What are the symptoms 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). Let's talk about the symptoms of rabies.

What are the symptoms of rabies

First, the general symptoms are 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. The following three situations are most noteworthy

Second: 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 to describe these feelings, and sometimes they ask their parents to touch or scratch the original wound.

Third: Despite the above symptoms, but no special, often parents and even doctors ignore, so that many children with the following symptoms caused attention: ① intermittent episodes of mania and crying; ② frequent salivation; ③ flush, fever does not subside. In fact, the above three clinical manifestations belong to the performance of rabies excitement period, rather than early symptoms.

matters needing attention

Once bitten, wash the wound with soapy water for 30 minutes, and go to the designated epidemic prevention station for injection of human rabies vaccine within 24 hours.