Vaccine For Rabies in Humans

Although rabies is a 100% fatal disease, it is preventable by vaccines. Human rabies vaccine can protect the infected persons by triggering your immune system to produce antibodies. These special proteins can recognize foreign invaders, like viruses, and destroy them.

The vast majority of people will not experience any reaction after being vaccinated against rabies, and only some of the vaccinated individuals may experience mild vaccination reactions. Common local injections include redness, swelling, pain, itching, and systemic symptoms such as fever, dizziness, headache, fatigue, general malaise, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc. Most of these symptoms are relatively mild and can gradually releases within a few days to a week. A small number of patients will have moderate or higher fever and rash, and appropriate symptomatic treatment can be carried out under the guidance of a doctor.

The first rabies vaccine should be shot in time after being bitten to play a preventive role. If it is a generally minor bite, that is, in the absence of blood, or if it is scratched, or the broken skin is licked, the vaccine should be given on the same day. And it's not just one injection, it usually takes about a week. Then it should be injected again on the 30th day, note that the dosage for children is the same.Second, for more serious bites, in addition to the rabies vaccine injection according to the above method, the injection volume should be doubled on the first and third days of being bitten.