A Hospital Based Study to Know The  Adverse Effects After Administration of  Antirabis Serum in Animal Bite Victims  Attendded Anti Rabies Clinic

Dr. Pratibha Chauhan; Dr. Girdharee Lal Saini; Dr. Suman Bhansali; Dr. Rita Meena

Volume : III, Issue : II, February - 2014

A Hospital Based Study to Know The Adverse Effects After Administration of Antirabis Serum in Animal Bite Victims Attendded Anti Rabies Clinic

Dr. Pratibha Chauhan, Dr. Girdharee Lal Saini, Dr. Suman Bhansali, Dr. Rita Meena

Abstract :

Background: Rabies is a highly fatal disease of CNS caused by the rabies virus and is transmitted predominantly by the saliva of infected domestic or wild animal[1, 2, 3]. Rabies remains an important public health issue worldwide due to the prevalence of endemic animal rabies specially in the developing countries[3]. Objectives: The present study was undertaken to know the adverse effects following administration of equine anti rabies serum in category III adult animal bite victims. Materials and methods: This is a hospital based study conducted among the category III animal bite victims who had attended Anti Rabies Clinic at M. G. Hospital, Jodhpur from 1st January 2013 to 31st January 2013. Results: In our study of 12 months period, 6125 patients attended the clinic, out of which 25 patients were Category I, 1923 were category II and 4177 patients were category III animal bite victims. We have selected only 1750 adult patients for our study. Out of this 1437 were adult males and 313 were adult females. Out of 1750 category III adult animal bite study subjects, 2.91% (51) reported some type of adverse effect. Out of those 0.34% (6) complained of nausea + vomiting + vertigo and they were managed conservatively. 0.45% (8) patients complained of Swelling + fever, 0.57% (10) complained of pain + Swelling, 0.40% (7) complained of erythema + rash, 0.45% (8) patients complained of pain + swelling + rash, 0.22% (4) patients complained generalized pruritus + urticarial rash, 0.11% (2) complained of arthritis and only 0.05% (1) patient complained of generalized lymphadenopathy.