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Rabies vaccine
Can I take rabies vaccine as precaution or as a prevention , what is the procedure, do I need a prescription for that?
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Pre-exposure vaccination may be offered to high risk groups like laboratory staff handling the virus and infected material, clinicians and persons attending to human rabies cases, veterinarians, animal handlers and catchers
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Pre-exposure vaccination is administered as one full dose of vaccine intramuscularly or 0.1 ml intra-dermally on days 0, 7 and either day 21 or 28.
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No need for precaution
Any dog bite take immediately
Otherwise not necessary
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Rabies vaccine is administered only after an animal bite. Taking it prior to the bite is not useful.
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Inj ARV can be administered at any hospital, you dont need a prescription.
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Wash the wound with soap and water in case of bite.
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Dr. Manoj Kumar
General Physician
9 yrs exp
Dehradun
Need few more details
Kindly consult
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Dr. Anuj Mothsra
General Physician
6 yrs exp
Jhunjhunu
Can help you, kindly consult and provide detailed history for proper diagnosis and further management
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Dr. Danish Qureshi
General Physician
15 yrs exp
Jaipur
I can help you with the next course of action. I need few more details. Kindly consult.
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Dr. Nimmi Mulwani
General Physician
10 yrs exp
Ahmedabad
You should take it only if you have animal bite.
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Dr. Sachin Pariskar
Pediatrician
8 yrs exp
Pune
No need for prescriptions
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Dr. Aditya Prasad Padhy
Urologist
12 yrs exp
Bhubaneswar
No
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