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What Would Be Best Medicine For Prevent Rabies Due To Stray Dog Bite?
hi ....doctor i will be very thank full ...plz answer my question as soon as possible ..im really under stress ..i started my pre.explosure verorab course 2 montsh before ..after taking 3 dosseses of verorab vaccine ...just before at 12th day a street dog bite me ...same day i took rabies imunoglobbin name berirab dose ...and again at 14 day i took verorab and on 28 day too...my question is serum can be used at 14 days after starting vaccine ...will it suppress the production of verorab antibodies or can rabies human imunogllobin ,berirab , can fails my vaccine after injected at 14 days .......2nd question is can u gett rabies if ur broken skin came into contect with a dog bleeding wound..can blood or bleeding cut or wound of a dag gives you rabies plz answer my question ill be very thankfull.......
Fri, 27 Dec 2019
Hello,
regarding your first question: the vaccine and the immunoglobulin can be administered even at the same time. They'll just have to be injected in a different spot - for example, the right arm for the vaccine, the left arm for the immunoglobulin. The immunoglobulin may indeed affect antibody production and it's not recommended 7 days or later after initiation of vaccination, like in your case! The immunoglobulin is not recommended to patients with a prior history of vaccination as well.
Regarding your second question: transmission occurs through saliva. Contact with blood or other body fluids of an infected animal is not supposed to result in transmission. Coming into contact with a potentially infected dog can be dangerous if you have a scratch because the virus may be inoculated through its saliva.
I hope I've answered your questions. Please let me know if you need further assistance.
Kind Regards,
Dr Panagiotis Zografakis,
Internal Medicine Specialist
regarding your first question: the vaccine and the immunoglobulin can be administered even at the same time. They'll just have to be injected in a different spot - for example, the right arm for the vaccine, the left arm for the immunoglobulin. The immunoglobulin may indeed affect antibody production and it's not recommended 7 days or later after initiation of vaccination, like in your case! The immunoglobulin is not recommended to patients with a prior history of vaccination as well.
Regarding your second question: transmission occurs through saliva. Contact with blood or other body fluids of an infected animal is not supposed to result in transmission. Coming into contact with a potentially infected dog can be dangerous if you have a scratch because the virus may be inoculated through its saliva.
I hope I've answered your questions. Please let me know if you need further assistance.
Kind Regards,
Dr Panagiotis Zografakis,
Internal Medicine Specialist
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