Early symptoms of tetanus?

summary

When there is wound infection, many people will worry about their own tetanus, because the harm of tetanus is very big. However, because some wounds on the body are relatively small, it is not easy to be found, and the occurrence of this situation will increase the risk of tetanus, so we should know more about the symptoms of tetanus in our life, so as to discover the occurrence of the disease in time. So what are the symptoms of tetanus? Let's talk about it.

Early symptoms of tetanus?

Tetanus in the early onset does not appear too obvious symptoms. Patients usually only have symptoms of general discomfort and muscle soreness. With the aggravation of the disease, patients will have difficulty in opening their mouth due to masticatory muscle spasm. In severe cases, patients will also have mouth closed.

In the prodromal phase of tetanus, patients will appear general fatigue, dizziness, headache, chewing weakness and irritability and other symptoms, some patients will appear local pain and muscle strain symptoms, severe cases will cause convulsions and jaw tension and mouth opening inconvenience and other symptoms.

Tetanus in the attack period will make the patient's muscles appear continuous contraction symptoms, initially masticatory muscles, and finally will gradually appear face, neck and limbs and diaphragm contraction, but after the disease occurs, the patient's mind will still be relatively clear.

matters needing attention

Tetanus is a serious disease, so we hope that we can pay attention to the cleaning and nursing of the wound site in our life, and at the same time, we should be careful to deal with the wound, so as to effectively reduce the risk of tetanus. If you have the above symptoms in your life, you should be alert to the occurrence of tetanus and go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible to prevent the occurrence of tetanus from harming your health.