Can you get tetanus if your hand breaks a layer of skin

Hand simple broken layer of skin generally will not get tetanus. You can wash the wound with normal saline, and then use iodine or hydrogen peroxide solution disinfection can. If the rusty instrument scratches or wounds are deep, you need to go to the hospital for thorough debridement and disinfection, and tetanus antitoxin, prevention of tetanus. Because tetanus bacteria grow in soil and rust, and tetanus bacteria belong to anaerobic bacteria, only in an oxygen-free environment to survive and reproduce. Therefore, if the wound is relatively deep, it is easy to cause a large number of tetanus bacilli to breed, so it shows symptoms of tetanus infection, which is life-threatening. For patients with tetanus antitoxin allergy, tetanus immunoglobulin can be given.