Hydrophobia (Rabies)
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Hydrophobia: 1. Literally, an irrational fear of water, to drink or to swim in. Someone who is scared of the water is hydrophobic. 2.
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Rabies - acute viral infection of the central nervous system in dogs, foxes, raccoons, skunks, bats, and other animals, and in humans. The virus is transmitted from an animal to a person, or from one animal t...
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Rabies is an infectious disease that can affect all species of warmblooded animals, including man.
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Canine madness. This disease arises in consequence of the bite of a rabid animal, as a dog or cat, and sometimes spontaneously.
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Rabies is a viral infection that affects the brain (central nervous system), causing convulsions and paralysis. Once symptoms develop, rabies is almost always fatal in humans.
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SYMPTOMS"Symptoms begin appearing within 1-4 months after the bite, but sometimes longer. They include numbness, soreness, and tingling where the bite occurred.
Fear of water (hydrophobia) because of the difficulty in swallowing
A bite's severity and its location on your body determine how quickly signs and symptoms appear.
Hydrophobia: Babes and Lepp, " Rech. s. 1. vaccination antirabique," Ann. de l'inst. Pasteur, t. iii. (1889); HOgyes, in Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie, 'Bd. v. (1897); Negri, Boll. soc. med. chir. di Pavia, Nos. 2, 4 (1903); Ztschr. f. Hyg., Bd.
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These include a fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia); animals, particularly spiders, snakes or mice; heights (acrophobia); flying (pterygophobia); water (hydrophobia); storms; dentists; injections; tunnels; bridges; ...
The saying originated in the belief that a cure for hydrophobia (rabies) or any disease contracted from a dog bite consisted of taking a hair of the dog that bit you and placing it in the wound.
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"Central Nervous System Viral Diseases: Rabies (Hydrophobia)." Section 13, Chapter 162 in The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, edited by Mark H. Beers and Robert Berkow. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck Research Laboratories, 2002.
For example, they may fear thunder and being struck by lightning (astrapophobia), drowning in water (hydrophobia), or falling from high places (acrophobia).
Common situations.
numbness at the bite site
high temperature (fever) of 38ºC (100.º4) or above
hydrophobia - an irrational fear of water
hallucinations - seeing or hearing things that are not real ...
The person affected becomes terrified of water (which is why it's also called 'hydrophobia') and becomes anxious and hyperactive.
In the second, neurological phase, symptoms include spasms of the throat and gullet, extreme thirst, hydrophobia (intense fear of water), anxiety, hallucinations, and manic behaviour (this is the stage in which animals become mad and bite.
Increased production of thick saliva
Flu-like symptoms, such as headache, fever, fatigue, nausea
Painful spasms and contractions of the throat when exposed to water (called hydrophobia)
Erratic, excited, or bizarre behavior
Paralysis ...
The muscle spasms can include the muscles of the throat and voice box. This can make it very painful and hard to swallow. Perhaps this is why a rabies-infected person avoids the sight, sound, and drinking of water, a condition called hydrophobia.
As the disease progresses, more specific symptoms appear and may include insomnia, anxiety, confusion, slight or partial paralysis, excitation, hallucinations, agitation, hypersalivation (increase in saliva), difficulty swallowing, and hydrophobia ...
 See also: Symptom, Rabies, Fever, Viral, Death
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