Notify your doctor if you have a laceration and any of the following:
- Foreign body in the wound
- Joint pain
- Laceration is more than 1/2 inch in length
- Laceration to the face, hands, feet, or genitals
- Loss of function
- Numbness and tingling
- Persistent bleeding for longer than 20 minutes
- Pus draining from a wound
- Fever over 101 degrees F (38.3 C)
- Weakness or fatigue
- Worsening pain
- Worsening swelling
- You have a dirty wound and you have not had a tetanus booster in the past 5 years
- You have not had a tetanus booster in the past 10 years
- Worsening skin redness:
- Red streaks that spread from a wound:
