Can You Actually Get Tetanus From Stepping on a Rusty Nail?
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My great grandmother gave me a crippling fear of stepping on a rusty nail and getting lock jaw. Not sometimes...or most of the time...no, EVERY single time I went to play I got the warning. Sadly...I heard it the last time when I was around 12. Never thought that would b something I'd ever miss hearing.
Aw
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If you are going out, don't step on a rusty nail and get lock jaw.
Funny what we miss when we hear it no more.
You b careful out there!!
You could step on a rusty nail!! You know what happens if you do that?? You immediately have to go get a tetanus shot or you'll get lock jaw!! You want that??
That shot hurts too!! Feels like you've been kicked by a horse!!
*Said in Grandma's voice*
I know how you feel!! ♥️♥️
Hugs
Can you get it that way? Yes. Are you more likely to get it by digging in the dirt? Yes. I am up on my DTAP(or whatever they call it today) and I always have a convo about why I'm getting vaccinated, etc. with the pharmacist, and this is one of the topics. When I was working in HVAC I was always being exposed to nails that stick through a roof or floor and so I got my shot to prevent anything, well, preventable, and in the process learned that I didn't have to worry nearly as much about a rusty nail as gardening.
Dtap is the initial vaccination for kids, Tdap is the booster for adults.
I stepped on a rusty nail thing once. Thought it would go away. It got really red and inflamed. Emergency room at midnight on a sunday. Yep! You can get tetanus from it.
I used to dig tunnels in my yard with my brother as a kid all the time for years. I guess I'm pretty lucky that we were vaccinated for tetanus haha
@@Liquessen . But its not the rusty nail, the bacteria from animal shit that may be on it.
I get cut on rusty metal a few times a week, but it's metal that is installed indoors and away from dirt. No issues yet.
While working as an RN in central Texas (approximately 1988-89), I cared for a patient who contracted tetanus and was diagnosed possibly too late for the anti-toxin to be effective, although she received it and we were hopeful. If it turned out that the disease had progressed too far for a good outcome from said anti-toxin, she would eventually require paralytics and mechanical ventilation, hence she was placed in ICU upon admission to the hospital. I was on duty when I heard her primary nurse yell out for help. The patient had been alert, talking and eating, etc. normally that first day and into the next. But on this day, all of a sudden, her facial, jaw and arm muscles tightened to the point that the endotracheal tube (ET tube, or breathing tube which would be hooked up to the ventilator) could not be placed even nasally. An anesthesiologist came and, with considerable worry, gave her the paralytic meds IV prior to inserting the ET tube. This is worrisome because these meds also paralyze the diaphragm and breathing stops. But within seconds, he was able to place the ET tube nasally (to prevent her from biting it if the meds wore off unexpectedly). She remained in the ICU for several weeks, then went through weeks of physical therapy, but eventually returned home. She was in her 60s and an avid gardener.
I'm a paramedic in a North Texas ED but have never experienced something like this mostly because TDAP injections are so commonplace these days, even if most patients who get them don't quite even understand what it is. Your story is a reminder. Thank you for sharing.
Was she vaccinated?
@@PunPryde I don’t know when she last had a tetanus shot. We’re supposed to get one every 10 years, but that interval has changed a couple of times in my lifetime!
@@imlistening1137 were you able to figure out how she contracted it or that's not something yall find out? Was it from something rusty in the garden? Just curious because I was recently urged to get up to date on my tetanus sh0t after coming into the ER with a locked up back from a really bad muscle spasm that's still lingering. I always heard it came from getting cut on rusty things, but recently, after reading up on it, because they made me paranoid af, I learned it comes from soil or manure typically. So I wonder if it had to do with the soil or fertilizer from her gardening hobby.
The aftercare & recovery must have been hard for her, but it's truly amazing she was able to recover, especially at her age. I just have additional questions too if you dont mind sharing. Im confused about one part if you dont mind clarifying. So since administering the vaxine was too late, and since tetanus was already in her system, did the vaxine help work it out of her system and that's how she was able to fight it off to survive and gain mobility back? Or it's something her body had to fight off naturally since it was too late and didnt stop her system from seizing? Also, since she contracted it, is it always there for life, kind of like the damage from a stroke or paralysis, and physical therapy helps her maintain a sense of mobility? I can't really find any info about people who survived and how it impacts them after.
@@HoneeyBee3 great questions! To be clear, I’m long retired, and not completely up-to-date, but I’ll answer what I can…
Tetanus is in the soil, etc. Here’s a very basic explanation- as, like I said, it’s been awhile-The tetanus bacterium isn’t what kills you, but rather, upon dying, it releases neurotoxin. Since I met her in the ICU (she was awake, oriented and sweet as could be until the critical moment) I wasn’t in on her initial assessment, but in report, it was mentioned that the theory was that she contracted it because she gardened a lot, and either had a hole in her gloves, or might have done a quick job without gloves. She had also been scratched by a rusty old bed spring out in her barn or somewhere! This case was many years ago.
As for tetanus boosters- I would never be without one after watching this happen. It was truly shocking. Also, there are documentaries about countries where vaccines are absent or not widely used for any number of reasons (unavailable, patient fear, cost, etc.) Please don’t let the Coof vaccine debacle scare you from getting the tried and true vaccines that have been around since forever (Coof-19, if you can get my code!) Another worry I have is people handling injured wild animals. Best to know the rate of rabies in any given species in any area. There are gruesome videos of what that does to a person.
Have a nice day!
When I was maybe 9 years old, I stepped on a rusty nail, impaled my foot all the way through. As soon as I felt it, I jumped back off the nail, and looked down to see it sticking up out of a board on the ground, covered in blood. Luckily, it managed to pass straight through without breaking any bones or damaging anything important, so other than a couple days of slight soreness, my fully-impaled foot miraculously turned out to be no more consequential than an everyday minor scrape or cut. But because my dad had told me about lockjaw, I will always remember looking at that nail, realizing what had happened, and truly believing I was going to die in a few days. But we went to the hospital and the doctor was like, “I mean, you’ve got to have had your tetanus shot, right? So yeah, that’s not a thing.”
