Rabies
Medicine has developed a very long time before they became such as it exists in the modern world. People’s knowledge about diseases is constantly changing, and at different times under one name can hide various diseases, and sometimes not having nothing in common. Or, conversely, the same disease had different names and, consequently, different methods of treatment. Only rabies has been known since ancient times almost all nations, and all there is a separate word for the name of this disease.
The disease is always accompanied by a dog or a forest dweller with a strange behavior. The animal initiated, furiously scratching the ground, chewed, torn and swallowed almost everything that comes his way. His eyes bloodshot from the mouth constantly drools. At the sight of a human or animal wild beast silently rushes into battle without worrying about their own safety. They are driven only by a desire to bite. With a man bitten by a long time nothing seemed not to occur. The wounds from the bites of delayed and stopped hurting. However, usually a month or two, he begins to feel a slight discomfort, reminiscent of a bygone bites a person depressed, loses his appetite. It runs from one to three days, and depression is replaced by painful stimulation. It is accompanied by the most characteristic symptom – hydrophobia. All this is accompanied by fits of rage, a man all crushes, breaking furniture. Then it gets better, but suddenly the temperature jumps up to 40-42 degrees off consciousness in different parts of the body convulsions, passing into paralysis. When he covers the respiratory muscles, the patient dies. There are cases that bite obviously sick animal does not cause disease, but if the first symptoms, the patient can not be saved, he will die for sure. So it was before, as things stand now. If you do not enter a rabies vaccine before the first symptoms, then it will not help.
Why is this happening? Our body is constantly struggling with the virus sheltering inside the cells. To do this, T-lymphocytes cause the infected cell to output viral antigens and destroy it along with the virus. This tactic applies to any cell of any tissue other than nervous. Neurons have absolute immunity. This also takes rabies virus, it does not go into the blood, but remains within the peripheral nerves and slowly extend their trunks, moving to the brain. Disease progresses, when the virus reaches the brain stem. It is at this and later stages of the patient’s cure is not possible.
The most interesting is that even if the virus is already in the body, but the first symptoms of the disease had not yet arrived, the introduction of the vaccine will cure a man one hundred percent. This is explained by the fact that in the regular flow of blood in inactivated virus vaccine of the immune system generates a specific response. And when the virus reaches the brain, the body is ready for his meeting. And, although the virus inside the nerve cells of the immune system still can not do anything, but it neutralizes any virus particles appearing in the intercellular space. This prevents infection of new neurons and the development of the disease. After some time, few infected cells die, and with them are destroyed and the virus. And the disease is declining.
When the bite of an animal, it could be a dog, a fox, even if the animal is familiar, there is a possibility, albeit small, rabies virus infection. To risk in any case not worth it. When you find that people become infected with rabies, the first symptoms, to save such a patient will not succeed. We can not ignore the anti-rabies vaccine. Be sensible.