When you get a nail in your foot without tetanus, it is possible to develop a tetanus infection, which can be life threatening in severe cases.
The everyday term tetanus is mainly tetanus infection, which occurs when the bacterium Clostridium tetani attacks the body through a cut or wound in the skin. Tetanus infection can occur in patients who have been stabbed with nails, especially rusty or soiled nails, and can be injected with tetanus antitoxin.
If the patient is not injected with tetanus antitoxin, it will not affect the patient too much if the patient is not infected with tetanus and is treated with active anti-inflammatory drugs to promote wound healing. However, if the patient is infected with tetanus, there will be generalized weakness, headache and dizziness, weakness in chewing and local muscle tension.
Continue to develop, can open the mouth difficulty, teeth closed and other typical symptoms, can be complicated by pulmonary atelectasis, pulmonary embolism, heart failure, secondary infection, gastrointestinal bleeding and other conditions, may endanger the patient’s life.
Therefore, after the nail is stuck to the foot, patients are advised to follow the doctor’s instructions to inject tetanus antitoxin.