When wounds appear on the hands and legs of a person due to any type of injury and if they are not treated on time, he is suffered from tetanus.
Causes-
If wounds appear on any part of a person's body due to injury, bacteria are entered in his body through such wounds. These types of bacteria are found in the dung of a horse in a large numbers. If a child is fallen down on a dirty place and wounds are generated on any part of his body, it is high possibility to entering the bacteria in the body through those wounds which causes stimulation of nerves and this disease occurs.
Symptoms:-
In the symptoms of tetanus, the patient's back becomes curved like a bow, means bended frontward. The patient's neck becomes stiff, the mouth is unable to open wide properly, jaw is locked tightly, stretch begins in the muscles of the face, etc. Sometimes, these bacteria are also entered in the body of newly born babies due to using dirty instruments while cutting the navel or by tying dirty clothes.
Notes-
Many peoples believed that if tobacco is tied in the armpit and navel of the tetanus patient after soak it in water, it causes vomit and the patient gets relief.
Treatment of this disease by following drugs:
- Nux-vomica, Ignatia- If the patient is suffering from symptoms like- bending the back like bow, slanting eyes and the face, heavy breath, feeling breathless (short breathing) after doing little work or by walking,, etc., Nux-vomica 30 is very useful in such symptoms. In case of tetanus, if jaws are locked with bending the back like bow, Ignatia 30 can be given.
- Hydrocyanic acid- This drug is known to be very effective in the case of tetanus. This drug acts better on the spinal cord (back bone). Besides it, giving Hydrocyanic acid 6 is very useful in the condition of numbness of the muscles, face and back; locking jaws; breathing haltingly; foam starts to come from the mouth, the body becomes stiff, the back becomes bend,, etc.
- Cicuta Virosa- If the patient's body becomes stiff suddenly, feels unconsciousness, all the parts of the body starts trembling, body becomes weak after above symptoms, breathing haltingly, jaw is locked, and the back becomes curved, the patient goes on staring at a single point continuously, the food pipe becomes numb,, etc., Cicuta Virosa 6, 30 or 200 can be given to the patient according to above symptoms.
- Physostigma- Physostigma 3 should be given to the patient in the condition of increasing stimulation in the spinal cord, stiffness of the legs and spinal cord, expansion of the eyeballs and sometimes its contraction, etc.
- Carbolic-acid- Carbolic-acid is considered as very important drug in any type of symptoms related to tetanus. Doctors have used this drug successfully in the case of tetanus.
- Aconite- If the symptoms of tetanus have seen in a newly born child like- stiffed jaws, restlessness, crying loudly, fever, etc., giving Aconite 30 to the child is very useful.
- Belladonna- If the child's body becomes stiff or jaw is locked, giving Belladonna 30 is beneficial.
- Ledum, Hypericum- Ledum is given to the patient just after injury. If a person got hurts by falling down or by any way, he can be protected from tetanus by giving Ledum at that time. This drug is very useful for an animal too. If nail is inserted in the foot of any animal, giving Ledum at that time protects it from tetanus. If few days have passed after injury or inserting nails and pain starts increasing and decreasing through the nervous path, Hypericum can be given. If jaw is closed and the back is curved like bow due to injury, Hypericum 30 or 200 can be given and Ledum 30 or 200 can be given just after injury.
- Gelsemium- If tetanus patient moves his jaw randomly, Gelsemium 30 can be given.
- Stramonium- If tetanus patient is suffering from unconsciousness, block throat, numbness of the chest and aggravating disease by touching or just after coming in bright light, giving Stramonium 30 is known to be very useful.