The best way to reduce the risk of tetanus is by immunisation. All children, beginning at age 2 months, and adults
need protection against these three diseases. If you aren`t immunised , you can get Tetanus more than 1 time.
Tetanus can be stopped by using antibiotics to kill toxin. Sedation is often given for muscle spasms.
Who should not receive these vaccines?
Generally people who have bad
reaccions to vaccines.
Are vaccines effective ?
Yes they are a 95% effective.
-Tetanus is not contagious, So you can`t get it from other person.
Tetanus is a strong illness. About one million of people get Tetanus in a year. The most common is the neonatal tetanus. Date rate is about 300.000 and 500.000 each year around the world. Aproximating in a year, USA have a rate over 50-100 reported cases. It is most common in people that:
- 65 aged person or more.
- Infants and babies if mother is not innmune to the vaccine.
- Person with diabetes.
- Person that consume drugs.
Tiffness of the jaw (lockjaw) is the most common symptom of tetanus. Is difficult to open the mouth with this . Other muscles became riff like the abdomen or the face.The person can have fever, rapid pulse , have muscles sparms and perspire heavly. Noise and light can provoque seizures in a person with tetanus. Babies and infants don`t have the ability of stuck .
Arthur nicolair discovered the Tetanus. He was a German phisician. He was an Professor of internal medicine.He retired his self in the oficce when nazis created a law that say that jews couldn`t work being civil servants. He comitted suicide , when nazis where going to deport him to the Theresienstadt concentrating camp. 4 February 1862-28 August 1942
Shibasaburo Kitasato was a japanese phisician and bacteorogist during the prewar period. He created a
Serum therapy for tetanus.
January 29, 1853-June 13, 1931 (aged 78)
How was Tetanus discovered ?
Arthur nicolair discovered the Tetanus in 1884. He couldn`t study the illness closely , but he confirmed that bacteria generated toxin by inyecting soil containing the bacteria into animals. 5 years later a japanese Shibasaburo Kitasato cultivated tetanus bacterium in pure culture. A year later he could create a antitoxin. After the first war year , english scientist , developed a better antitoxin that they used in The second war year .
How many types of tetanus exist ?:
There are 4 types :
Generalised Tetanus: Is the most common type. The 80% of the causes are produced by this type of tetanus.This causes painful sparms on muscles such as :the neck, trunk, and extremities. Or causes anormalities in the nervious system. You have a death rate over 10% or 20%.
Neotonal Tetanus: This exist at born. It is an infection in the umbilical stump. This have a duration of 4 days. It is faster than the others tetanus types. If the mother of the child has been vacunated to suffer the tetanus, the child can be help to give them passive inmunity. But this type have a 15% of death rate.
Local Tetanus: The porcent of fatal desease is of 1%.This type is when you have contractions and sparms in the same injury. It lasts for only a few weeks. It`s not so serious like Generalised tetanus, but if you don`t complete you treatment it can produce Generalised tetanus.
Cephalic tetanus: This is a rare case. It is sometimes produced in ear infections. The bacteria is in the ear or around the head. This causes , afeccts cranial nerves and facial nerves.
The toxin affects the interaction between a nerve and a muscle. It affects neonates to cause muscles spams. Is most common at 2 weeks of birth. It can be produced by having a poor sanitation.