That made my botty clench
Damn!!
OUCH! I feel for you. I stepped on one of those taper candle holders that have the long spike in the middle that you ram into the end of the candle. I was in kindergarten when it happened and still remember what it felt like.
the thing is... the tetanus shot doesn't work every time.
I did exactly the same at about the same age.....also remember my indignation at having to get the tetanus shot in my arse afterwards 🤣
I stepped on a rusty nail in high school that went through my sneaker and slightly into my foot. I had recently had a tetanus shot and it didn't seem too bad, so we didn't do anything about it for a few days. Then when I went to the doctor to make sure I didn't need antibiotics, they said that I actually needed to go to the hospital for *a week* to be on intense intravenous antibiotics. Apparently the rusty nail wasn't the problem, it was the fact that it had potentially pushed the adhesive from my sneaker sole into my foot which can cause a very serious bacterial infection. Fun anecdotal fact! 🧠
It's so weird you refer to your doctor as a "they". He or she is either a he or a she.
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Or maybe the sex of that doctor really doesn't matter in this case, so they chose to speak generally instead?
@@Elora445 lol "they". That's what I mean. It's just so weird and stupid to call someone a they.
it is highly probable that more than one medical professional was seen, therefore, the use of "they" is technically correct
@@bethanygarcia6009 No, the op said when I went to THE doctor, they....implying there was one doctor. I definitely get what you meant though. The few times I had to go to the ER, I had to see multiple doctors.
Yep, I agree that avoiding stepping on sharp metal objects and that includes rusty nails is a good advice.
I stepped on one 6 days ago and it almost went in 1". I can testify to it not being pleasant regardless of Tetanus. And yes, I had to boost my vaccination.
I did the same about a month ago. Not pleasant at all.
you get stabbed with a sharp metal object TWICE
@@Stevie-J a bit sore if I rolled over in bed to sleep on it, but otherwise good.
When I was four, I went in a wooded area behind my house (a large distance away from the house) with a friend and stepped on a rusty nail. I screamed and someone who lived on the other side of the wooded area found me. They carried me home and demanded that I go get treated and get a tetanus shot. My parents tried to downplay it because of money but the lady who found me threatened to call CPS over it. My parents took me to the doctor begrudgingly and I got my tetanus shot a bit earlier than expected that day! My doctor was NOT happy with my parents for trying to go without, especially considering I actually got sick (probably something else from the nail) a week or so later.
I was later told not to go into the wooded area anymore because the lady was "a bad person" and might kidnap me. I was taught to dislike her, but looking back, she saved me and should have been a warning of what my life would become.
I did end up going back into the area later (I was 4, stupid, and neglected) and the lady saw me in there and got kinda mean about getting me out of there. I didn't like her and I feel bad now. She was one of the only sane people around me and she was doing the job my parents were supposed to do. I wish there was some way I could track her down and thank her. She was a good person.
At age four you should have already had the shot at least twice. They are even free in many places but I guess that was not the case years ago.
@@georgeedward602 this was about 26 years ago. I will be honest in that I don't know how much they were or anything like that, but my family was part of a cult and it wouldn't shock me if I found out I was not vaccinated as much as I should have been when I was young. Money was the excuse I remember but other factors could have been at play. Additionally, to be blunt my parents weren't all that bright when it came to public services or anything medical.
@@misternoodle1236 Sounds like your parents had some issues other than money and sorry to hear that. Remember even adults should get the shot every five years though. I always wait till I get hurt..lol but not wise because it's a nasty illness that is 100% preventable at low or no cost.
@@misternoodle1236 She's an adult and I'm sure she understood that your dislike for her was influenced by your parents and didn't take it personally. She was still looking out for you even after the first time you got hurt, even despite the reaction from your parents.
My great great grandfather actually died of "stelkramp", aka lockjaw/tetanus, in 1919 in Sweden.
He was born in 1843 in the same place he died (in Värmland, about as west as you can go in Sweden before you're in Norway instead). He was, almost ironically, a ships' navigator for 40 years, dealing with the many rusted metals one indubitably was surrounded by in late 19th century seafaring, but once he left the navy, he returned to his wife and children to change his vocation to agriculture, taking over, as the eldest son, the large farm & timber producer, industry which had been previously run by only his brother and their deceased father, all on land that the family had held for generations by then.
In 1919 (age 76) he had been refusing to retire for years, as many menfolk in my family still seem to like doing), and thus he continued to take care of quite physically demanding jobs, and general farm labouring (that he probably was realistically too old to be doing).
Whilst scything an overgrown field of late summer grasses on his Värmland fields during a warm bright day in mid August, his grip on the handle slipped or he tripped (it isn't clear because by the time he told someone the illness had already kicked in), but regardless of the specifics, he appeared to have sliced his arm quite badly in the process of doing so. He, seemingly unbothered, bandaged it himself and insisted he treat its healing by himself, refusing any other assistance, brushing off his wife, employees, and even his injured son--and the literal medical doctor who was staying with them, as he was looking after said son....
... AND, SPEAKING OF THIS SON, AS AN ASIDE, he was Mr Scything Sensation's 2nd youngest son, and as mentioned was himself still recovering from an injury.... and what was this injury, you ask? Oh, nothing too terrible, just being literally shot in the heart at the battle of the Somme, and lying in the mud for three days before someone kicked him and said "Oi,, boys, we got a living one!". As it happened, sadly this 2nd-youngest son was also the only one of his four brothers to survive WW1: and, as it turns out, was also my great grandfather.
