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Originally Posted by mrsD
A tetanus booster would not protect against whooping cough.
It is for exposure to TETANUS...from a wound or trauma involving penetrating dirty implements.
Whooping cough is Pertussis, which is a contagious upper respiratory disease.
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They're giving TdaP as boosters now, which means that you will get the pertussis vax as well as tetanus.
I'm with Dejibo-- "If I get cut on a rusty nail, then we can talk, till then, lets not tick off my immune system."
If you do a search for the CDC's Pink Book you can get the details on the disease itself and the vaccine, and see if you feel the risk of the diseases outweigh the risk of the shots. I'm not even convinced the risk of the TdaP/DTaP is worth it even for my kids to be honest (we actually pulled my son off the DTaP schedule and he gets pertussis free tetanus shots after he had some seizure-like behavior post vaccine).