Tetanus boosters

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How often should you have them as adults ?Cut myself on a tin last night and wondered if I should get one.

check if you have had 5 doses of tetanus jabs as that then covers you for life. This is from the NHS website:

The full course of the tetanus vaccine consists of five doses. The primary course consists of three injections which provide protection against the infection for a number of years. The fourth and fifth doses are booster doses which help to maintain protection.

After the fifth dose, immunity remains for life and further boosters are not usually required, unless there is doubt about a person?s immunisation history, or you are travelling to a remote area of the world where treatment for a tetanus infection may not be readily available.

ah thanks - pretty sure must have had 5 then. We travelled to Kenya about 14 years ago and suspect they would have topped up then if needs be.