He was born in 1884 and, as I'm talking to you today, he obviously did survive this minor "being shot in the heart" business, though it took him some time to recover, and a few operations to rebuild and heal his core muscles, along with other injuries and infections he'd acquired during the war. The shrapnel actually stayed there for the rest of his life, 2 mm from his heart, as it was too dangerous to remove, and he didn't die until 1960... and yes, to those who are counting out these years and wondering how it all adds up, his wife, my great grandmother, was 29 years younger than him (similar to her own parents'... excessive age gap, shall we say) and she was born in 1908, thus ofc outlived him, dying at the age of 97. I even knew her quite well as a result, which all explains how there are seemingly too few generations here--or, at least, fewer than you would expect for someone in their twenties in 2022, aka me--generations between me and my 3-greats grandfather, who was born an almost uncomfortably long time ago, in 1790.
I bring these dates up because, not only because, as Simon often says, "the past is the worst", but because the past is also totally weird, and this is interesting to me so probably interesting to others too.
Consider how many generations there are between, for example, Queen Victoria and Prince George, son of Prince William, and you'll get a better idea of what I mean... the answer is eight generations, aka Queen Victoria is Prince George's 5 -greats grandmother, and she was only born in 1819..... and then there is my own 3 - greats grandfather, father of Mr Lockjaw, who was born in 1790, when King George III was monarch. More applicable is prob more the swedish royal family, as these folks were all swedes, so if anyone even cares, my 3-greats grandfather was born under the reign of Gustav III, and my great grandfather, the one who fought in WW1 and was still recovering when his father died of lockjaw? He was born under King Oskar II.) .
So, back to my fool-hardy, recklessly-scythe-happy great great grandpop, he just waved everyone off, saying they were fussing, and he assured doctor and the rest of his employees, farmhands, servants, and basically his entire household, that this was just a flesh wound, nothing to worry about, saying over and over that he was fine, and he just shewed everyone away again, whenever they attempted to even clean the wound. Then, in a totally unforseen turning of the tables, something that no one could've ever predicted, happened: instead of being fine, he actually proceeded to die of lockjaw/tetanus, a mere fortnight after his gung-ho attempt at radical inter-war lawn maintenance... much to the intense frustration and annoyance of his entire family (and their family friend, the doctor) and all of his many descendants, when they learn of the story. Sure, they were sad, but based on his wife's and son's letters and diary entries we've since found, most people were just annoyed, and said he got what he deserved for being so stubborn to the point of stupidity.... which I know I shouldn't find funny, but it kinda is, ngl.
The moral of this story? Idk. Take your resident grumpy old Swedish man to the doctor's, even if you have to trick him into doing so? Don't scythe recklessly? Live after the tetanus vaccine was invented? All of the above, probably.
This made me laugh. I needed that. Thank you and your crotchety old great, great grandpappy
Good stories! Great family!😃
Sophia, I find it sad that the term “too long, didn’t read” (tldr) exists, because I often find that the best stories worth reading do not fit, even if squeezed with a hydraulic press, into a 200 character box. I enjoyed your story. Thanks for sharing, and for the friendly reminder about unscrupulous scything with a sickness inducing sickle. I had planned on doing some scything this afternoon, so you probably saved my family tree. … a Sycamore.
This story is amazing! Thanks for the laugh. XD
regardless of anything else I would say, I must praise this: you tell a great story! I was captivated right the way through.
truly gifted storytelling!
Thanks, Simon. You and your team make some of the most interesting and educational videos on TH-cam.
I'm not sure I would call stepping on a rusty nail "minor". it freaking hurts
" Freaking hurts " is an understatement. I did it when I was 14 and can remember it as though it happened yesterday. I am now 53. The pain was really bad. Of course, the nail went in really deep.
I scraped the side of my foot with a rusty nail once when I was a kid when walking on an old collapsed building. I still remember it, but was lucky not to end up with it through my foot. I still remember, not any pain, but that I should wear real shoes not flip flops when exploring.
Fuck a duck that's right!
Yeah I stepped on one when I was like 10 years old and it was the most painful and disgusting feelings ever, the one i stepped on went in probably an inch deep or more. I had to get a tetanus shot the very next day.
I stepped on a nail at a job site when I was cleaning up debris. It went straight through my shoe and my foot poking out the top of the shoe. It hurt like h-ll and bled for quite a while. I got a tetanus booster right away.
I nearly died at 12 from an allergic reaction to a tetanus shot. I was informed at the time that another tetanus shot will put me under the sod. I discussed it with my general practitioner some years ago and he told me that the bacteria that causes tetanus doesn't stand a chance against my immune system. Makes sense, since I've worked with metals most of my life... I started to learn welding at 12, actually. I've been cut countless times over the years and never had a problem. As I post this, I have a cut from a steel stud on my right wrist from a few days ago and a spot on my right hand that got ripped up a bit from a wrench slipping on a stuck grinder wheel yesterday.
My biggest problem with tetanus was an overzealous quack who insisted on giving me a tetanus shot after cutting my hand with a literally brand new utility knife blade. I explained to him that I was allergic. He basically told me I didn't know what I was talking about and loaded a needle. I explained the facts to him at that point...
Told him I had clearly informed him of a life-threatening alergy to tetanus shots and that any attempt on his part to administer said shot would be considered a deliberate attempt on my life and dealt with decisively. That opened his ears.
I stepped on a rusty nail when working at a haunted house. Worked about 4 hours after. Then went to the hospital and discovered a red line about 6 inches long. Got a tetanus shot. They said I had blood poisoning and almost lost my foot.
Damn, good thing you didn’t leave it unchecked!
A haunted house 😂 ok...
I got blood poisoning from the monkey bars at school in the 80s.
One aspect of the "nail" issue, is that most superficial wounds are easily washed out and are exposed to air. Anaerobe need to be free of oxygen and a puncture wound, or a wound that is sealed tight provide the oxygen free environment for the bacteria.
I'm a residential framing carpenter.
A nail in your foot is not NEARLY as bad as a nail in your knee cap. (Driven by nail gun)
I used to be a residential framing carpenter like you, then I took a nail in the knee.
