Tetanus: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).

Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)

Medication

  • Side effects of various medications, such as phenothiazine (neuroleptic; nerve depressant) or metoclopramide (MCP; antiemetics, these are medications used to treat nausea and vomiting)

Environmental exposures – intoxications (poisonings).

  • Poisoning with strychnine – toxic substance in rat poison.