Symptoms and signs of rabies in dogs

Symptoms and Manifestations of Rabies

1. The rabies virus enters the peripheral nervous system through damaged mucous membranes or wounds, and then enters the central nervous system, causing a series of symptoms, including muscle spasms, irritability, anxiety, irritability, and respiratory failure.

2. Incubation period: The incubation period of rabies is generally 1-3 months. Patients in the incubation period of rabies are asymptomatic and there is no diagnostic method during this period.

3. Early stage: Patients in the prodromal stage of rabies usually have atypical symptoms such as discomfort, anorexia, fatigue, headache, and fever. 50%-80% of patients have specific neuropathic pain or paresthesia at the original exposure site, and may also appear for no reason. fear, anxiety, agitation, irritability, nervousness, insomnia or depression.

4. Acute nervous stage: In the acute stage, patients may experience mania, fear of water, fear of wind, paroxysmal pharyngeal muscle spasm, difficulty breathing, difficulty defecation, hyperhidrosis, salivation, etc.

5. Paralysis stage: the patient enters a quiet state, the spasm stops, the patient gradually becomes quiet, and flaccid paralysis occurs, which is most common in limb flaccidity, followed by weakened breathing, pulse count, blood pressure drop, and finally circulatory and respiratory failure. die.

Treatment for rabies

1. Rabies is a malignant infectious disease. Once infected, there is currently no drug that can clear the virus. It can be said that there is no cure except for symptomatic treatment, and its final outcome is still death.

2. Therefore, in the face of such a vicious infectious disease, since there is no cure, after being bitten by a dog, you must promptly go to the epidemic prevention station to inject the whole process of rabies vaccine.

3. Five injections of rabies vaccine must be given. Don't have any fluke mentality, because there is actually no cure for rabies.