Initial symptoms of tetanus?
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Tetanus is a kind of surgical infectious disease, the cause of which is the infection of tetanus bacilli after passing through the wound and entering the body. Because tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria, it is most likely to cause tetanus if deep wounds are contaminated by soil, livestock manure and other substances that are prone to tetanus bacteria, because the deeper the wound is, the less oxygen there is. Once tetanus occurs, the mortality of patients is very high, up to 30% - 50%, so do not take it lightly. Initial symptoms of tetanus? Let's talk about it
Initial symptoms of tetanus?
At the beginning of the disease, patients will feel the neck and shoulder muscles are tense, especially the hands and feet close to the wound will also have abnormal feelings. With the development of the disease, the patient's muscles gradually become stiff, unable to open his mouth, speak, bite, and even walk hard.
Clinically, it can evolve into continuous ankylosis of skeletal muscle and paroxysmal spasm. If the condition worsens, the interval between attacks becomes shorter and shorter, and eventually it develops into one attack every five minutes. Severe patients will have laryngeal spasm, asphyxia, pulmonary infection and respiratory failure.
The course of disease is generally 3-4 weeks. If active treatment and no special complications occur, the degree of attack can be gradually reduced, and the average remission period is about 1 week. But muscular tension and hyperreflexia can continue for a period of time; Recovery period can also appear some mental symptoms, such as hallucinations, speech, behavior disorders, but more can recover on their own.
matters needing attention
Due to the patient's continuous spasm, sweating, so daily consumption of heat and water loss is more. Therefore, great attention should be paid to nutrition (high calorie, high protein, high vitamin) supplement and adjustment of water and electrolyte balance. If necessary, central parenteral nutrition can be used.
