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Tetanus vaccine after injury
My 2 and half year old baby girl has undergone small cut in her finger yesterday . We dressed up the wound after clean it up.
Is she require immediate tetanus vaccine. As per her regular vaccination chart , she has given 4 doses of vaccination till she is 2years. Kindly advice.
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Hi thanks for writing to Practo consult. If child has had clean wound and is immunized completely you do not require any TT . But if it was dirty wound you require TT.
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