What are the symptoms of rabies?

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Rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by rabies virus. It is a zoonotic disease. It is common in dogs, wolves, cats and other carnivores. People are often infected by sick animals. This is a very serious disease with a certain incubation period. Here are some of its symptoms.

What are the symptoms of rabies?

Some of the early manifestations of rabies we are still relatively good, observed that the majority of rabies patients have low fever, very easy to sleep, lack of appetite, a small number of disgust, vomiting, headache (mostly in the occipital), back pain, body discomfort, etc., the incubation period of rabies is usually about three months, a small number will be in half a year.

Excitement period: 1) high excitement, especially the expression of extreme terror, fear of water is the unique performance of the disease. Other stimuli, such as wind, light, sound and touch, can also cause pharyngeal muscle spasm and dyspnea, and paroxysmal twitch of the whole body can occur in severe attack; 2) There was also a rise in body temperature; 3) Sympathetic hyperfunction, sweating, salivation, mydriasis, rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, most patients are conscious.

Prodromal stage: in the healed wound, there are numbness, itching, pain, ant walking sensation and other abnormal feelings near the wound and its corresponding innervation area, which are the most significant early symptoms.

matters needing attention

Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and provide protein foods that are easy to digest and absorb, such as milk, eggs, fish, bean products, etc. eat spicy and hot foods, such as pepper, mustard, etc; Spicy food such as mutton. In normal days, we should not contact those stray cats and dogs too much. We should take self-protection measures. Once we are scratched or bitten by these cats and dogs, we can go to the hospital to get rabies vaccine as soon as possible.