Initial symptoms of rabies?

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Rabies is an acute infectious disease, once the onset of the disease, its development speed is very fast, if the patients can not get timely and effective treatment, it will lead to the aggravation of the disease, in order to help patients in the early stage of rabies can find the disease, let me introduce the symptoms of rabies in the early stage.

Initial symptoms of rabies?

The prodromal stage of the two types is similar. Most of the patients had low fever, drowsiness, lack of appetite, and a few had nausea, vomiting, headache (mostly in the occipital), back pain and discomfort; They are sensitive to pain, sound, light, wind and other stimuli, and have a sense of throat tightening. The early symptoms of great diagnostic significance are numbness, itching, tingling, insect crawling, ant walking and other sensory abnormalities in the healed wound site and neural pathway, which occur in about 80% of cases. This is caused by the stimulation of neurons, especially sensory neurons, by virus reproduction, which can last for several hours to several days. This period lasted for 1-2 days, rarely more than 4 days.

Manic rabies: most common in China, about 2 / 3 in foreign countries. Patients gradually enter a state of high excitement, which is characterized by extreme terror, a sense of imminent disaster, and very sensitive to underwater sound, light, wind and other stimuli, causing paroxysmal pharyngeal spasm, dyspnea and so on.

Paralytic rabies: common in India and Thailand, accounting for about 1 / 3 of the total, less than 10 cases reported in China. Clinically, there is no excitement period, no fear of water symptoms and dysphagia, but with high fever, headache, vomiting, bite pain *, then there are limb weakness, abdominal distension, ataxia, partial or total muscle paralysis, urinary retention or incontinence, etc., presenting transverse myelitis or ascending spinal paralysis. In the early stage, when the chest muscle was percussed with percussion hammer, it could be seen that the chest muscle was uplifted and recovered after a few seconds. In the early stage, only muscle edema and hair erect appeared at percussion. The course of disease lasted for 4-5 days.

matters needing attention

We should pay more attention to the knowledge about diseases, so that we can find out as soon as possible when we or our family members are sick. We should also pay attention to the prevention work, and do not have close contact with animals such as cats and dogs.