I read this an visibly got the heebie jeebies. Hope your knee is ok
Oh that is just sick making! I used to work with a doctor who told me that he'd once had a holiday job as a medical student, nailing crates together with an old pneumatic nail gun in a factory. Safety off, (for speed!) so the nail gun would fire on contact. One day his ankle was itchy, so he scratched it. And nailed his new Levis to his ankle. Apparently he was also given a tetanus shot later that day......
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"I once was an adventurer like you, till I took a rusty nail to the knee."
NOICE!
I’ve seen tetanus in action. I did social work and saw a child with it. It was one of the first hospital calls I got. His parents neglected to get him vaccinated and when he was 7 he fell while playing outside of their home and scraped his leg on an abandoned car. They left his wound go for days and days and sadly he didn’t live. By the time they brought him to the hospital he was unresponsive. He had 2 younger sisters and 1 younger brother. They were removed from the home. It was clear that they were being abused and neglected. They were charged however, the mother was released from prison 3 years ago and I saw her last summer, she was heavily pregnant. The other children were sent to live with an aunt and uncle a few states away. It was very sad. Completely avoidable and that little boys face still haunts me. Also, I’m not sure if this is across the board for most insurances but I know that my insurance won’t cover a tetanus vaccination unless you have a cut, abrasion or other injury.
A tetanus shot is around 50 dollars without insurance, and a hospital stay for tetanus costs upward of 40,000 dollars. There is no insurance company on earth that would deny a 50 dollar payment to prevent a 40,000 dollar payment.
@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 The tetanus shots are free in the UK and Europe,
@@dogwalker666 my state has universal healthcare, so they're free for me too.
@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 Excellent. As it should be.
I've got the cheapest insurance I could find and they covered the tetanus shot when i got my last physical.
I got tetanus from stepping on a nail in the early 1960s. My doctor said I was within a couple hours of losing my foot. The massive dose of penicillin kept me at rest in an easy chair for a week. I was about 10 years old and chasing my sister who stole my shoe.
Neonatal tetanus: yet another reminder for new prospective parents to keep up on their own vaccinations for the sake of the kids.
I knew the answer was not necessarily, but I wanted to hear more details. Simon you did not disappoint. As an avid gardener and forager with a love of scavenged containers for garden beds, when I started specializing in soil based gardening techniques (focused on increasing the volume of soil microbes) mom suggested, and I agreed, that it was time to get a tetanus shot. Although I got it, I was still careful enough that in the decade or so I've been gardening, foraging and scavenging I haven't gotten a rusty nail or shard of glass in my foot even once. When the neighbor's boy jabbed his hand on broken glass while cleaning the area around the garbage cans, and his mother said she wasn't sure if he needed the tetanus shot, I told her "it lasts for ten years and the best case scenario for Tetanus is your boy ends up in a wheel chair." they got him vaccinated the very next day. That family is brazilian american, very down to earth, very determined to work hard up the ladder. Any disease that could harm the productivity and independence of their children they took seriously. If you cut yourself on anything that has been on the ground, or is dirty and dusty, and you don't have one already, get your tetanus shot. If you expect to be doing anything that will put you in contact with soil for large portions of the day, get your tetanus shot. It's better to be cautious, and I'd call a ten year period before you need a booster a much better deal than the flu shot. Plus if you're crippled by Tetanus odds are you're a very active person, possibly even in a very active profession, would you really want to be paralyzed when your entire life and livelihood is about movement?
Can you get tetanus from stepping on a rusty nail? Yes. Is it because of the fact it's a rusty nail? No.
What do u mean bro, reply quick I just got a minor tetenus nail accident. Should I go?
I had a conversation with my former GP about getting a tetanus booster. He asked if I spend time in hundred-year-old barns, because my risk would be low. I told him my friend has a 250 year old colonial-era barn, and yes we work in there sometimes.
Thank you for the video Simon
My maternal grandfather survived a bout of tetanus. It was terrible. He was a farmer, + had been handling dirty, manure-covered water pipes bare handed.
I had a mild case of tetanus several years ago. It was rough, got it by getting scratched by a piece of rusted metal while taking a bag of trash to the dumpster. Felt ok for 2 days, then had a slight case of lockjaw and it came and went. Took me almost a year to recover
Did the tetanus go away?
@@EpicMalick Not fully no. I still have a slight stiffness in my jaw that comes and goes
I thank you for that little bit of humor at the end
Outstanding work.
I'm all about the 4 humors. Give me copious amounts of wine if I'm going to die of tetanus!
My cousin got tetanus from stepping on a wire coat hanger. She was pregnant at the time. Spent weeks and weeks in weeks in intensive care and nearly lost her baby.
Hi Gloria.
Was she vaccinated?
Did they give the child a name/nickname due to this event?
You have great communication skills and a very informative channel. Hope your day is going well!!!
The “step in a nail“ is really terrifying for me, almost like a phobia, whenever im around planks, i triple check.
How do you step *in* a nail?
@@Aconitum_napellus you get a foot, locate a board with an nail trough it, put the board with the nail’s exposed tip (the opposite side to the flat part that you hammer) up, look randomly aroud and start walking to the board, stepping on the board by “accident“ getting impaled by the exposed iron nail.
I presume you need this tutorial, you may only be a skeletal remain, tough, stepping on a nail wont be that painful since youd have only bomes in your foot.
About 10 years ago, i was cleaning up in this yard a bit, and while trying to go behind this shed i put my hand up to move a branch out of the way. Not paying attention to where i was stepping, i found a board with a rusty nail sticking up, it was hidden in the grass in such a way that it was barely noticeable. Especially the nail.
It's actually easier than one might think to step on a nail. If you're not in an air conditioned office next to the water cooler all day, going on social media with selfies to show off "nap time face". it's likely you're a blue collar worker doing the important jobs, and fatigue is a frequent issue you deal with. You are encouraged quite vocally to move fast too. So in the humid unshaded open sun you eventually make little mistakes, such as stepping on a nail.
@@Andrei9thouzen "accident" or not, you're still expected to work through the day if you step on a nail.
