Summer is coming, people’s skin is mostly exposed, in the case of not being able to draw people’s attention to the situation, there are often scrapes, nails poking the palms of the feet or iron injuries to patients come to the clinic, which gives tetanus, a deadly killer, an opportunity to take advantage of. Tetanus is a specific infection caused by the tetanus bacillus from the wound invasion of the body, its mortality rate of about 20% to 40%. Be careful when the wound is deeply contaminated with serious tetanus bacillus mainly exists in the soil, human and animal feces, is an anaerobic bacteria, only in the anoxic environment to reproduce. If the wound is very shallow, the blood transport is not easy to be infected because the tetanus bacillus is not easy to be infected in the place where there is oxygen. If the wound is deeper and more contaminated, the possibility of tetanus is greatly increased. The summer temperature is high, the bacterial growth is active, the wound tissue oxygen consumption is large, the tissue necrosis rate is high, so it is easy to cause the occurrence of tetanus. Therefore, people should always prevent the occurrence of tetanus. The incubation period of tetanus can be up to 1 month Generally speaking, from the infection of tetanus bacillus to the appearance of symptoms, the short 1-2 days, the long up to two months, the average of 7-14. the shorter the incubation period, the higher the mortality rate. The shorter the incubation period, the higher the mortality rate, and once the onset of disease, the treatment effect is poor. Clinical manifestations of tetanus bacillus action in the human body will produce an exotoxin, the initial stage can appear mild fever, headache, muscle aches, followed by convulsions: very violent chewing muscle and trunk muscle convulsions, the patient often clenched teeth, the body involuntarily leaned back, sometimes the external environment, such as sound, light, vibration of the slight stimulation, can cause the patient violent convulsions and a lot of sweating, respiratory paralysis,. Death can occur due to asphyxiation. Prevention Therefore, prevention is extremely important. Once people have received external injuries, such as stab wounds, animal bites, etc., they should go to the hospital as soon as possible after strict debridement, according to the situation of timely preventive injection of tetanus antitoxin (injection should be made before the skin test to prevent allergic reactions), can effectively prevent the occurrence of tetanus. Through the above introduction, I believe that you have a better understanding of summer tetanus prevention. At a time when health-threatening factors are everywhere, we should not let go of any cause of physical abnormalities and go to the hospital for timely examination so that small problems do not become big diseases.