 04-22-2005 |
| Gout: A Royal Pain | 04-18-2005 |
| Multiple
Sclerosis: On the Road Again |
04-12-2005 |
| Final
Choices End-of-life Questions and Answers |
04-06-2005 |
| Dreams | 03-29-2005 |
| The
Etiquette of Illness Compassionate Dos and Don'ts For caregivers and loved ones |
03-25-2005 |
| Flabber-gasted. Weight loss surgery helps shed the pounds. Shedding the flesh is another story. |
03-22-2005 |
| Finè....
Kaput....
The End. A final goodbye to hemorrhoids |
03-18-2005 |
| Deep Vein Thrombosis | 03-15-2005 |
| NPH:
The Great Pretender It looks like Parkinson’s, acts like Alzheimer’s, seems like dementia. The difference? It’s treatable. |
03-11-2005 |
| Snapshots
of Dyslexia When a picture is worth a thousand unreadable words |
03-08-2005 |
| Want
This Smile? Don't Try This at Home... |
03-02-2005 |
| The
Butt Stops Here: A Consumer's Guide to Smoking Cessation Tools |
02-25-2005 |
| Dogs & Chocolate | 02-22-2005 |
| Over
Exposed? Teens, Sex and Mass Media |
02-18-2005 |
| New
Attack on Heart Attack Cardiologists, paramedics and ERs embark on a special research mission to save your life. |
02-15-2005 |
| Falling
Deeply in...'Like' Are Anti-Depressants Also Anti-Romantics? |
02-11-2005 |
| The
Intimate Enemy: Violence During Pregnancy |
02-08-2005 |
| NSAIDs
101: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs |
02-01-2005 |
| All You Can With All You Got | 01-25-2005 |
| When
Going to Work Makes You Sick - Literally Sick Building Syndrome - What It Is, How to Treat It |
01-21-2005 |
| Uterine
Fibroid Embolization: An Alternative to Hysterectomy |
01-18-2005 |
| Fry: A Low-Down on a Dangerous High | 01-14-2005 |
| Double
Jeopardy The link between estrogen and insulin could put women with diabetes or breast cancer at risk…for both. |
01-11-2005 |
| A
Chance for Abigail Even before birth, she was dying. But Abigail and her surgeon had other plans for her future. |
01-07-2005 |
| The
Little White Lie When it helps... When it hurts |
01-04-2005 |
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Tetanus booster for adults
Tetanus does not result from the rusty nail or whatever created the wound. The danger lies in the bacteria Clostridium tetani that lives in the soil or manure on that nail or gardening tool. When these spores get into a wound—deep or shallow—they can produce a potent toxin. Also called lockjaw, tetanus seriously affects the central nervous system and can be fatal.
Onset of symptoms can occur anytime from three days to three weeks. Call your health care provider if you have an open wound, particularly if:
Adults should have a tetanus booster shot every 10 years, known as the Td vaccine. It is a "2-in-1" vaccine that protects against tetanus and diphtheria. It contains a slightly different dose of diphtheria vaccine than what you received as a child. It can be given to anyone older than 7 years and is injected, usually into the arm.
Instead of the standard Td booster every 10 years, adults between the ages of 19 and 65 should receive Tdap one time in their adulthood to boost the immune system for pertussis, as well as tetanus and diphtheria.
Diphtheria, a contagious bacterial infection created that causes severe inflammation of the throat and larynx and can also affect the whole body. Pertussis or “whooping cough” is a serious bacterial infection that afflicted children and infants before vaccines were available. Adults may be infected later in life as their immunities wane. Neither of these infections are related to tetanus, but both vaccines are compatible and convenient to use with the tetanus booster.
