Cut your hands with a kitchen knife without a tetanus shot

Tetanus is a special type of infection. It is mainly due to rust or soil or other contaminated metal products, stab or scratch the skin of the human body, so that tetanus bacteria invade the human body, causing the occurrence of diseases. Tetanus due to its lack of specific drugs, and its course of disease progress faster. Therefore, the mortality rate of patients is relatively high. Typical symptoms are a wry smile, opisthotonus, convulsions and drooling. Patients often die due to suffocation and respiratory failure, so if there is a suspicion of tetanus infection after being scratched by trauma, timely injection of tetanus antitoxin or tetanus human immunoglobulin within 24 hours to prevent it.