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do all tetanus jabs include diphtheria protection?
BillieTheBot
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i am basically trying to sort out my travel vaccinations.
i visited my doctor yesterday but tbh, he wasn't much help. he just told me to look on google to see what i need and book myself in with the nurse :yeees:
anyway, i've pretty much figured that i need the following vaccinations - diphtheria, tetanus, hep a and typhoid.
thing is, when i'm looking online, the tetanus ivaccination seems to be combined with the diphtheria vaccination too. can you get the diphtheria injection on its own?
about a year ago now, i was attacked by a dog in work. i was taken to a&e and i was given a tetanus injection. now, i have no idea whether this injection included protection for diphtheria. as it was in a&e and the fact i've just changed doctors (and they still don't have my history on their system), the docs have no idea either.
if i request to have it and have a second dose, will it make me poorly?
i visited my doctor yesterday but tbh, he wasn't much help. he just told me to look on google to see what i need and book myself in with the nurse :yeees:
anyway, i've pretty much figured that i need the following vaccinations - diphtheria, tetanus, hep a and typhoid.
thing is, when i'm looking online, the tetanus ivaccination seems to be combined with the diphtheria vaccination too. can you get the diphtheria injection on its own?
about a year ago now, i was attacked by a dog in work. i was taken to a&e and i was given a tetanus injection. now, i have no idea whether this injection included protection for diphtheria. as it was in a&e and the fact i've just changed doctors (and they still don't have my history on their system), the docs have no idea either.
if i request to have it and have a second dose, will it make me poorly?
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i just need to know that if the standard tetanus jab also includes vaccine for diphtheria. i know that i am covered for tetanus as i had the vaccine about a year ago. just worried that if i have a second dose i'll become ill.
Have been massively over vaccinated, and the only one I've ever had a problem with is BCG.
have got myself booked in with a nurse next monday so hopefully i'll have them all sorted then! hate needles though :grump: