Jakarta, suddenly become a sex addict with constantly feel aroused even in the absence of sexual stimulation may be a sign of people infected with rabies virus. A woman suddenly has a high sex drive because of being bitten by rabid dog and died several days later.
A woman 28 years in India an unnamed come to the doctor with an unusual complaint, ie a sudden increase in sexual desire. The woman feels constantly aroused, often even in the absence of sexual stimulation at all.
Without any clear explanation, general practitioners and gynecologists to refer to the department of emergency medicine at Sri Gokulam Hospital and Research Institute in Salem, Tamil Nadu. But four days later the woman is already dead.
Cause that makes her to experience sexual symptoms to death in less than a week is a virus that is still a scourge in developing countries, namely rabies.
The rabies virus can paralyze the muscles of swallowing, causing people to suddenly become afraid of water and light. But in this case, the rabies virus makes people become hypersexual for attacking the brain. Unfortunately, by the time symptoms appear, the disease is not curable.
"Often times people will say when having symptoms I would go to the doctor. But at the time (symptoms appear), it was too late. If you are bitten or licked or scratched by a suspect animal is infected, you should seek treatment within 24 hours," said Peter Costa, director of communications for the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, as reported by LiveScience, Tuesday (10/25/2011).
Rabies disease has become epidemic in some regions in Indonesia such as Bali, Maluku and West Kalimantan. Rabies can be contracted from the bite of a dog, cat or monkey.
Rabies is a disease caused by rabies virus from Rhabdovirus family and genus Lyssa virus. The virus is shaped like a bullet and capsulated. This virus is actually very easy to diinonaktifkan through heating, soaps, detergents, creating an atmosphere of acids and bases. This virus has an incubation period of between 2 weeks to 2 years, but the average case of rabies in Indonesia, the incubation period is between 2 weeks to 18 weeks.
Usually a person with rabies will show symptoms such as:
1. Pain at the bite scar
2. Headache
3. Limp
4. Restless
5. Slimy mouth
6. Fear of water (hydrophobia) even for just looking at it.
7. Fear of wind (aerophobia), fear of light (photophobia) and sound scared. Because rabies is usually the patient is placed in a dark room without any special care and light winds.
If there was one who got the bite, especially from animals such as dogs, cats or wild monkeys there are several actions that must be done as follows:
1. Immediately wash the wound with running water and using soap or detergent.
2. Then immediately take it to a health center or center for rabies anti-rabies vaccine (VAR).
3. Continue to continue treatment with the examination.
4. Because the long incubation period of rabies, so it took 2 weeks to see the results of injections of vaccine, whether there are symptoms as above.
5. If positive, then it should return repeated administration of the vaccine during the 4 phases (zero start again, day 7, day 14 and given a booster vaccine at day-60).
6. It would be better if coupled with the provision of anti-rabies serum (SAR).
7. If you follow these steps, chances of recovery is high because the virus to the brain is cut off.
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