Rabies is known by the medical community as a preventable, non-avoidable disease, and once it occurs, the case fatality rate is almost 100. What are the clinical manifestations of rabies, what are the prevention and control measures, and how to deal with it scientifically after being bitten by animals, welcome to pay attention to today's program.
Biography of the speakers
Chen Miaochan
Nurse in charge of the emergency department of Ou Anbu Overseas Chinese Hospital.
Early symptoms of rabies
The early symptoms of rabies should refer to the clinical manifestations of the "incubation period" and the "prodromal phase". The incubation period of rabies, most of which is 1 3 months, without any symptoms, to the prodromal period, usually 2 to 4 days, usually begins with atypical symptoms such as anorexia, fatigue, headache, and fever, in addition to unwarranted fear, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia, depression and other manifestations.
Prevention of animal bites and scratches
Humans usually get rabies after being bitten or scratched by animals that have been infected with the rabies virus, such as dogs and cats. There is no indication of the incubation period of rabies, and post-exposure treatment is the only effective means of prevention after exposure of high-risk animals. The initial symptom of rabies is fever, and the wound site is often painful or abnormal, unexplained, shivering, tingling, or burning. As the virus spreads through the central nervous system, patients develop typical clinical signs of rabies, i.e., manic and paralytic, and eventually die of pharyngeal spasm and asphyxia or respiratory and circulatory failure.
How to distinguish between post-exposure wounds
It is divided into ** treatment, class I exposure, intact **contact animals and their secretions or excretions, which is class I exposure, no risk, no need to dispose of after exposure, but the contact parts need to be carefully cleaned.
Class II exposure, bites without significant bleeding, scratches and wounds without significant bleeding, or wounds that have closed but not fully healed, and contact with animals and their secretions or excretions, are classified as Class II exposures and are subject to wound management and vaccination.
Level III exposure, which requires wound disposal vaccination, with the use of passive agents as appropriate, includes penetrating ** bites or scratches, clinically manifested by marked bleeding, wounds that have not yet closed, or mucosal contact with the animal and its secretions.
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