Very interesting video well done
I had a friend as a teen that had it. She was one miserable person while she suffered from it.
Good video!
I've had two tetanus shots in my life. Both times after accidents. One time I ripped my hand open helping unload a trailer full of sheet metal got me 15 stitches, a tetanus shot and a nice scar to add to my collection. Another time I was building a pallet and the nail gun blew a nail through the side of the 2x4 and embedded the nail in my wrist. That one ended up being relatively minor, other than some pain, and again a tetanus shot. Haven't had one since then, but I'm told that since I am always working on cars and things that could potentially cut me that I am considered "high risk" and should get a shot preemptively every 5 years.
The current recommendation is for a tetanus immunization booster every 10 years but in the event of a potentially dirty wound, an booster should be administered if the most recent booster was more than 5 years ago. In the event of a potentially dirty wound, tetanus immunoglobulin may also be given depending upon the circumstances. It does sound like you're at higher risk than most people and you would be wise to follow these recommendations. Also, these recommendations assume you've had at least three tetanus immunizations in the past so you should discuss with your doctor whether you should have a booster now. Tetanus is a very nasty disease and even if you don't die you'll be a hurting unit for a long time.
Thanks, Simon. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
As a member of this exclusive 'Steeped on Rusty Nail' club, the first thing doctors did was hit me up with the tetanus shot. Then 4 weeks of not being able to walk. Good times.
Good video 👍
So the clostridium family is just bad. C. Dif. , C. Tet, and C. Bot. are all pretty unpleasant infections. (Listed in order of lethality). Peroxide can take care of superficial exposure, but deep puncture wounds are notorious for developing infections of all kinds.
I feel like this left out something important. The small but deep wounds are what lead to the anaerobic area where tetanus thrives. The wound is small enough on the outside that it heals over quickly, cutting off the oxygen supply.
One advice with puncture wounds is to thoroughly wash them while they are still bleeding.
I'm apart of the furry fandom because of the 1995 film of Balto, starring Kevin Bacon as a voice actor, which is an animated film about an anthropomorphic dog that delivers diphtheria antitoxin to children in the town of Nome, Alaska, where there was a diphtheria endemic. Turns out the film is based on a real life event known as The 1925 Great Serum Race, where a relay team of dog mushers had to go retrieve the medicine over 600 miles away because there was a winter storm that blocked other forms of transportation. Children were dying, they even have coffins in children's shapes in the film to show that. Diphtheria is one of the most deadly diseases known to man and when it's an endemic, it kills quickly and spreads fast. The annual Iditarod Sled Dog Race in Alaska commemorates the 1925 Great Serum Race and has a similar path that the original relay team went on.
That's so cool,thanks for sharing that info
jeeeeeee! when I was 10 I was playing with a friend and I did step on a rusty nail. I didn't know what Tetanus was back then, but thankfully my friend did. He said, I need to get the shot or I'll die.
Holly cow! He saved my life.
What if I was with someone else and we both ignored it as "it's just a scratch"?
The thought of a rusty nail is more likely that they are just seen as "dirty", not that they have places for bacteria to hide or are near soil. For that same reason, clean nails aren't associated with tetanus although, as stated in the video, you can get tetanus from a clean nail just as well. The association of a rusty nail is dirty and puncture - when someone is told not to step on a rusty nail the specifics of tetanus aren't explained.
"when someone is told not to step on a rusty nail the specifics of tetanus aren't explained." Don't you have it the wrong way around?
You don't need to tell people not to step on a rusty nail, that goes without saying. But people are indeed often told that this eventuality is on of the reasons for a tetanus shot.
Anyone who watched the video has this information already. No offense intended. Thanks for sharing
@@lunakoala5053 No, for example, my Mother told me not to step on a rusty nail - she didn't go on to explain tetanus and such. Maybe we are saying the same thing in different ways. People are generally told about tetanus and the shot later in life, but as a child, it's "don't step on rusty nails". And yes, you don't need to be told not to step on them, but it's used as a warning anyway - or maybe I know strange parents (not just mine either). lol I was actually asked "was it rusty" after stepping on a nail as a kid, funny how memories come back after all these years.
@@grumpslowenleft9642 My mother never told me that. I was smart enough to assume that stepping on a nail, rusty or no, might hurt.
@@lunakoala5053 Not me, went from jumping on one rusty nail to another until Mom told me not to......sheesh. Of course smart enough not to, but that doesn't stop Mother's from worrying.
You just made me wonder about something.
Natural severing of the umbilical cord would be like the first test of immunity in mammals and perhaps one of evolutions engines?
Could you please add links when you recommend a video like you did with the leeches one? There are a lot of other links and ads but none for when you say to check out another video.🤷🏻♀
When I was 5 I stepped on a big rust nail despite my dad’s warning to stay away from a dangerous area.
I didn't know what to do, I just walked around with the nail stuck in my toe/shoe... It also was still attached to the board it was nailed in (what a smart kid I was).
Finally, while I was riding my bicycle it fell off 🤣
I kept an eye on it and washed my feet. I didn't want to tell my dad because I was terrified of him.
My GP had a case, when he was fresh out of med school, where a woman in her 60s pricked herself on a barbed wire fence.
She came in with a stiff arm. He prescribed ibuprofen, and sent her home.
Few days later she came in with a cramped hand. It was only after he saw the miniscule scab on the outer side of her hand, that he thought of tetanus, had no tetanus shots in stock, so immediately called an ambulance to bring one and take her to a specialized hospital.
Ever since that case, he always has multiple in stock. Normally, preventive tetanus jabs are not covered by insurance (€2,50 per shot), but since that case he pays them out of his own pocket.
As carpenter, when using reclaimed wood, I'm very happy with my tetanus shot I get every 10 years.
Also, lemme guess, a €2,50 tetanus shot costs $250 in the US? 😬
You can also get it from metal burs especially when overhead cutting pipe. My gear used to get covered in the stuff. Hard work oh yeah.
