Can babies get rabies vaccine? Can babies get rabies vaccine?

Can babies get rabies vaccines? There are many families with pets at home, so what should you do if your baby is bitten by a dog after birth? Do you need to get rabies vaccines immediately? Today, let's talk about whether babies can get rabies vaccines. I will give you a detailed introduction right away.

Can babies get rabies vaccine?

Yes, there is no age limit for rabies vaccine. The sooner you get the vaccine after being bitten by an animal, the better. You must get the rabies vaccine within 24 hours. Go to the Epidemic Prevention Department of the Children's Hospital for vaccination in time. Let your child drink plenty of water and take a rest. In addition, the role of the vaccine is only to stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies against the rabies virus. It will not have any adverse effects on the child's development, so there is no need to worry.

There are no contraindications to rabies vaccines. Occasionally, some allergic reactions may occur. Mild allergies can be recovered in a short time without treatment. Severe allergies must be treated in the hospital, otherwise there may be a risk of life. Washing with soapy water and hydrogen peroxide is indeed correct and can greatly reduce the possibility of rabies virus infection, but this cannot completely block the possibility of rabies virus infection, so vaccination is still necessary.

If you are bitten by a dog, it is best to wash the wound with water immediately, squeeze out the blood with bacteria, and then get a rabies vaccine. The immunization period of rabies vaccine is 3 months. If you are bitten again 3-6 months after the full immunization, you need to get 2 booster injections with an interval of 1 week. If it exceeds 6 months, you need to get 5 more injections. If you are not sure whether you were bitten by a dog, you can get a rabies vaccine, which has no side effects on the body.

Rabies vaccines are safe and reliable, and generally have no adverse effects. Only a few people may experience local swelling, nodules, and urticaria, but they will recover in a short period of time and do not require special treatment. Rabies vaccines generally have no age limit. It is recommended to be injected when necessary. If you are worried, you can take your child to the hospital for a check-up to be more reassured.

How to determine whether you are infected with rabies

The ten-day observation method is one of the rabies prevention and control methods recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). That is, after being bitten by a warm-blooded animal such as a dog (cat) that has disease symptoms or behaves abnormally compared to healthy cats (dogs), you should get a rabies vaccine as soon as possible and observe the cat (dog) that bit you. If the cat or dog has not died of rabies within 10 days, the rabies vaccination can be stopped, and it can be determined that the bitten person has not been infected with rabies at all.

This is because animals infected with the virus are only contagious 2-3 days before they become ill, and once the animal becomes ill, it will inevitably die within 3-5 days, so 10 days is already a very safe period.

This method can 100% eliminate all possibilities of rabies being transmitted to humans.

I specifically asked my infectious disease teacher and a friend at the CDC about this, and the answers I got were also positive.

Common side effects of rabies vaccine

1. General reaction

Including severe upper arm pain, headache, discomfort or nausea, and allergic edema. Common local reactions include pain, erythema and nodules. Among the above, the most common adverse reaction is upper arm pain (15% to 25%), and the rarest is allergic edema, only 0.1%.

2. Allergic reactions

The overall incidence of allergic reactions was 0.11%, which were caused by the antigenicity of human albumin present as a stabilizer in the vaccine. However, no fatal cases occurred. With active treatment, the symptoms generally disappeared within 2 to 3 days.

3. Neurological reactions

Only five cases of central nervous system disorders, including transient neuroparalytic disorders such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, have been reported among millions of individuals vaccinated to date, but the incidence is too low to be related to immunization, as the basic incidence of these disorders is about 1 case per 100,000 people per year.