What are the early symptoms of tetanus

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Tetanus is caused by tetanus bacilli. It prefers to proliferate in an anaerobic environment, and then it will cause a series of symptoms due to the influence of exotoxin, such as muscle spasm caused by systemic muscle rigidity. Severe patients will die because of lung infection, and newborns will actually die because of tetanus, This is due to the umbilical cord infection caused by tetanus, so that when cutting the umbilical cord should be disinfected with iodine before further operation, it is recommended that patients go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible.

What are the early symptoms of tetanus

First: the early symptoms of tetanus are stiff smile, not smile, dysphagia and dyspnea. Neck will be stiff, there will be stiff limbs, if it is more serious, there will be a high fever, sweating and heart rate.

Second: the feeling of muscle rigidity in medium-sized patients is very obvious and frequent. The most typical symptom is that the teeth are closed, and paroxysmal spasm will appear. Patients will have purple face, and easy to suffocate. The key is that brain edema will occur because of extreme hypoxia.

Third: tetanus can be large or small, small, it can be cured quickly, but if it is very serious, then there will be failure of various organs of the body, and then there will be death, eventually death of respiratory failure or systemic failure.

matters needing attention

Usually, if you step on a nail, especially a rusty nail, you should go to the hospital for an injection to break the upwind antitoxin, otherwise it will cause the above symptoms and irreparable results.