Symptoms and treatment of rabies
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The route of rabies virus entering human body is as follows: firstly, it infects muscle cells, goes through the latent period in muscle cells, and then enters nerve cells through acetylcholine receptor between muscle cells and nerve cells. The average moving speed of rabies virus in peripheral nerve tissue is 3mm / h, and it can propagate and spread to the whole central nerve tissue in one day after it ascends to central nerve tissue (brain spinal cord). Symptoms and treatment of rabies? Let's talk about it
Symptoms and treatment of rabies
Systemic symptoms include low fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat, physical discomfort, etc. Mental changes are prominent. The sick children are prone to cry, lose their temper and get angry easily. The older children show anxiety and depression, and some children think they are going to die
Pain and abnormal sensation reappear outside the healed bite, such as hypersensitivity, chilly feeling, burning feeling, numbness and itching. However, it is difficult for children under 5 years old to describe these feelings, but sometimes they ask their parents to touch or scratch the original wound.
It is sensitive to strong light and loud voice, and can produce tears, sweating, salivation and systemic muscle tone increase. When swallowing food, sometimes there is a sense of urgency in the throat. Some sick children suffer from anorexia, but they can still swallow food.
matters needing attention
After being bitten by a dog, it should be dealt with in time: wash the bitten part with clean water or soapy water immediately, suck out the local blood with a sucking device or cupping jar, disinfect it with tincture of iodine, and wrap it with clean gauze. Then go to the hospital for further examination and debridement. After being bitten by a mad dog, even a small wound may be infected with rabies. The wound bitten by a dog is very dirty, and bacterial infection is inevitable, so antibiotics, tetanus antitoxin and rabies vaccine should be used.
