Rabies Post Exposure Prophylaxis

Hi. Nope.post exposure prophylaxis won't have immediate action it takes 1-2 weeks to develop antibodies. So if the wound is deep (cat3 bite) your doctor will give you rvig around the wound site to cover those early days. If you are asking about booster in high risk categories (without bite, your body will be having antibodies already. So do not worry about action time. 

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Dr. Rohan NandaMBBS, CAPH, MHAGeneral Physician

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First check if the dog is vaccinated or not. Get a post exposure prophylaxis for rabies along with tt. 

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Dr. Krishnan Nair M PMBBS, DPHGeneral Physician

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General guidelines are -- vaccine to be stored at 2-8 degree c.--------may be kept for maximum 6 hours --outside fridge mobileafter that potency will be coming down------ some companies are producing vaccine which can be kept at 2-25 degree c.mobile for 6 hours mobileso you verify the details from the leaflet with the vaccine boxmobile as per general guidelines -- your fourth dose have to be repeated. You have n't told --whether the regimen was intra -dermal or intra-muscular---if it was intra-muscular --at your age--- the absorption of vaccine may be less -------as fat is much more in gluteal area --compaired to recommended site of deltoid ---- so in my openion ---if it was i/m regimen ---better to repeat the whole doses --at the earliest ---after taking expert openionmobileas rabies is a disease with cent percent mortalitymobile and we shall not take 1 in a million chance --here. Thank you for asking this very important question ---especially as ---india is having plenty of street dogs---- and the need for post-exposure prophylaxis in the correct method is most important--- in saving thousands of lives. 

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Dr. Mohsin HassanMBBS, Certificate Course in Dialysis, PG Diploma in Emergency Medicine, Fellowship Family MedicineGeneral Physician

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Post exposure prophylaxis 4 doses taken. It will also count as pre exposure prophylaxis for next so no need. 

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No, not if the dog is properly vaccinated against rabies and the efficacy of the vaccine is confirmed by laboratory evidence. Otherwise an appropriate post-exposure prophylaxis (pep) should be given. 

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Dr. Sushma ShahMBBSGeneral Physician

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Rabies vaccine is pep for rabies as no treatment for rabies in world. No side effects. U must have gone for corona vaccine it's vaccine against corona. Just to protect. How rabies vaccine can cause rabies. 

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Dr. Rakshith DasGeneral Physician

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No, it will not cause any side effects , infact animal handlers are given anti rabies vaccine before any bite (pre exposure prophylaxis) 

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Dr. Subhajit DattaMBBSGeneral Physician

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Hello lybrate-user, there has been really limited studies about survival of the rabies virus outside the host body. Although luckily, the virus cannot survive more than 20 to 24 hours in a dry environment.in temperature more than 25 degrees it barely survives 2 hours. But in a closed water bottle survival of the virus depends on many factors, like ph of the water, temperature,status of chlorination etc. At the maximum 24 to 30 hours the virus may survive in a closed bottle under normal circumstances. But, the infection potential can be very low to none if the virus load is less due to dilution of the virus in the water.in that case pep may not be required. If someone gets direct exposure to the saliva of an infected person or animal, it is better to get an prophylaxis as the rabies has 100% mortality rate. Hope this helps. Thank you. 

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Dr. Nidhi KishorMBBSGeneral Physician

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Dear User, it is 3 months after rabies vaccination that you do not need to take vaccination even after exposure, and only local wound care like washing the wound with soap and water under running water. Thank you, have a good day. 

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Dr. Nidhi KishorMBBSGeneral Physician

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Dear user ,yes take your full dose of rabies vaccine. Though rabies is said to spread from bite of rabid animal where blood comes out or exposure of saliva at your breached skin. But since it was your pet dog you might have missed to notice it. Ideally you should have taken it as soon as your pet died. But still it is never late to take the vaccine as india is a endemic country for rabies and rabies has a long incubation period. So my advice would be to take full course of the rabies post exposure prophylaxis. Thank you. 

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