Patient's question:
I just had a baby, but after a couple of days, I noticed the baby was very irritable and cried a lot. The baby also had spasms all over the body and couldn't feed properly. After a thorough examination, it was discovered that the baby had neonatal tetanus. What is neonatal tetanus? What kind of help is needed: What is neonatal tetanus?Doctor's answer:
The main cause of neonatal tetanus is the use of unstrictly sterilized scissors to cut the umbilical cord during diagnosis and treatment, or the lack of cleanliness in the hands of the practitioner, or the neglect of umbilical cord hygiene after birth. The mode of transmission is often the use of unsterilized scissors or strings to cut the umbilical cord; when the hands of the practitioner or the cotton gauze covering the umbilical cord stump are not strictly sterilized, Clostridium tetani can penetrate through this. Neonatal tetanus can occasionally occur again after inadequate sterilization during vaccination. Clostridium tetani is not an aggressive bacterium; it only causes tetanus through the intense pain of the tetanus toxin and septicemia. The tetanus toxin is the second most toxic toxin known, after botulinum toxin, with a lethal dose of approximately 10?? mg/kg.