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Is It OK To Have The Tetanus Booster And The Synvisc Shot On The Same Day?

Hi, I am scheduled to have a Synvisc injection in my knee tomorrow. I volunteer at a local animal shelter and was scratched by one of the cats yesterday. The wound looks fine, but I'm having a tetanus booster tomorrow morning. Is it OK to have the tetanus booster and the Synvisc shot on the same day? Thank you
Fri, 9 Jan 2015
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Hello,
I understand your concern.
I am Dr. Arun Tank, infectious diseases specialist, answering your query.

In my opinion you should go for it.

Both the thing have different mechanism of action and they do not interfere with each other.

Synvisc injection is used to replace the fluids in the knee joints. It has nothing to do with antibosirs in the body, inturn it is inert material. While tetanus toxoids generate the antibodies in the body against the tetanus bacilli.

I will be happy to answer your further concern, you can ask me on bit.ly/DrArun.
Thank you.
Dr Arun Tank
Infectious diseases specialist.
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Is It OK To Have The Tetanus Booster And The Synvisc Shot On The Same Day?

Hello, I understand your concern. I am Dr. Arun Tank, infectious diseases specialist, answering your query. In my opinion you should go for it. Both the thing have different mechanism of action and they do not interfere with each other. Synvisc injection is used to replace the fluids in the knee joints. It has nothing to do with antibosirs in the body, inturn it is inert material. While tetanus toxoids generate the antibodies in the body against the tetanus bacilli. I will be happy to answer your further concern, you can ask me on bit.ly/DrArun. Thank you. Dr Arun Tank Infectious diseases specialist.