Symptoms of rabies phobia

People with rabies will show extremely fearful symptoms when they have an attack. They will be anxious and have whole-body convulsions and physical abnormalities. But in the early stages they will feel general discomfort, have obvious fever and fatigue, and are extremely afraid of light, water, and the sound of wind, and will be very scared when they hear anything.

Symptoms of rabies phobia include anxiety and feeling that any slight abnormality in the body is a symptom of rabies.

Clinical manifestations:

The clinical manifestations of rabies can be divided into four stages:

1. Incubation period: (average of about 4-6 weeks, the shortest and longest range can be 10 days to 8 months) Depending on the individual's physical condition, the incubation period varies from a few days to several years (6 years incubation period, only two cases in the world, less than 2 years is rare) During the incubation period, the infected person does not have any symptoms

2 Prodromal stage: The infected person begins to experience symptoms such as general discomfort, fever, fatigue, restlessness, pain in the bitten area, and abnormal sensation

3 Excitement stage: Humans: The patient's various symptoms reach their peak, and he or she will experience mental tension, whole body spasms, hallucinations, delirium, fear of light, fear of sound, fear of water, fear of wind, etc. Therefore, rabies is also called hydrophobia. Patients often suffocate to death due to spasms in the throat.

4. Coma: If the patient survives the excitement phase, he will enter the coma phase. The patient is in a deep coma but the symptoms of rabies are no longer obvious. Most patients who enter this phase eventually die of exhaustion.

How to overcome rabies phobia?

In order to overcome this psychological fear, in addition to seeing a psychiatrist, you must also truly understand what rabies is:

① You can be infected with rabies even if you are injured by truly healthy animals such as dogs and cats (this is impossible).

② The vaccine can only protect once, so you need to get vaccinated every time you are bitten (the protection period of the vaccine is usually 6 months. If the vaccination is confirmed to be effective, it will start from the time of the last injection. If you are bitten again within 3 months, it is okay. If you are bitten within a year, you can get two booster injections. If the time is longer, you need to get the full course of injections)

③ Vaccination should be done immediately after being bitten (the first thing to do should be to clean the wound, and cleaning the wound itself is even more important than vaccination. The cleaning time should be kept at about half an hour, and it should be washed with running clean soapy water. If conditions permit, disinfectant can be used after cleaning), the sooner the better, and it should not exceed 24 hours.

In fact, after a person is bitten by a dog carrying rabies virus, the incubation period of rabies virus is mostly only 1 to 3 months, and it is rare to exceed one year. Even if bitten by an infected dog, the incidence rate is only 15-20%. After timely injection of 5 qualified vaccines, if there is no disease within half a month, the possibility of disease can be ruled out.