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How does the bacteria in tetanus affect the cellstissuesorgans once it enters the body?
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What are the consequences for not getting a tetanus shot?
The simple answer is that you could get tetanus. Tetanus is a serious disease that attacks your nervous system. It causes locked jaw, neck stiffness, difficulty swallowing, rigidity of the stomach, muscle spasms, seizure-like activity, and death in about 10-20% of patients. It is common in soil and spread through bacteria that enters the body through cuts in the skin, so you don't need to be near someone who is infected to get the disease.
How does the tetanus attack and spread?
Tetanus attacks in open wounds, such as a fresh cut. When soil, saliva, or even feces gets into contact with it, Clostridium tetani attacks the body. Also, Tetanus can occur when rusty nails puncture the skin. Tetanus occurs in the Central Nervous System(brain and spinal cord).
Whats the symptoms of tech nus?
Tetanus symptoms can appear anywhere from two days to several weeks after the bacteria enters the body. The symptoms of tetanus include headaches, jaw cramping, involuntary muscle tightening and stiffness, trouble swallowing, seizure, and high blood pressure and heart rate.
What is the cause of tetanus?
Tetanus, or lockjaw is a serious infection caused by Clostridium tetani bacteria which produce a toxin that affects the brain and nervous system. The toxin leads to stiffness in the jaw muscles as well as other muscles. The infection can cause severe muscle spasms, serious breathing difficulties, and can ultimately be fatal.Clostridium tetani spores can be found most commonly in soil, dust and manure, but also exist virtually anywhere. If deposited in a wound the neurotoxin interferes with nerves that control muscle movement.
What is a tetanus shot for?
A tetanus shot is an injection that vaccinates the recipient from an acute bacterial disease also known as tetanus or lockjaw.A tetanus shot contains the tetanus toxoid - which is an inactivated form of the toxin Clostridium tetani.The vaccination against tetanus is normally included in a combined vaccine called DTaP that protects against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping-cough (pertussis).Read more at:tetanustoxoid
When you get a cut what enters the body?
May be bacteria.
A bacterial infection results when bacteria?
A bacterial infection results when bacteria enters the body.
What fights bacteria the enters the body?
white blood cells
When the virus enters a bacteria it leaves behind?
outer coat
What happens if bacteria are not trapped before air enters the lungs?
You get pneumonia
What happds if bacteria are not trapped before air enters the lungs?
you get pneumonia.
If bacteria are not trapped before air enters the lungs they can cause what infection?
Pneumonia
