Tetanus

General information about tetanus

• Tetanus is a disease caused by a bacteria called tylenic clostridium. These bacteria can enter human blood when they have a wound. These bacteria are gram-positive. These bacteria are found in the soil and in the digestive system of different animals. These bacteria secrete the powerful toxin that causes the disease.
• The most important symptoms of the disease: lock in the throat with severe contractions in all parts of the body, and the occurrence of convulsions nerve, and the occurrence of complications, especially on the respiratory system, which may lead to death.
• To prevent tetanus, take good care of the wounds and take the tetanus vaccine
• To treat tetanus, the patient should be given muscle relaxants and care for his respiratory system.
• The most common form of tetanus is the so-called tetanus of the new baby. Bacteria pass through the umbilical cord to the child, and this type of tetanus kills more than 50,000 children every year around the world. There are also 15,000 women worldwide who die every year after birth, .
• Statistics indicate that there are 50 cases registered annually in the United States of America because of tetanus, most of them occur in elderly people who have passed the 60, and those who did not eat the scorpion, and in a few cases there are injuries among children.