Hey Simon just wanted to say I love your videos and I have a really good pair of headphones and it sounds like you're playing a video game like Castlevania symphony of the night in the background even though I'm sure you're not lol I don't know if anyone else can hear it
My 2nd great grand uncle, Grenville Kauffman, my grandfather's older brother, literally died of tetanus from a rusty nail around 1913. It affected our entire family, as our grandfather became extremely afraid of contaminated wounds.
Guys I need help today I was getting exercise and I decided to sit on the swingset but I cut my upper leg and I didn't notice the small cut until later...im nervous. The last time I got the vaccine for tetanus was around 2 years ago. The wound isn't that big in fact I think it healed itself but it kinda hurts. Idk if I'm at risk or not. Help?
As a kid (5-6) I was at the summer cabin, I was running around with no shoes, I ran to the small pier and suddenly got stuck and felt a horrible pain.. a rusty nail went through my heel, so deep that my dad had to pick me up, off of it, bc I couldn't lift my leg, I was stuck.. so no choice, but a 2 hour car ride to the hospital with me screaming like a fire alarm.. got a shot and painkillers, an x ray, then a 2 hour car ride back to the cabin with me vomiting every 15 minutes and babbling like a lunatic, high as a kite..
Awful experience but a great "battle wound" story! I'd have fun telling that one to my kids- it's good to scare the crap outta them sometimes 🤣
Lucky you, these days they would give you some ibuprofen and tell you to suck it up.
@@Sniperboy5551 It was the wild 80's.. 😁
@@ogg5949 I've scared my nieces and nephew with the story, but my nephew already has his own "rusty nail" story.. those pesky rusty nails are everywhere..
@@GAMakin Yeah.. later in life I got pretty hooked on those meds.. "minkä nuorena oppii, sen vanhana taitaa" ~ what you learn young, you master when you are older.. 😬😁
I have old Stables at my property and ive always had Dogs , and about a year ago, i was digging with bare hands near where the old stable was, and got a rusty nail go into my finger. It was an old square shaped shoeing nail (so before the mass produced, round ones we use today) and i thought , "i hate needles ill sort this out my self.
So i cut open the flap of skin (as the nail went in my finger ) with a hobby scalpel and went to town cutting into my own finger ...... yeah fun times ...not! Anyway i got to the bottom layer and literally got a tooth brush and dipped in betadine scrubbed the shit out of that cut. Just like the Doctor did to me when i got stabbed in the hand, but he used local anesthetic on my hand , i just went in Full send, no pain meds , no nothing , and its one of the most painfull things ive done to myself .......... all to get out of a small prick at the hospital (im in Australia its all free, so no excuse lol) . And from what i heard here , it could survive my attempt at killing it even with the measures i took ..... next time ill just get the damn needle!
The kids of antivax parents should be shown videos like this. Not vaxing is failing your kid, this is why.
There's vaccines and then there's mRNA gene therapies. The two should not be confused with each other.
When I was ten, I cut my leg on a rusty nail. My mother, a nurse, gave me a Tetanus shot and all was well. When I was in my twenties, I was taking a load of trash to the road when I dropped a tuna fish can and promptly stepped on it slicing my foot open. I went to the doctor and got a tetanus shot...just in case. And again, all was well. True stories both.
Hey, I promise truth. Not entertainment.
I did find the image of you slicing your foot open on tuna can somewhat entertaining.
My parents made sure I got all the shots I needed including tetanus shots if called for. I'm very grateful that they did.
When I was 30, I stepped on a rusty nail. Did not get a tetanus shot. All was still well. Meanwhile this video literally just mentioned formaldehyde in the DTP vaccine. We can both write true comments..
That's how I get my tetanus shots. I just hurt myself occasionally and the doctor gives me a tetanus shot. And I'm good until the next time I do something dumb. And that could be any time now.
Oh, Simon. You glorious, bald, beardy fact boy. Having subscribed to all 1,000 of your channels, I feel like I have all the lovely factual and random content certain cable channels *used to* offer. Many thanks!
I have had it twice. First time when I was 19 working in a factory around metal scraps, second time in my late 20s (current day) working around appliances and getting cut
I remember being like 11 and I was playing in my neighbours garden and we were running around near the back of his garden and there was a fence panel with the rusty nails facing upwards and I stepped on one and it went straight through my shoe into my foot and I didn't go to the hospital and I was so lucky it didn't get infected or anything
Your beard looks exceptionally nice in this video, Simon
Haha I love that last line
8:45 gavin mcinnes changed his name to gaston 🤣
I would love to know where you got your research I'm genuinely intrigued. Everything I've ever found on this topic says quite a few things differently. I love to learn and form my own conclusions so any info from any one would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I found this video by far the scariest of Simon's videos. Stepped on a nail in the barn when I was little. Dad washed my foot with alcohol and that was all. I guess I'm lucky to be alive.
You were lucky, but you might have also been vaccined against tetanus. Depending on your age, you might have needed it for school.
@@tiffanysandmeier4753 I have no memory of any vaccination against anything except polio. In the early '50s polio was such a scourge, clinics were set up in local halls and we lined up with children from the whole area to get our shots. I arranged for my own tetanus shots when I was in my late teens.
@@Patricia-zq5ug In my late teens I thought I was bloody invincible. Arranging a shot is the last thing I'd done. Good on you for being smarter.
Unless you're older than about 65, you likely got a tetanus immunization as an infant, perhaps even a booster as a toddler.
@@itsapittie I am older than 65, and we'll never know the truth about this bc Mother is gone.
Few years ago I was fishing with my son in the small creek near our home. We dug our own worms, our poles are stored outside and the hook on my pole had been on there for a very, very long time. Many worms and fish had been on that hook. Somehow I got that hook stuck deep in my thumb after getting a fish off of it. Have fear of doctors and hospitals I did not want to be seen for it, but after one day my thumb was swollen, red, infected. In 36 hrs my neck and back were stiff and other early symptoms were occurring. I was 32 not having had a tetanus booster in over 10 yrs. Before the 2nd day was up I went to ER and got my booster. Everything cleared up. I'm no stranger to infections either being highly prone to MRSA, this was different than the dozens of staph infections I've had. I've also stepped. On a rusty nail but during childhood.
yup don't even have to watch this (but I'm going to) happened to me stepped on a rusty nail two days later red line traveling up my leg.
