Got rabies?

summary

Rabies usually has an incubation period, but the length of this incubation period varies from person to person. Most people may get sick within three months, and 4% - 10% of them will get sick more than half a year. About 1% of them will get sick more than one year, and even a few cases have an incubation period of ten years. Infected with rabies, we need to understand some of its symptoms.

Got rabies?

In the early stage of rabies, patients have low fever, headache, general laziness, nausea, irritability, fear and other symptoms. Next, the patient becomes extremely sensitive to stimuli such as sound, light or wind, and immediately feels throat tightening when slightly stimulated. Around the wound bitten by the sick animal, there were also numbness, itching and pain. It seemed that there were ants crawling on the hands, feet and limbs.

Two or three days later, the disease entered the excited period. The patient is in a state of high excitement. Outstanding performance for extreme terror, fear of water, fear of wind, encounter sound, light, wind, etc., will appear throat muscle severe spasm. Although the patient is very thirsty, he does not dare to drink water. After drinking water, he can not swallow. Even when he hears the sound of running water or other people talking about water, he will have throat spasm. In severe cases, the patient also has painful convulsions throughout the body, leading to dyspnea. Most rabies patients are conscious; However, there are also some patients with mental disorders, nonsense.

About two or three days after the exciting period, the patient becomes quiet, but then he becomes paralyzed, his respiratory and blood circulation system will fail, and he will quickly fall into a coma. After more than ten hours, he will die. The course of rabies generally does not exceed 6 days.

matters needing attention

Once people are bitten by cats and dogs carrying rabies virus, they must be vaccinated in time. If measures are not taken in time, they usually get sick in two to three months. Once they get sick, the death rate is almost 100%. It can be said that rabies is an incurable disease, so people must be careful of these animals at ordinary times to prevent being bitten.