Have you ever stepped on a nail?

[Dspendragon]

So yesterday I was walking, and I felt pain in me foot. Looked down and saw nail in big toe (sorry for shody spelling its 3:00 in the morning for me)

[A Friend]

I stepped on a thumb tack once as a kid. Didn't notice it was there until I was going to bed.

[milon]

Actually, there was no spelling error except for 'shoddy'. 

And thankfully, no, I haven't stepped on a nail before.  Legos & large splinters are a different story, though.

[Listen1]

Once, wearing flip-flops I stepped on a huge rusty nail. The nail broke. I was kinda amazed, and relieved.

When I read the topic, I thought he was talking about finger nails. I was ready to enter a very nasty conversation.

[mumblemumble]

I have plenty of times.  Btw tetanus shots are almost never needed for this,  here is why : they treat too much rust in the system,  right? Most nails are galvanized or coated so they don't rust.  Even if they do,  rust aka ferris is also known as "iron"  nutritionally,  which is  needed in certain levels.  So unless you get a rusty nail to the brain or a big piece coming off inside,  stepping on one is more like a small dose of iron through your foot,  assuming its even rusty,  which will be probably within an acceptable amount especially if you have an iron deficiency.

Also yeah it hurts,  but does little damage if you don't push it through your foot... If its just a quarter inch deep, you are fine.

[MisterVertigo]

No, but the arthritis in my foot has flared up pretty bad this week and it FEELS like a nail going THROUGH my foot...

[anonymous456]

- Btw tetanus shots are almost never needed for this,  here is why : they treat too much rust in the system,  right? -

No, the tetanus shots are used to immunize you against a certain sort of bacterium that causes a horrible disease that can literally make you break your own back because your muscles tense up incredibly hard. If you get a vaccine, you get injected with a weakened and harmless form of the bacterium, so your body can go like "That's what that looks like, aha".

These things live in a dirty environment, often in some resistant spore form. So when you accidentally step on a rusty nail and the real deal happens to enter your body, your immune system instantly knows what it is and can fight it way more effectively.

[mumblemumble]

Humn,  i was always told it was from rust,  alright,  guess i might be wrong. Research proves you right,  sorry for that...  I guess my doctor in the past was a mallard

[KillTyrant]

Humn,  i was always told it was from rust,  alright,  guess i might be wrong. Research proves you right,  sorry for that...  I guess my doctor in the past was a mallard

I was going to link you to sources that flew in the face of your statements but alas, it was your doctor. So 1 of 2 things is true. Either your doctor is a quack and you should change primary care physician or you misheard/miscommunicated what he said. I hope its the latter versus the former.

[Kluge]

Humn,  i was always told it was from rust,  alright,  guess i might be wrong. Research proves you right,  sorry for that...  I guess my doctor in the past was a mallard

I was going to link you to sources that flew in the face of your statements but alas, it was your doctor. So 1 of 2 things is true. Either your doctor is a quack and you should change primary care physician or you misheard/miscommunicated what he said. I hope its the latter versus the former.

It's pretty common knowledge in the US that tetanus is caused by rust. It literally is rust, but tetanus is the medical term. -So you don't want rust in your body because it probably clots or something, but it's extremely rare and mostly a Mexican disease. It's only out of an abundance of caution we ever go to the doctor when we come into contact with rust. Sometimes, if you have large open wounds or burns, you want to get a tetanus shot because skin helps keep rust out of your bloodstream.

As you probably know, the number one cause of death by tetanus is exposure to old rusty fences on farms, so you need to get a tetanus shot before you go the farm, and obviously, us wise people know not to jump over any old fences because they might be rusty - so especially avoid fences at night because you can't verify whether or not they've rusted.

There has been some concern about how much iron is in our foods like cold cereals, but we found a couple decades ago that the iron is pure and non-oxidized (that is, it hasn't been exposed to sunlight and caused to rust), which our bodies need to make our bones strong.

[mumblemumble]

That is what I thought...see, ferris, rust "iron", are the same thing, people not getting enough in them is actually debilitating. In some countries they cook iron shaped "fish" so they rust into the food just enough so people don't get anemic.

This is why I was originally saying it, if it is indeed from intake of "rust" there must be a healthy range of it, and you must go OUTSIDE that healthy range to have an issue.

[anonymous456]

Are you people kidding around? If there's some kind of joke going on in here, please tell me because I'm assuming you are serious right now.

"It's pretty common knowledge in the US that tetanus is caused by rust. It literally is rust, but tetanus is the medical term. -So you don't want rust in your body because it probably clots or something, but it's extremely rare and mostly a Mexican disease."

That's like... that's straight like it's taken from some TV satire portraying the political far right or something.

Again, Tetanus is the name of the disease and it is caused by a bacterium that happens to live, among other places, on rusty nails.

[RickyMartini]

I once stepped on a big rusty nail. It was big enough to penetrate my sole and it came out from the other side.

It was extremely painful and hard to cure. Luckily though there is nothing left from that accident.


Edit: Also fucking w0t. Of course tetanus is a bacterium, who in their right mind said it's rust?

[Korn.Mil]

Oh crap, yes i was, and not one time i was at work and i just stepped on nail, that hurted as hell and i had much of work also. So i was not able to leave

[ItchyFlea]

Twice. First time was about 10 years ago, and boy did that bleed. Never really did heal right either. Every so often if I step on that foot the right way, I can feel the scar tissue pulling at the inside of my foot. Truly a strange (and slightly painful) experience.

The second time was a few weeks ago, the day after I got released from the hospital after having surgery. A nail in the foot is pretty high on the list of things you don't need to have happen after you've had surgery.