Hey Simon, please, please, please do a Casual Criminalist video on James Mitchell "Mike" DeBardeleben. The other day you mentioned that the Secret Service in the US is responsible for investigating money counterfeiting crimes on the Casual Criminalist, which made me think of DeBardeleben. He was a prolific counterfeiter, so much so that the Secret Service gave him a nickname: "the mall passer". When they finally caught and arrested him, the Secret Service agents found a lot more than counterfeit money. Together with the FBI he was charged with a whole litany of crimes (he wasn't even prosecuted for most of them). He was sent to prison for life and the agents who investigated him said that he committed just about every felony on the books.
Gr8 video factboy can you do something with this one 'dose vanilla flavour really come from beaver ass?it would be interesting to find out that one"thanks mate
I had a puncture in my foot from a nail in a goat pen. There was feces everywhere, I got a booster and all was good except my white shoe being pink now from the blood.
I still have the mark underneath my foot from a nail injury I got way back in the early 1990's. I was in the second grade and my school had an old plywood fire pit near the playground. The nail went straight into my foot and I had to limp to the reception office to call my parents. They took me to the hospital and the nail was extracted after a healthy dose of painkillers. It was long and red when they took it out. It was good none of my foot bones were punctured. I had a week off of school to recover with heavy antibiotics. Good times.
I had a client that experienced several infections from the side rails of a bridge going through their hip in a car accident.
My Aunt had to have her foot amputated because of an infection she caught by stepping on an old nail. She lived in the tropics where diseases seem to be more prevalent and where hygiene really is of the utmost importance. I lost an older brother to lockjaw (tentanus) when he was a child because a negligent dentist failed to sterilise his instruments (again in the tropics - Barbados).
My mom had this exact experience. She's was a small kid and stepped on a rusty nail on a beam of wood that went through her shoe and pierced her foot! They got her medical attention ASAP and she turned out okay. Though she definitely isn't a fan of being barefoot unless it's on the beach. 😆
This has happened to me. Except i just stayed home. lol
I had to get a tetanus boster after a partically bad scratch from my aunties cat (cause she always gets the more fisty cats, though that cat was one of her nicer cats otherwise I would of been way more cautious of him)
You can get cat scratch fever from cats
I got my first emergency tetanus shot at age 6 because I stepped in a rusty nail. The neighbor was building a new deck and I stepped on the nail when my mom and I were over visiting them. It went straight through my shoe and into my foot. I remember being surprised that it didn't hurt and after I pulled my foot straight off the nail, I went to my mom and told her what happened. She took me straight to the ER where they gave me many shots which, in my opinion, hurt worse than the nail. I still have a scar on the bottom of my foot where the nail went in. I'm also 100% sure I was in shock and that's why the nail didn't hurt.
Speaking of weird diseases, you might look up something called “Q Fever”. My brother contracted it several years ago, he was hospitalized for weeks, and his case was so severe, the doctors had to crack his chest open to access his heart and lungs, to keep them working. He nearly died, but managed to pull through. They were never sure where he picked up the pathogen, either a tick bite or a dead pregnant cat he’d found on his property. Q Fever has one of the lowest required amounts of bacterium to infect a person, just 10 individual bacteria need to be present to solidify its presence. It’s quite the beast, and has be flagged for potential bioterrorist qualities. Most people who get it are either farm workers, or animal researchers. With fewer than 1000 cases per year in the US, it’s an odd duck that usually surfaces on sheep and goat farms.
In Australia, anyone working with livestock is strongly recommended to be tested for Q-Fever and/or vaccinated. You need to be tested for prior infection as the Q-fever vaccine can have side effects on people with prior infection.
Microbiology means just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. Don't judge the safety of an object based on if it "looks" dirty or not.
I stepped on a rusty staple the was in a 2x4 on the ground and it went into my foot and it stopped at my toenail but it’s turning blue ish black around the area and it’s kind of concerning me
It's been a month did you get tetanus?
I don’t know, when I was 10 I was helping to clean up after a hurricane with my boyscout troop, I must have stepped on four or five nails that weekend. I can tell you it hurts like hell. None of them got infected, the area where the nails punctured was bruised but other than that everything healed just fine.
I got it from a rusted toilet bowl bolt while doing tile. Took less then a day for the effects to kick in, got the cut on the my right hand took a day for me to go get a shot and about a week before I had full control of my hand.
Am glad I had my shots, I used to dig old Victorian refuse tips for bottles and other goodies, sliced my paws on many an occasion.
when I lived in East Boston Mass as a child we played in the alley way behind our houses my cousin Adele got a rusty nail through her foot and had to get a tetanus shot at the Relief station on Breman Street
My late uncle John had lockjaw back in the day. He didn't think he needed any booster because he got it when he was in the army and that was good enough. He was working on fixing something and got a deep cut, but all he did was wash it out with the hose and slap a bandage on it. Well, he ended up in the ICU on paralytics and breathing support and luckily managed to pull through. He was a pretty big vaccine advocate after that, considering how awful his experience was.
I had my TDaP booster just a few months ago, I work in construction and have horses so I figure it's a good idea to be safe rather than sorry. Got it at pharmacy with my flu shot. And yes, I've stepped on at least 3 nails I can think if that actually went into my foot (and a 4th that popped through the shoe between my toes) but only 1 of those was as an adult and it wasn't at work but rather when looking at a house we were considering buying and walking through some very overgrown grass.
I don’t work in a industry where tetanus is a risk my vaccine is still current anyway
As a doctor and a horse guy, I'm kind of a tetanus vaccine fanatic. I've seen a case of tetanus -- you don't want it.
