Basic symptoms of rabies

Rabies virus were bitten by infected animals, the incubation period without any symptoms, slowly progressive, clinical symptoms rarely occur within 20 days, in most cases after 30 days or even months after the incidence of 4-6.

Early in rabies, patients have a low-grade fever, headache, body fat, lazy, nausea, irritability, fear, anxiety and other symptoms.


Then, the patient of sound, light or wind, such as to stimulate become extraordinarily sensitive, a little throat irritation Department issued an immediate feeling tight. Been bitten by the animal disease around the wound as well as numbness, abnormal feeling limbs, hands and feet as if there are ants crawling.

After 23 days, his condition to enter the exciting period. Patients in a highly excited state. Outstanding performance for extreme acts of terror, fear of water, fear of wind, experiencing sound, light, wind and so on, there will be a serious throat muscles spasm. Although patients are very thirsty but did not dare to drink water, drink the water can not swallow, or even hear the voice of water, or others that water, will also appear throat spasms. The gravity of the patients are pain in the body of convulsions, resulting in difficulty breathing. Rabies patients, the majority of sober mind; However, there are some patients suffer from mental disorders, said ravings.

Exciting period of about two or three days later, the patient becomes quiet down, but the resulting full-body paralysis, respiratory and circulatory functions there will be failure, quickly fell into a coma, more than a dozen hours later, would die. Rabies course, there is generally no more than six days.

Fear of water is the most manic-type-specific one of the symptoms of rabies, hydrophobia performance not seen in other diseases, so it has evidence of disease.