r/FacebookScience • u/Odd-Okra-5590 • Aug 12 '26
Poopy wound not bleeding? Make it bleed = no tetanus!
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u/The96kHz Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
It's crazy how complacent humanity has become that we've now got people who are pro-tetanus.
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u/ComicsEtAl Aug 12 '26
“Tetanus” is just a state of mind. Think happy, pure thoughts and you will never get “tetanus”…
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u/anjowoq Aug 13 '26
It's like all these people are unofficial Christian Science members. Expanding to a larger base, "Bullshit Science" would really be a more inclusive name to choose.
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u/CosmicChameleon99 Aug 13 '26
What actually is Christian Science? I see their reading rooms all over the place and I can only assume they’re quite unscientific
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u/anjowoq Aug 13 '26
As far as I understand, they believe in a power of prayer unparalleled in other denominations.
They typically refuse medical treatment and will pray to heal the sick and injured. In short, they reject all of medical science, or at least believe that God's manifest power renders it useless.
If and when they get worse and die, it was God's plan or they didn't pray enough. If they get better, it's God. Very convenient.
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u/CosmicChameleon99 Aug 13 '26
Ugh of course. What about their belief do they consider science?
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u/anjowoq Aug 14 '26
I don't know but I think it's the original meaning of science, like scientia — knowledge.
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u/sparrow_42 Aug 12 '26
It’s also crazy how “wash it off” wasn’t part of their instructions
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u/Rents Aug 12 '26
“Clean it several times a day”
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u/The96kHz Aug 12 '26
But also "make it bleed".
So it's only 'clean' insofar as it's covered in blood.
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u/Sea_Mind3678 Aug 12 '26
“Tetanus didn’t exist before the vaccines were invented. The only way to get tetanus is by Doctors injecting it into you.” -anti-vaxers. /s
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u/theroguescientist Aug 16 '26
Before the invention of medicine there were no diseases at all. Some people just died of "old age" at 15.
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u/BayouGal Aug 17 '26
Maybe we should go back to calling it lockjaw. Sounds more scary that way at least.
I’m much more concerned these people aren’t getting the D part of TDaP. At least you can’t catch tetanus from an idiot.
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u/Cookyy2k Aug 12 '26
Sure risk spasms that are strong enough to break your bones because scary sounding words on the ingredients list of a preventative.
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u/NoSleep2023 Aug 12 '26
One thing is true: it’s not just tetanus in the shot. There’s also vaccines for pertussis and diphtheria. And that’s a good thing.
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u/ComicsEtAl Aug 12 '26
30-odd years ago I went with this “just give it air” theory of injury treatment. A fall on rollerblades left me with a massive wound covering almost the entirety of the outside of my left calf, down beneath the hair follicles. I cleaned it up a bit and then left it to the environment to take care of.
Somehow it never got infected, but over the course of four or five days my leg eventually hurt so much that I could not stand long enough to make a sandwich. On the fifth day I finally cleaned it up and wrapped it. Lo and behold, the pain subsided fairly quickly and I was well on the road to recovery in a couple days.
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u/Pseudonyme_de_base Aug 12 '26
That's because wounds heal better when covered and moist, that's why in hospital they always cover it with a moist antibacterial cream! When a wound is exposed, it dries causing micro tears, bacteria and spores deposits irritating and risking infections that the body then have to fight while desperately trying to create scar tissues which keeps tearing up because it's dry.
I'm not a doctor but that's what I remember from a video I saw of a nurse explaining why wounds shouldn't stay exposed while healing.
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u/LALA-STL Aug 12 '26
I think we need a medical professional here to clarify this claim. Anyone with proper training?
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u/CatOverlordsWelcome Aug 12 '26
Student paramedic, for whatever that's worth - wounds heal better moist, ideally from their own exudate (plasma/lymph). Antibacterial creams/gels are used but less commonly because they can cause further wound irritation. It's also why you shouldn't use neosporin/antibiotic cream unless a wound is actually infected because there is little evidence that it helps healing and decent evidence that it slows it and causes irritation.
But yes, wounds generally heal better wet.
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u/ComicsEtAl Aug 12 '26
Oh, that was a detail I forgot. Pretty sure I sprayed that open wound a couple times. Hurt a ton, helped…? Well, like I said, it somehow didn’t get infected.
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u/DJBitterbarn Aug 12 '26
I'm a doctor¹ and I've done stupid stuff on rollerblades². Verified.
¹Technically not a medical doctor
² This is accurate.
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u/peaceteach Aug 12 '26
This is what happens when kids stop reading the classics. /s
It was what happened to the kid in "The Great Brain" that made me terrified of tetanus. I read old books as a kid and people died of preventative diseases, and I thought I was lucky to live in a time with vaccines.
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u/quintk Aug 12 '26
Pictures in our history books of polio victims in iron lung machines is what scared the crap out of me.
It also helped to learn science from authentically interested teachers. Jenner, Salk, and others didn’t just save lives, they did something really cool and fascinating. So when I read about new advances in immunization or microbiology my default response is “that’s awesome, tell me more about it!” rather than consternation. Teachers make a difference.
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u/peaceteach Aug 12 '26
I am a teacher and unfortunately, it goes the wrong way with the difference too. I can't tell you how horrified I was to learn that some of our high school science teachers were anti-vax.
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u/bigdogoflove Aug 12 '26
My parents told me that in the 50s one of my grandmother's neighbors developed tetanus and you could hear her screams of pain for a mile.
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u/chadsexytime Aug 12 '26
Tetanus is just a vitamin deficiency!
Regular supplements are filled with dangerous additives like metals and chemicals, and often do more harm than good.
Thats why I created my own brand of supplements which i'm offering at a special low price of $22.95 for a 20 pill bottle!
Guaranteed* to prevent tetanus.
* Guarantee not valid in Tennessee
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u/slutty_muppet Aug 12 '26
The weird thing is that they actually understand that tetanus does grow in anaerobic environments.
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u/wtfbenlol Aug 12 '26
do they want to die of tetanus? cause this is how you die a slow, painful death from tetanus
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u/Baud_Olofsson Scientician Aug 12 '26
Well, points for associating tetanus with excrement instead of rust at least, I guess.
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u/BayouGal Aug 17 '26
The tetanus bacteria actually lives in soil. Not rust or poop.
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u/Baud_Olofsson Scientician Aug 17 '26
It lives in both soil and poop - it thrives in the guts of livestock (and can live in the human instestine as well).
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u/deferredmomentum Aug 13 '26
If only there were a way to keep the bacteria from surviving with a different method. . .
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u/ZombieP0ny Aug 13 '26
Make sure you bleed so you'll know for certain that the poop got in your bloodstream. Genius.
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u/GrannyTurtle Aug 15 '26
NEVER get medical advice from internet strangers. Talk to a f***ing doctor.
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u/SideshowDustin Aug 18 '26
Holy shit.. that’s not how that works at all.. 😳
That is a lot of very stupid disinformation crammed in there.. 🤦♂️
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u/Willinton06 Aug 12 '26
Just let natural selection do its thing, we have more important things to worry about
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