Parents who raise pets must have worried about such a thing: will dogs get rabies if they are bitten by other dogs? The answer is not necessarily! This article invites Dr. Chen Xiaoqin from Mingwang Pet Hospital to give you some knowledge about rabies in dogs and teach parents to treat rabies correctly!
Healthy dogs are not infected with rabies.
Studies have shown that the rabies virus only appears in the saliva of animals that have become ill or are about to become ill within 10 days, while healthy dogs are not poisonous in their saliva and cannot be transmitted. Therefore, the dog at home is only bitten by a dog with rabies virus.
Dog Infection Symptoms
1 Symptoms of infection
After infection, dogs will be manic, barking, biting, drooling, dysphagia and fear of light because of pain.
2 Onset Symptoms
The most obvious sign of the disease is the dog's whole body twitching, because when the rabies virus has invaded the dog's nervous system, the dog will appear stiff limbs, the whole body twitching performance, this sign indicates that the dog will quickly die.
Episodes of rabies infection in dogs
First stage
Dogs are depressed, afraid of light, slow reaction, unwilling to contact people, abnormal appetite, increased saliva, hind legs weakness, this phenomenon will generally last for 1 to 2 days.
The second stage
Excitement period of the dog will appear manic restless phenomenon. Some dogs may even take the initiative to attack other animals or attack their owners. His consciousness is already disorganized.
The third stage
Paralytic dogs usually have muscle twitching all over the body, because the tongue will involuntarily come out with difficulty breathing, and the phenomenon of drooling is also very serious. The final manifestation is respiratory paralysis and then death. This process will not take more than 5 days.
How to diagnose rabies
After the dog died of the disease, the laboratory confirmed that the dog carried rabies virus by immunofluorescence antibody test in the brain tissue of the dog.
In the face of rabies, the owner to do?
1 If the dog is infected, deal with the dog correctly
If the dog at home unfortunately suffers from rabies death or suspected rabies death, the owner must be harmless to the dog's body.
2 Do a good job of prevention, away from rabies
(1) rabies vaccine can not be less
Vaccination is the most effective means to prevent rabies. Parents must take their dogs to get rabies vaccine!
(2) Wear traction when you go out
When parents take their dogs out, they must hold the rope, do not approach strange dogs, and stay away from dogs that look abnormal.
