Posted on 01/09/2019 9:56:44 AM PST by Gamecock
This actually hints at why I’m really not interested in visiting Asia. Or France.
In health care we talk about common vs uncommon conditions like this:
If you hear hoof-beats, it is more likely to be a horse (common issues) than a zebra (uncommon).
Sometimes we forget that our patients travel to places where there are a lot of zebras.
Note to self: Puppies in India are not cute, they are the devil!
Note to self: Puppies in India are not cute, they are the devil!
Who in their right mind goes to Asia for a yoga retreat?
Doctors seem to have a bad habit of writing off their female patients like this. If she’d have been a male, they’d have taken the patient seriously and run tests until they identified the problem. A pox on her doctors.
That’s where most ‘healthcare’ is going these days. Ignore the patient, trust the symptom lists.
Also why I would never be interested in a woman who thinks she has to go to Asia for yoga.
My wife was a nurse who some years ago had a patient who had traveled to Africa and was bitten by his own dog he brought with him, which had been bitten by some other animal. He contracted rabies, and by the time it was diagnosed after he returned home, it was too late.
Like you said...hoof-beats.
The symptoms are difficult to diagnose from, but once it takes hold, there isn’t much help for you. I am not surprised it was missed. Apparently, being nipped by his dog wasn’t even foremost in his mind.
No, bgill. That isn’t the case. Rabies is, by all accounts, difficult to diagnose symptomatically, and there is no single test, and the ones that are available are expensive and esoteric, not to be done one someone displaying those symptoms.
You are wrong on this.
Don’t let that stop you. I have lived overseas off, mostly on, since 1995. Rabies is not the problem. Except for this woman. It was definitely her problem. But, fear of rabies should not stop you from having an adventure.
No, really, she just came back from India, she's not normally like this. Sometimes.
See my post above. This is one of the reasons rabies is so deadly, people get a nip from a dog they try to pet, and don’t even give it a thought. Most times they wash the minor wound and that is the end of it.
If people get bitten by a raccoon, yes. If they get bitten by some other creature, sure. But a lot of people just do what she did and wash the hand with antiseptic soap.
I got bit by a cat once, one that belonged to a good friend and whom I had actually lived with, washed the wound, but ended up spending a week in the hospital and nearly lost my hand.
It wouldn’t have mattered. Once Rabies is symptomatic it is 100% fatal. There has been 1 exception, an experimental treatment where they pretty much had to turn the patients brain off. She survived but I dont know the degree of her recovery.
GP’s are “almost” useless other than their golden ability to write prescriptions.
I got misdiagnosed the last time I went to a doctor. I went home and googled my symptoms and immediately discovered I had Gout, and even found an effective natural cure (black cherry juice) that worked like a champ. The doctor did not know what it was and just told me to watch it and take care of my big, red, painful toe. This was at Swedish in Seattle.
And Puppies in Asia are delicious.
Currently have a new puppy (13 weeks old) to young to get rabies shot. He is a land shark (Golden Retriever), I have the arm and hands wounds to prove it. Got a tetanus shot the other day just in case. Running out of bandages, he might be an alpha dog... He gets his last round of shots in a couple of weeks that includes rabies. Would biting him back on the ear help.. lol
they found a skunk with rabies in our county. we hunt varmints with dogs and do skin out game...a huge fear for us who skinned out and touch hunting dogs is rabies...same age as the woman and do not travel. Does happen in the good old USA
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