Rabies attacks vary in symptoms depending on the period, and can include flu-like symptoms, tingling, hallucinations, photophobia, hydrophobia, paralysis, and coma.
After the incubation period is the onset of rabies, which can be divided into the prodromal, excitation, and paralysis periods, and the symptoms will be different.
1. Prodromal phase: Early flu-like symptoms may occur, including: fever, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and fatigue. There may also be a tingling or itching sensation around the bite area.
2. Excitement phase: In this phase, there will be nervousness, over-excitement, fear of water, fear of wind, fear of light, and severe spasm of the pharyngeal muscles when hearing the sound of water or even hearing drinking water. Other stimuli may also cause spasm of the pharyngeal muscles, such as light, wind, and sound, which may be accompanied by high fever. Some patients will also have hallucinations, hallucinations and so on.
3. Paralytic stage: patients develop generalized delayed paralysis, coma, respiratory failure, and finally death.
Rabies attack after the short duration of the disease, the lethality rate is almost 100%, so if the animal bite or scratch, should be timely inoculation of rabies vaccine, can effectively prevent the infection of rabies.