@@itsapittie good thing there’s an invention that helps prevent things like tetanus
I'm here watching what could've happened if I didn't have good healthcare and immediately went to the urgent care clinic to get my dTap update yesterday after stepping on an old rusty, wet, and dirty nail in my backyard. Was fixing a fence that broke during a storm and didn't even feel it go in, but I sure felt it in the 10 seconds I stood there unsure of how to proceed with my foot bleeding out the sides of the crocs :P
Love your TH-cam videos. I am interested to watch something on Legionnaires Disease. A friend of mine was gardening and used bagged potting mix. Within 3 hours he was taken to hospital first suspected of Covid. Two hours later was on life support and passed away a week later. Obviously I don’t want to ask his widow about the disease. I would like to know more about it though. Thank you for your very interesting shows. Lyn from Lemon Tree Passage, NSW Australia.
A friend of mine stepped on a rusty nail about 3 months ago which resulted in sepsis (he only just survived once it was diagnosed) and it's touch & go if he may still have his foot or lower half of his leg amputated. No mention of tetanus but sepsis was bad enough.
More reasons to never leave my safe house lol
Sent a very rusty nail, through a lemon (there's a tree on the property), and then through my hand between the 1st and 2nd knuckle. I was pretty young and I still haven't been able to explain to myself what I thought I was doing. It's a big property and I couldn't find my parents for like 15 minutes.
I stepped on a rusty nail in a field when I was a kid in the late 70's I ended up getting osteo myelitis it was horrible I ended up in the hospital for several weeks.
I was tree lopping and jumped out of a tree onto a 12INCH rusty nail that was hand crafted from the 1940s it went through my work boot through my foot and at least 7inches of the Nail poking out the top of my Foot,,i immediately pulled it out leaving flakes and shards of rust inside my foot and chunks of my inner foot stuck to the Nail Whilst onlookers threw up,,I NOW have a MAJOR PHOBIA REGARDING Old NAILS AS IT WAS INSANE THE AMOUNT OF PAIN AS I PULLED THE nail out i could feel tendons slicing and gripping the rusty nail as it spews blood and fragments of rust. I let it go and gang green set in as i had to keep working And 2months later my foot was falling apart i peeled 2 inches of meat off my foot along with half a toe my foot was rotten and thanks to the ladies at the hospital who squeezed drips of anti biotic ALL night every night for 4 days i kept my leg,,The surgeons has scheduled the amputation of my leg the next morning.
I had my DTAP shot as a kid and turned out I'm deathly allergic to the tetanus shot. I wasn't allowed to go outside without shoes on or play around the chickens or construction sites. Then four years ago, I was working on a farm when I took a nasty fall and tangled my leg in chicken wire. I honest-to-god thought I had utterly flayed the skin right off my leg (I was wearing shorts, and I can't emphasize how PAINFUL it was to have a metal wire slice down the entire length of my foreleg). I immediately thought, "Well, this is how I die. Tetanus. Just great." I was honestly shocked to see that my leg had not a single nick. Instead, it was a massive bruise that would take three months to heal. Still, that was enough to remind me not to mess around when I know I can't be vaccinated.
I honestly don't understand how any person with a wish to continue living and a moderately decent education can VOLUNTARILY not get vaccinated, and I pity the children who grow up knowing that a small cut can lead to a gruesome death. That's just flat out child abuse, really. It was a horrifying way to spend my childhood, constantly dreading every scrape and laceration, unable to do things with my friends, unable to go to camp because I'm not fully immunized, etc., to the point where I argued with an allergist about inducing a coma just so I could get vaccinated, spend a couple weeks in a hospital bed, let it go through my system, and then I'd be okay for the next 10 years. Not surprising, no allergist has agreed to the plan, but I hate being without a vaccine THAT much. Tetanus terrifies me as one of the worst ways to die.
Plus, since I'm not fully immunized, I can't work many jobs, including my dream job, which was to be an English teacher. Which makes it hilarious how entitled some people can be, to CHOOSE not to get a Covid vaccine based on internet stupidity, but then WHINE that they got fired from their jobs. Like.... yeah, no shit, that's how the world works. Welcome to MY life. (I definitely got my Covid vaccine, though. Vaccines save lives. I would honestly give anything to be fully vaccinated and NOT live in terror.)
Luckily, it looks like that the Tetanus vaccination gives you much longer immunity than 10 years (but the whopping cough one gives only very week immunity and should be administered more often).
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4826453/ - "95% of the population will remain protected against tetanus and diphtheria for ≥30 years without requiring further booster vaccination"
Rhov Anion exactly. Vaccines are how we effectively reduce disease prevalence, that’s why there’s an average of only 30 tetanus cases a year in the US
I think the rusty nail anecdote comes from the building trade where traditional material like plaster and cladding contained horse hair and other organic materials.
I had two major foot injuries as a child, one was stepping on a nail, the other from stepping on a circular saw blade that required 5 stitches. It’s astonishing to think I may not be alive today if it wasn’t for the scientists that focused on this disease to find a solution for it.
That thumbnail has the bottom of my left foot feeling funny.
How much coffee did Simon have before this episode XD Take a breath!
I haven’t watched TIFO in a year; am oddly surprised to see that Simon hasn’t grown hair, yet.
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if you just wanted the answer and none of the history or info you couldve just googled it
Squarespace is I fast if your happy with the templates. But as soon as you start messing with the colour palettes you can tie yourself in knots.
I just stepped on a rusty nail, I was demo-ing an old rotting deck that sink into the ground. And one of the pieces was slightling covering in dirt so I didnt see the nail. It was in a slimy rotting piece of wood with mold all over it.
I've stepped on many a rusty nail in my youth, it used to be a more or less yearly occurrence growing up on an old farm where I would play with my siblings in the barnyard of an old barn too broken down for my siblings and I to be allowed into, although that didn't always stop us. We kept up with our tetanus shots, but that didn't make the nails hurt any less when they'd pierce our feet. That and bee stings were two things that tended to happen each year to at least one of us.