How to treat tetanus

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Tetanus is a word that I believe everyone is familiar with. Anyway, I have heard it since I was a child. It is more popular. In fact, tetanus means that the skin on the body is broken, and it is infected by tetanus bacilli without recovery. Besides the obvious infection symptoms of the wound, tetanus also shows the weakness, dizziness and nausea of the patient after infection In some cases, when the condition is serious, the patient will have asphyxia and dyspnea caused by pulmonary infection. So how to treat tetanus effectively, let's see it together.

How to treat tetanus

First: in order to treat tetanus, it is more important that patients who can find the wound should first deal with the infection of the wound. Wounds that have not been healed must not be sutured without any treatment. Wounds that have been healed should also be carefully checked for residual bacteria inside the wound.

Second: the general onset period of tetanus is within 7 to 13 days after wound infection. Therefore, it is suggested that patients with visible wounds should pay attention to preventing wound infection during the period when the wound is not fully healed, which also prevents the occurrence of tetanus to a certain extent.

Third: tetanus in the treatment of the most commonly used is antitoxin, but antitoxin in the use of time must be done in advance for patients with skin allergy test, to avoid the treatment of allergic reactions, endanger the lives of patients. In order to effectively treat tetanus, antibiotics are also essential.

matters needing attention

Tetanus patients should also pay attention to the prevention of some complications, such as lung infection, asphyxia are more common, family care should also pay attention to prevent patients from falling out of bed to have unnecessary fractures.