How long does it take for symptoms of tetanus to appear?
You didn’t read my answer so here it is again: “Get a tetanus booster if you haven’t had one in the past 10 years, or don’t remember when you got your last one, but don’t get one because you stepped on a rusty nail. The bacterium that causes tetanus is Clostrodium tetani and C. tetani doesn’t live in rust, it lives in feces-contaminated soil. Unless the nail was lying in dirt, you don’t have to worry about a tetanus infection but you still have to be concerned about other bacteria. Of course the skin is purple — venous blood has leaked out into the tissue. And of course it hurts and throbs even when resting. Why wouldn’t it? You’ve had recent trauma. You have options. You can rush out and be seen now or you can wait until morning and see your own doctor. You’d probably be given a tetanus booster as a precaution and because medical staff don’t want you and a lawsuit to come back and haunt them later for not having done this. The first thing you should have done was to allow the wound t
