Guest guest Posted September 6, 1998 Report Share Posted September 6, 1998 What other information does anyone have regarding tetanus reactions? When our first baby had his reaction to the third DPT ('89), I did some research in old medical books at our little local library. (Lame, I know, but it was a start). One of the things that our baby suffered from after the shot was that his tongue swelled up tremendously. It looked huge and really weird. In one of the medical books which listed " symptoms " , I looked up " tongue " ...then found where it listed swollen tongue. The only thing it spoke of (ONLY thing) as causing a swollen tongue was an allergic reaction to.....guess what..something about tetanus vaccine. It mentioned something about horse (?) serum. Does this make sense to anyone? Janet W. The beginnings of our homestead, homeschool, and home business resource page! What else would you like to see placed on it? http://spitfire.cwv.net/~clover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 1998 Report Share Posted September 6, 1998 Janet, Well a swollen tongue is a severe anaphylactic reaction but to which component of the vaccine I'm not sure. Without knowing which vaccine and having the product insert for it I really can't say what it was. It could have had the horse serum in it(isn't that lovely!!) and that could be what he reacted to...though it could have been numerous other things too. Yup I'm no help at all on this one. Re: Tetanus reactions From: clover <clover@...> What other information does anyone have regarding tetanus reactions? When our first baby had his reaction to the third DPT ('89), I did some research in old medical books at our little local library. (Lame, I know, but it was a start). One of the things that our baby suffered from after the shot was that his tongue swelled up tremendously. It looked huge and really weird. In one of the medical books which listed " symptoms " , I looked up " tongue " ...then found where it listed swollen tongue. The only thing it spoke of (ONLY thing) as causing a swollen tongue was an allergic reaction to.....guess what..something about tetanus vaccine. It mentioned something about horse (?) serum. Does this make sense to anyone? Janet W. The beginnings of our homestead, homeschool, and home business resource page! What else would you like to see placed on it? http://spitfire.cwv.net/~clover ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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