How can you get tetanus?

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Tetanus is a very terrible disease, the death rate is as high as 40%. You may feel that there is no need to be nervous about a small wound? But did you know that according to the report of the World Health Organization, about 1 million people die of tetanus every year in the world, and the most common tetanus in life is caused by improper wound treatment. How can you get tetanus? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

How can you get tetanus?

After all open injuries, tetanus bacilli and its toxin can invade through the wound. If the wound is deep and the pollution is serious, the possibility of tetanus will be greatly increased. Including burns and frostbite, which need surgical treatment but have not been treated for more than 6 hours.

After being bound by rusty iron nails, the wound is deep and narrow, especially easy to form a local relatively hypoxic environment, which inadvertently creates a good condition for the growth and reproduction of Clostridium tetanus. All sharp and deep wounds should break the cold, and it's the same to be stabbed with new nails.

Patients with diabetes, vasculitis, etc. are prone to chronic wounds that can not be healed, and the risk of wound infection is high; The wounds of patients with perianal abscess and colorectal ulcer are easy to be polluted by feces. Therefore, if these patients have a long history of disease and heavy pollution, they should also be alert to the risk of tetanus.

matters needing attention

In daily wound treatment, if the wound is deep and there are bacteria in it, the cold needle must be broken to prevent the complications and reduce the occurrence of tetanus. When breaking the cold, pay attention not to eat spicy food and seafood to prevent the effect of tetanus.