Compost - Health Warning

Last time I tried to get a tetanus booster injection I was told I dont need it by my GP.
They are only available to farmers he said.

Why was it that it was only the older men that disliked the rats?
Guess the younger ones thought they were cuddly.:lollol:

I would have thought its an everyday occurrence to come across rats in sewers

Personally I cant wear gloves unless the spines or thorns are too much, I hate wearing gloves at work, even though H&S says we should.
Its a modern fad that got entirely out of hand:D

 

I tend to agree with Aaron - there's more reporting these days, though I also suspect that there is also more awareness about Weils and Lyme by the medical profession. (well maybe some of them :D)

I do know that the tick population that can carry Lyme disease has increased considerably in recent years. In Scotland some of the increase has been put down to increased red deer numbers and to climate change.
Our son frequently heads off to the hills for a spot of fishing and camping and often finds himself host to a tick or two after tramping through heather and bracken. He now carries special tick tweezers in his first aid kit.

 

OOOOps hic, missed the word small :o, i'll try better tomorrow :thumb:

 

Hi!
I got a booster jab last year. I asked at reception, who said come on Thursday at 00.00pm? the nurse is in that day and I got a booster jab.
I thought the surgery got paid extra for all the jabs they did?
I'm lucky, never need to visit them for anything else!

Don't really know why it was the old blokes who disliked the rats!
But it was not sewers especially, they were taking about water tunnels along the banks of The Severn, probibly just experience that's all!

As for not wearing gloves, got to hand it to you, how would you challenge someone to a duel at dawn,without you glove to slap his face.
It has to be a him, a proper gent would never slap a lady!:hehe:

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I make no appologies for going back to an old posting, but an obituary in the paper of Andy Holmes aged 51years old, an olympic gold medal rower who won with Steve Redgrave.

It stated he contacted Weil's disease (a rare condition that rowers can pick up from infected water) earlier this month.

Very sudden indeed!

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Not just from water. It can be risky drinking beer straight from the bottle as young people tend to do. In pubs these bottles can be stored in cellars. Cellars have rats and they can be urinating on the bottles. They can transmit the infection.

 

Eeek, i'm drinking wine straight from the bottle at the moment.

Sad news about Andy Holmes Makker. Not a good age to pass.

 

Hmm.... I just thought I'd pop on for a browse just before bed, and I'm now messing myself becayse my toddler picked up a stone from the river this afternoon while he paddled in his wellies.

Gawd....

 

I'm sure your toddler will be fine Victoria. I used to visit my grandparents on their farm when I was a kid and fell into all sorts of puddles and other unmentionable places, with no ill effects (apart from being told off repeatedly of course!)

 

Thanks peeps.

It does make you panic though. In the summer I found a little tick on him in a rather nasty place ! Got it off with tweezers and cleaned area, only to be told two days later by the lady across the road that she had lymes disease from a tick bite.

Interestingly Marley, my middle son has a severe peanut allergy. Damn scary stuff! Didn't know until a year ago, when he ballooned in front of us while we ate a curry. I can 100% state that it was not down to cleanliness !!!!! :hehe: I know what you mean though, and do agree completely about being too clinical in our environment.

We do have to encourage washing hands a lot however, when we come into the house, as we have a nut free home, so we can relax more. Stupidly, I did not wash my little ones hands straight away yesterday :dh: I was fussing about putting the chickens to bed. Lesson learned! I'll be watching him like a hawk for a few days.