Rabies Cured

A girl picked up a bat and it bit her. Like a month later she felt bad (nausiea, ect..) and went to the emergency room. She had gotten rabies from the bat. Turns out rabies effects your nerves and brain, but doesn't really damage them. It causes them to send strange signals to the other body parts and the body parts destroy themselves from the signals. So they put her in a coma, and gave her (anti viral?) medicine. Later she woke up and... lived.

First time....

 

Rabies has freaked me out since I had to do a report on it in school... I find it reassuring to know that I can be bit by a wild animal, negate to seek medical treatment, and still survive. Thanks Green!

 

"They" put her in a coma? I am reading that correctly? The doctors put her in a coma?

Highly unlikely.

 

Er, yes, you CAN in fact induce coma.

Doctors do it all the time, but only if they have reason to believe that if they don't, the person is dead anyway - because it is not for sure you can pull them OUT of the coma.

A classmate at university ended up with severe meningitis and they put her in a coma to try and save her life. It worked, but they couldn't pull her back out and she later died.

 

Doesn't rabies only show up a year after the infection? And that the actual desease just lasts about a week, and then the victim dies. That is what I know, and I lived in a very Rabies endangered Area. You can get a vaccination against it, and if you get a bite, and are not vaccinated, they can still give you a serum that will save your life. But it has to be soon after the bite. But then again I have never heard a case of somebody actually getting rabies.


But wonders happen all the time.

 

there is NO "cure" for rabies . 1st sign of symptom's you're dead period.

 

That's interesting...apparently doctors did indeed,induce coma in this girl,and she ended up surviving rabies...this is the only article I could find about it,I guess this is what Green was talking about...it's a good read either way...

http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=USATODAY.com+-+Girl+cured+of+fatal+disease+with+new+treatment&expire=&urlID=12387813&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fhealth%2F2004-11-24-girl-survives-rabies_x.htm&partnerID=1660

 

Hmm. . . I am not sure if that qualifies as a successful treatment, then. . .

 

Wow! Apparently, they did!

Does anyone know how they induce a coma?

 

I know only about "artificial" coma, but that is probably something different. They do it with sedidatives, sleeping pills, and pain pills or so....

 

. . . but that wouldn't be a coma, that would be heavy sedation.

 

they call it artificial coma here. So it is something different.