What are the symptoms of rabies?

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I believe we are very familiar with rabies, which is a disease transmitted by mad dogs. Once bitten by mad dogs, we must go to the hospital for vaccination immediately, otherwise, it will bring danger to our lives. So what are the symptoms of rabies? Let's have a detailed understanding.

What are the symptoms of 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. Hydrophobia is one of the unique symptoms of most manic rabies. Hydrophobia has not been seen in other diseases, so it has syndrome nature.

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So far, rabies is an incurable disease, there is no specific medicine to cure it, the only way is to inject vaccine. Rabies has an incubation period, which can be as short as a few days and as long as more than ten years. If people are bitten, they will die if they are not vaccinated in time. So for your safety, please don't be too close to animals and animals.