At home, we had a dog since two years. My boys are 8 years old is very close to our dog. Two weeks ago, he was bitten by our dog. My wife panicked for fear my child will be infected with rabies. Fortunately, my wife immediately took him to the nearest hospital. The doctor who examined carefully inquire of those bites. Apparently my dog bite my son because his leg pinned. So, instead of biting spontaneously. According to doctors, the possibility of contracting rabies my child is very small.
Wounds cleaned my child and my child provided with antibiotics and a tetanus shot, but not given rabies vaccine. Two weeks have passed, our dog was healthy. We feel happy because the doctor said if in 10 days or two weeks the dog is healthy, means not suffering from rabies.I am trying to find information on the internet about rabies. Apparently this disease is very frightening. Almost all patients who contracted rabies died, preceded by symptoms of a disease very painful. Although rabies is a deadly disease, the disease can be prevented by preventing dog bites and animal carriers of rabies virus. In addition, rabies vaccine was also instrumental to prevent rabies.
Whether the vaccine is already available in Indonesia? Where a dog bite victim should seek treatment to avoid rabies? What to do dog owners that dogs not exposed to rabies?
M J.
Rabies disease is still there in our country or in Asia. Actually, in comparison with other countries in Asia, the prevalence of rabies in our country is relatively low. Each year the incidence of rabies in India reached 20,000 cases, 2,500 cases of China, the Philippines 200-300 cases, Vietnam 9,000 cases, while in Indonesia, 150 cases. However, in 2009 and 2010 was an increase in cases, especially in Bali and Nias. Hopefully by 2011 it will decrease again. Around 24 provinces in Indonesia has reported cases of rabies. Jakarta including the province that until now has not found cases of rabies in humans.
What happens if a person is bitten by a dog suffering from rabies? The person is at risk of contracting the virus that can attack the brain. Symptoms of rabies will occur from 10 to 50 days. Symptoms include depression, anxiety, headache, and fever.
Symptoms of rabies can also be accompanied by paralysis, starting from the lower limbs. Increased anxiety, may be accompanied by seizures, and also increases saliva production. Throat muscles have spamus (seizures) if the patient drinks. Spamus causes sufferers to feel sick if you drink water. Therefore, rabies is often also called hydrophobia (fear of water). Patients also may become unconscious (coma). Death in rabies can occur because of airway obstruction, seizures, or paralysis wide.
Control of rabies in our country should be implemented in an integrated way. Antarkementerian cooperation is needed, such as the Ministry of Health with the Ministry of Agriculture. Ministry of Agriculture needs to keep the dog, no contracting rabies and do not bite humans.
There used to be laws that oblige if the dog out of the house, her mouth must be suppressed so as not to bite people. However, many dogs that roam now, nobody cares. These dogs are at risk of contracting rabies. Dogs that are kept can be maintained so as not infected with rabies by vaccination. In addition, the dog population should also be controlled, for example by the operation so that the dog did not have a child.
Ministry of Health needs to keep people (especially children) do not bite dogs. Services to help people bitten by dogs should be available, including rabies centers capable to prevent rabies management with governance wound cleaning, administration of rabies immune globulin and rabies vaccine. At the center of rabies is also available the means necessary for supervision of dogs that bite if the dog had rabies. Dogs infected with rabies will usually die within ten days.
Actually, rabies vaccines used in addition to post-exposure (bite), is also useful for preventing rabies bites before they happen. Therefore, veterinarians, laboratory workers, and those who are in frequent contact with dogs are encouraged to undergo vaccination before exposure to the bite. Rabies vaccine is provided by the government, but the vaccine can also be purchased at a price a bit expensive.
Not all people bitten by rabid dogs need to be vaccinated. The doctor will assess the risk of rabies transmission. As your child, your dog is a dog that is maintained. The dog does not bite spontaneously, but because of pain. Thus, it is understandable if the doctor who examined your child decides not need to give rabies vaccine. However, he was more worried about the infections that may occur, including the possibility of tetanus. Therefore, the wound should be cleaned, your child needs to be given antibiotics and given a tetanus vaccine replicates.
We must reduce the population of stray dogs because dogs are not maintained is more susceptible to diseases, including rabies.
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