14 Most Common Tetanus Symptoms

2. Numbness

Many survivors of tetanus infections have described the feeling as numbness that sets in from the injury site. This can sometimes be hard to spot when you’re already in a lot of pain from stepping on a nail or any kind of similar injury; snakebites, for example, can also be a cause of picking up tetanus – there are many kinds of germs that live in the mouths of snakes and other reptiles, and even if the snake is not poisonous, you can pick up a very nasty infection from a snakebite.

The numbness related to a tetanus infection happens because the infection starts to affect the nerves from the point of entry – and this often will also affect the wound healing, though this is not always a sign of having tetanus or not – and taking one symptom should never qualify as a rule. Sometimes it is tingling rather than numbness.