Symptoms of rabies patients

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Rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by rabies virus. It is common in dogs, wolves, cats and other carnivores. The clinical manifestations were water phobia, wind phobia, pharyngeal spasm and progressive paralysis. Because the symptom of water phobia is more prominent, so the disease is also known as water phobia. Rabies virus belongs to Rhabdoviridae, rabies virus, single stranded RNA virus, animals spread virus by biting each other. Symptoms of rabies patients? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of rabies patients

Before the emergence of the excited state, most of the patients had low fever, loss of appetite, nausea, headache, tiredness, discomfort and so on, which was similar to "cold"; Then there is fear and uneasiness, sensitive to sound, light, wind, pain, and throat tightness. The early symptoms with diagnostic significance were abnormal sensation of the wound and its vicinity, numbness, itching, pain and ant walking sensation, which were caused by the stimulation of neurons during virus reproduction and lasted for 2-4 days.

The patients gradually entered a high excited state, and the prominent manifestations were extreme terror, fear of water, fear of wind, paroxysmal pharyngeal spasm, dyspnea, dysuria and salivation. This period lasted for 1-3 days. Hydrophobia is a special symptom of rabies. Typical cases can cause severe pharyngeal spasm when they see water, drink water, listen to the sound of running water, or even only mention drinking water. Fear of wind is also one of the common symptoms. Breeze or other stimuli such as light, sound, touch, etc. can cause pharyngeal muscle spasm. Severe fashion can cause painful convulsions of the whole body.

Spasm stopped, the patient gradually quiet, but appeared slow paralysis, especially limb paralysis. Eye muscles, facial muscles and masticatory muscles may also be involved, manifested as strabismus, eye movement disorders, mandibular drop, mouth can not be closed, lack of facial expression, etc. this period lasted 6-18 hours.

matters needing attention

Immunize domestic animals and manage stray animals. The brain tissue of animals suspected to have died of rabies should be taken for examination, burned or buried, and must not be peeled or eaten. After being bitten or scratched by animals, the wound should be rinsed repeatedly with 20% soapy water immediately. If the wound is deep, a catheter should be put in and the soapy water should be poured continuously to remove the dog's saliva and squeeze out the dirty blood. Generally, the wound is not sutured and bandaged, antibiotics are used when necessary, and tetanus antitoxin is also used when the wound is deep.