Why do people with rabies are afraid of water?

Rabies virus causes rabies in animal saliva, spread to humans through bite, scratch, licking into open wounds. After penetrating the body, the virus causes rabies to multiply the quantity several times, moving to the brain. They destroy the nerve cells that control speaking, swallowing, breathing, causing muscle spasms in the throat and larynx. When drinking water or the wind, the contracting becomes serious and painful, leading to the psychology of patients who are afraid of drinking water.

The disease has two forms of fierce and paralysis. The fierce form accounts for about 80% of the cases. In addition to fear of water, fear of rabies wind also have symptoms such as fear of light, anxiety, fever, confusion, saliva secretion, strange behavior, hallucinations, insomnia.

As for the paralysis, the patient is awake and does not develop most of the symptoms of rabies. The patient died from paralysis spread to the whole body.

Rabies without specific treatment, mortality rate is 100% as soon as symptoms appear. Vaccine injection is the only preventive measure. When being bitten by dogs and cats, you need to inject 5 points within a month (0-3-7-14-28), which can be appointed with anti-rabies and serum serum, tetanus vaccine. The doctor may order to stop the injection depending on the extent of the wound and observe the condition of the animal after 10 days.

In addition, you can proactively prevent the vaccine before exposure, including three injections on 0, 3, 21 or 28 days. When dogs, cats bite, scratch, even seriously wounds, only 2 more vaccines and do not need serum.