Tetanus disease

Tetanus disease

Tetanus disease

Most of us have heard about this disease, and many people, including myself personally before entering the Faculty of Medicine, I thought of the diseases that afflict the human when the glass went into his body! And, of course, when we study medicine at the Hashemite University proved the error of my idea, and I was right in my thinking, and this simple article presents us this disease in a way that ask God to benefit everyone, and shows us how a small wound may cause fatal disease!

Definition of the disease

It is a severe disease resulting from the infection of bacteria with bacteria called Tyleni Clostridium where the secretion of blood in the blood called tetanus poison, and leads to contractions in most muscles of the body and the most dangerous is the muscle spasm of the respiratory system, which may lead to death.

Conclusion

Tetanus disease is caused by a bacteria called the chlosteridium Tetani, where the patient suffers from the injury of the intervention of these bacteria to the area of ​​the wound, and then to the blood, and the most important symptoms of the disease is a lock in the throat with severe contractions in all parts of the body and nervous convulsions with a natural sensory system, Lead to special complications on the respiratory system, which may lead to death, and the most important things in the treatment to give the patient muscle relaxants and care of the patient’s respiratory system, and prevention is to care for wounds and tetanus vaccine.