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Dirts on the rabies injection site

Should we worry about environmental dirts and drops toching the vaccine sight? Intramuscular injection.If someone pours water and it touches the injection site or some kinda water in air...? How does this affect the efficacy of vaccine?

Elevated triglycerides and uric acid

Male , 38 years, 186 cms , 91 kgs. Total cholestrol is 180 mg/dL. Triglycerides 201 mg/dL. Vldl 40 mg/dL. Uric acid 7.2 mg/dL. Gamma GT 18 U/L. HBAlc 5.7. Sgot 24 U/L . Sgpt 30 U/L. I have fatty liver grade 1. I am not doing any physical exercise nor dieting. My sgpt and sgot were previously 70 and 50. Total cholestrol was earlier 210. Only thing that I did is increased water intake to 2 liters daily from .75 L daily. My belly size also reduced by 40%. I never felt that water suppressed my appetite instead it increases appetite which is why i dont reduce food. I avoid sugar. Does water intake improves metabolism . What is your recommendation?.

Multivitamin suggestion

Please recommend multivitamin and calcium tablet for 60+ years female with vegan option and dosage details...

Tetanus Shot

Hi, Recently my leg got a scratch ( minor) from a rusted object. I washed the scratch from soap. I took a single injection shot of tetanus in 2023. Do I need to again take a tetanus shot?

Rabiess... ...

Is there any risk of rabies ...as put my foot accidentally on blood from a dog blood which was on road ...i was wearing crocs shipper...I had scratch on foot

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