Health tips: tetanus is an acute specific infection caused by the invasion of human wounds, growth and reproduction, and toxin production. Tetanus is a serious threat to human health, and even leads to the death of patients, which should cause great concern. Let's take a look at how to prevent tetanus!
How should tetanus be prevented
Basic methods
1. Treat the wound properly. For small wounds, wash the mud and ash outside the wound with clean water or soapy water. If possible, apply iodine or Yunnan Baiyao on the wound, then cover the wound with a clean cloth and wrap it up gently. For some large wounds, you can wrap the wound with clean gauze first, and then quickly go to the hospital for treatment.
2. Pay attention to maternal health.
3. Take preventive injections.
4. Take Chinese medicine orally.
Early detection
Tetanus patients often have a history of trauma, especially those contaminated by rust or dung. It usually begins to develop in 1-2 weeks after the wound. Although this disease is very dangerous, it can be cured as long as it is found early and treated in time. Therefore, for patients with tetanus, the key to rescue is early detection.
The early symptom of tetanus is muscle spasm, which is often called 'cramp'. The earliest symptom of most patients is facial muscle spasm, which is mainly manifested by the muscle spasm and pain in front of both ears when chewing food. Many patients mistakenly thought it was dental disease and went to the Department of Stomatology. Stomatologists often find only masticatory muscle and temporal muscle spasm, but there is no dental disease causing mouth opening difficulty. The more patients are asked to open their mouth, the more they can't open it, or even close it. At this time, if there is a slight negligence, it can be ignored and delayed. However, if there is diagnostic knowledge in this respect, most of them can be cured if they think of tetanus and get timely treatment. But many stomatologists do not necessarily have this knowledge, so there are many delays. Once the whole body muscle spasm twitch, and then turn to think of tetanus, the prognosis is very bad.
The method of tongue pressing test for early diagnosis of tetanus. In recent years, the patient's tongue was sliced by force, or even a small spoon was put under the patient's tongue. If the patient's teeth are closed immediately and the tongue depressor is not easy to pull out, it is positive, which can be judged as the early manifestation of tetanus. All of them will have typical tetanus symptoms within 4-30 hours.
Experts remind: tetanus should be how to prevent, read the above introduction, you should know how to prevent tetanus! Experts say, to always be alert to tetanus, understand the relevant knowledge, if you find physical discomfort, please go to the hospital immediately, so as not to delay the illness!