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| Yuck-ology Lice, worms & other gross-out conditions |
09-04-2008 |
| A Cry for Sleep Lack of sleep linked to personal problems in teens |
08-06-2008 |
| School Dazed 12 ways to reset your children's clock (before the first day of school!) |
07-30-2008 |
| 10 Tips for Healthy Far-Off Travel | 07-09-2008 |
| Liquid Assets: Our Electrolytes |
07-02-2008 |
| Venom: Protect Yourself from Summer Villains |
06-25-2008 |
| Hurricane & Flood: Before and After Handbook |
06-02-2008 |
| Pop Quiz! Heart tests on young athletes coming to schools this fall |
05-28-2008 |
| A Sobering Discussion: Talking to your child about underage drinking |
03-19-2008 |
| Ask the Experts! Elder Care & Geriatric Medicine |
03-05-2008 |
| Brain Fitness: At Any Age |
02-27-2008 |
| Abscessed Teeth: One Painful Reminder |
02-20-2008 |
| The Woman's Heart - Part Two | 02-08-2008 |
| Medication Mistakes Parents Make | 12-13-2007 |
| Online Love | 12-05-2007 |
| Got (breast) Milk? | 11-29-2007 |
| Smoking 101: What Happens When You Smoke, Puff by Puff? What Happens When You Quit, Breath by Breath? |
11-15-2007 |
| Super Bug Antibiotic-resistant ear infections |
11-08-2007 |
| Me and My Shadow | 10-31-2007 |
| Sleeping with the Enemy: Your worst day may be the first day you start saving your life |
10-25-2007 |
| Impulsivity: When you can't curb the urge |
10-17-2007 |
| Understanding Anger, Aggression and Violence | 10-10-2007 |
| Back by Popular Demand! Top 7 (More) Questions Parents Want the Experts to Answer |
09-27-2007 |
| Part Two: A parent's guide to having "the talk" with your 'Tweens & Teens |
09-12-2007 |
| Part One: A parent's guide to having "the talk" with your young children |
09-06-2007 |
| Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: a year-round danger |
08-15-2007 |
| Singin' the West Nile Blues Clinical depression can strike West Nile Virus patients up to one year after infection, new research finds |
08-01-2007 |
| Doctors are from Venus;
Patients are from Mars How to be Heard |
06-06-2007 |
| Spring....Brake! After a week of non-stop beer bonging and binge drinking, some students will belly up to the Web to sober up at e-CHUG |
03-15-2007 |
| The Woman's Heart: Part Two New heart health guidelines and a trip to the ER proved to one woman that she—and her heart were now being taken seriously |
02-22-2007 |
| The Woman's Heart: Part One It may break the same but it doesn't ache the same |
02-14-2007 |
| Top 30 Ways To Ruin (& Repair) Your Workout | 01-25-2007 |
| Teen Stress 101 | 11-29-2006 |
| A Few Good Monsters Don't be scared, be grateful. The Gila Monster is helping diabetics control blood sugar and lose weight. |
11-15-2006 |
| 'Spit' for a Cure “No cavities and no breast cancer. See you in six months. Don’t forget to floss.” |
11-08-2006 |
| Memory Research & Meditation | 11-01-2006 |
| The Pork Taco, The Tapeworm and The Brain | 10-25-2006 |
| After-Bite We hear about those who die from West Nile Virus. We hear about those who get well. But, we don’t hear much about the one percent who live with it. Long term. |
10-11-2006 |
| Understanding Sudden Death in Teen Athletes | 10-04-2006 |
| Lab Tests 101 | 09-20-2006 |
| Girl Bullies: Mean Girls (Revisited) |
09-14-2006 |
| 7 Questions Parents Ask Pediatricians | 08-16-2006 |
| HPV Vaccine to Fight Cervical Cancer | 08-09-2006 |
| HeartFelt Stress | 07-12-2006 |
| Fire Up the Barbecue! Tips for safe outdoor grilling |
06-28-2006 |
| Home is Where the Heart (defibrillator) Lives... Experts weigh in on home external heart defibrillators |
02-13-2006 |
| Overexposed? Radiation safety in diagnostic testing |
01-20-2006 |
| Sideways to Health... Does Red Wine Really Help? |
12-20-2005 |
| Into the Mouths of Babes | 12-07-2005 |
| The Winter Guide to Staying Healthy | 11-04-2005 |
| Top 5 Myths About Vaccines | 08-16-2005 |
| Lower, Lower, Lower Stricter Guidelines for Cholesterol |
08-11-2005 |
| Aspirin: a humble miracle worker |
06-15-2005 |
| Travelers' Diarrhea | 05-20-2005 |
| Deep Vein Thrombosis | 03-15-2005 |
| The Butt Stops Here: A Consumer's Guide to Smoking Cessation Tools |
02-25-2005 |
| NSAIDs
101: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs |
02-01-2005 |
| Awakenings: The most dangerous time of the day...is the start of it. |
11-11-2004 |
| Babies & Flu 2004 In a time of shortage, get them vaccinated |
10-11-2004 |
| Flu Phobia? | 10-21-2004 |
| MicroCalcification A lump is not the only way breast cancer shows up |
10-07-2004 |
| Blood Pressure 101 Part Two |
08-31-2004 |
| Blood Pressure 101 Part One |
08-26-2004 |
| Do the Math: The New Cholesterol Numbers |
08-23-2004 |
| Grown-ups, Get Your Shots! | 08-19-2004 |
| New Combo Vaccine 6 times fewer tears |
08-17-2004 |
| Warning: Fashion Can Be Hazardous To Your Health | 06-24-2004 |
| The "D-lemma" | 06-03-2004 |
| On Parenting: Tips on Raising Teens From the Experts: YOU |
05-06-2004 |
| The Toothpaste Trance | 04-20-2004 |
| High Blood Pressure And West Nile Virus What You Need to Know |
04-05-2004 |
| Another Tequila Sunrise Another Spring Break in the Bathroom |
03-04-2004 |
| Got Milk? Got Indegestion? You may need to mooo-ve away from dairy products |
02-26-2004 |
| Catch Me If You Can The race is on between Man and mutating virus |
02-02-2004 |
| Walk a Mile in Their Shoes Expert Advice on Getting On Track |
01-06-2004 |
| The Road Less Traveled Travel Clinics for Wanderlust |
12-01-2003 |
| “Mom! There’s a lump in my breast!” | 11-10-2003 |
| Kidney's Need Love, Too | 10-02-2003 |
| Vaccine Debate: New Law Now Gives You a Choice |
08-21-2003 |
| West Nile Virus: Avoid the Bite |
07-07-2003 |
| Connecting the Dots: Unique Tool for Early Skin Cancer Detection |
06-09-2003 |
| The Flu Shot: Hidden Heart Protector |
05-12-2003 |
| Progesterone: Mother's Little Helper in Preventing Premature Births |
05-08-2003 |
| Mercury Poisoning: The Truth About Silver Fillings |
03-17-2003 |
| Eight-Legged and Venomous The brown recluse just wants a little respect |
08-08-2002 |
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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.
