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Need To Worry About Numbness After Dog Bite?
HI.. MY DOG is vaccinated anti-rabies already so when i go him outside the house he have no leash then 1 day there are some dogs running with him and i think 1 of them bite my dog in ear. my question is can my dog have rabies even if he was injected anti-rabies before? i noticed now after 5 days that he's becoming aggressive and sometimes attack me and bite me but with clothes on, there's no bite size in the part im bitten. I'm experiencing numbing of the part bitten. I'm bitten before by my dog when he was young and me and my dog didn't experienced anything. that's why i don't worry now. should i worry now? the only thing i noticed to my dog is the aggressiveness and sometimes choking.
Tue, 25 Mar 2014
Hello,
Welcome to HCM,
If you have given full antirabies vaccination to your dog, then chance of getting rabies to your dog will be less but if it is partially immunized definitely there will be a chance of getting rabies to your dog.
The dog having rabies virus can easily transmit to the human beings after biting, but it cannot be make out whether biting dog is having rabies or not by seeing the dog.
As your dog is having some of the features of rabies it is very difficult to make out by the history. But I would suggest you to not to ignore but to take
1.Inj Tetanus
2.Antirabies vaccine on days 0,3,7,14 and 28 days.
3.If it is changing behavior rapidly, you need to take antirabies serum (Passive Immunization).
Thank you.
Welcome to HCM,
If you have given full antirabies vaccination to your dog, then chance of getting rabies to your dog will be less but if it is partially immunized definitely there will be a chance of getting rabies to your dog.
The dog having rabies virus can easily transmit to the human beings after biting, but it cannot be make out whether biting dog is having rabies or not by seeing the dog.
As your dog is having some of the features of rabies it is very difficult to make out by the history. But I would suggest you to not to ignore but to take
1.Inj Tetanus
2.Antirabies vaccine on days 0,3,7,14 and 28 days.
3.If it is changing behavior rapidly, you need to take antirabies serum (Passive Immunization).
Thank you.
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