What should you pay attention to after getting tetanus? Start with these four aspects!

What we usually call tetanus is a common infectious disease. In order to avoid the occurrence of this disease, tetanus vaccine needs to be injected at the right time. If the wound is not deep, only disinfection is needed. If it is serious, a skin test is required before injection.

1. There are two types of tetanus shots injected after an injury: one is the commonly used refined tetanus antitoxin, which can cause anaphylactic shock, so an allergy test must be done before injection; the other is tetanus immunoglobulin, which has no allergic reaction, so no test is required before injection. No matter which injection your child receives, there is no need to worry since no adverse reactions have been found.

2. Small wounds will not cause tetanus infection

Tetanus bacteria are anaerobic bacteria and conditionally pathogenic bacteria. They can only grow and reproduce under anaerobic conditions or when the wound is deep and accompanied by aerobic infection. Tetanus bacteria mostly grow in soil and rust, so if the wound is deep and contaminated with soil or is pierced by rusty iron objects, tetanus antitoxin should be injected.

3. If the skin is just scratched and the wound is not deep, there is no need to inject tetanus antitoxin as long as proper cleaning is done . Or you can just use some disinfectant such as mercurochrome to wipe it on the surface. If the wound is dry and there is no exudate, there is no need to wipe it again.

4. Because tetanus antitoxin is an immune horse serum, it is a foreign protein to the human body and has antigenicity (allergic reaction), so an allergy test should be performed before using the medicine. If the test result is negative, tetanus antitoxin can be injected directly.

If the test result is positive, desensitization injection should be performed, that is, tetanus antitoxin is injected in small doses divided into 4-5 times. If tetanus antitoxin has been used for more than one week, skin testing must be repeated if it is used again.