What does tetanus incubation mean?

Tetanus incubation period mainly refers to the patient from wound infection to wound injury to tetanus disease symptoms attack this period of time. Tetanus incubation period is generally about 1 week, some patients are even very short, can reach 24 hours of onset, there are longer time can reach several months. Therefore, for suspicious serious wounds to carry out effective treatment, such as some deep wounds, some pollution, and even some broken, comminuted foreign matter into the wound, should be timely tetanus toxin injection, to prevent Clostridium tetanus infection. For tetanus wound treatment is very important, the wound needs timely debridement disinfection, reduce oxygen-free environment, application of hydrogen peroxide, iodine and other disinfection, to prevent Clostridium tetanus reproduction. Even for uncertain wounds, they should be treated in a high-level hospital in time.