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health advisory Hospital Diseases 2007-11-12 20:33:54

a person is affected by rabies,the doctors gives drugs to bring him to a coma stage and the antibody increases now ,how this antibody increases?

Answer:

Treatment of rabies exposure include administration of immune globulin and rabies vaccine which increase antibodies in the patient.

The induction of a coma, by producing a temporary partial stop in brain function, would protect the brain from damage while the body built up an immune response to the virus.

So hopefully the patient can be soon taken out of coma,since the useful antibodies are approaching sufficient level.

Good luck.

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Animals like horses have natural fighting agents against rabies just as humans have antibodies.

The blood of such an animal is collected, the antibodies are obtained through processing. To this small amounts of rabies germs are added and injected to the patient.

Antibodies in the human body start fighting those germs and antibodies from the other animal aid them.

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