Tetanus: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
Brief overview Symptoms: Mouth block, “devil’s grin,” swallowing disorders, laryngeal paralysis, irritability, restlessness, extreme tightening of trunk muscles, hyperextended back to vertebral fracture, respiratory paralysis. Causes and risk factors: Infection with Clostridium tetani even via the smallest wounds, spores in soil or animal feces; bacterium multiplies where oxygen is lacking (therefore, superficial wounds are less … Tetanus: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
