Therapeutic target
Avoidance of complications
Therapy recommendations
- Elimination of the toxin by antitoxin (trivalent antitoxin against types A, B, and E; after type determination, administration of a monovalent toxin if necessary).
- For food poisoning antitoxin and symptomatic therapy.
- For wound botulism, surgical wound care and an administration of penicillin
- In infantile botulism, no antitoxin administration, but only symptomatic therapy.
- Symptomatic therapy (if necessary, antiemetics / drugs against nausea and emesis).
- Antibiosis (antibiotic therapy) for secondary infections.
- See also under “Further therapy”.