I don't know, but think iron oxide for a moment. What happens when you step on a rusty nail? You get iron oxide in your body. What else? You need a tetanus booster. Why, because iron oxide could give you tetanus.
Actually tetanus doesn't live on iron oxide at all. It only lives on organic material.
But why rusty nails? I mean I've always been advised about tetanus because of rusty nails. Not the thorns I regularly remove, but the damn nails!
Same here. Always rusty nails!
Because rusty nails are usually accompanied by decaying wood, grass, moss, bugs, etc.
It's because rusty nails are usually found on old wood and if the nail penetrates then the tetanus on the wood has a way to enter the body.
You get iron oxide in your body
if you didn't have iron oxide in your body you would suffocate.
haemoglobin is the metalloprotein that carries oxygen around your body, it uses iron to carry oxygen around the body (real explanation vastly more complicated, but it's close enough)
That's also why both blood and rusty nails are red, iron oxide is red.
I never even thought about that! Thanks.
Oh boy.
I'm no expert. But I did read Iron oxide. And I have stepped on many rusty nails. And I have had to get booster shots for tetanus because of it. If indeed they are putting that in there, it would have to be considered a risk factor in my book.
Tetanus has absolutely nothing to do with rust.
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