Mental Status Changes
 
Introduction
Acute Confusion
   Infectious
   Metabolic
Cases
   Headache
   Fever & Confusion
   Focal Weakness
   Nice Doggie
   She's Talking a Lot
   Hemiparesis
   Unconscious
   Police Call
 

It's extremely risky to approach stray dogs in Kenya.

     Furious Rabies
  • Malaise, fever
  • Headache
  • Hallucinatons
  • Pupillary Dilatation
  • Hydrophobia
  • Anxiety
  • Spasticity
  • Covulsions
      Paralytic Rabies
  • Less distinctive than furious rabies.
  • Pain and paraesthesia at site if the animal bite.
  • Paralysis
  • Muscle weakness, especially respiratory muscles.

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Treatment

  • Thorough wound cleansing.
  • Human anti-rabies immune globulin, 20 IU/Kg,
    • Half infused at wound site and
    • Half injected IM.
  • Human diploid cell rabies vaccine, 1.0 ml IM five times over one month period.
  • Once symptoms appear, survivals are rare.
  • Kalweo died six days after admission, presumed cardiac arrhythmia.

A 31 year-old woman is brought to the clinic for talking a lot.

 
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