Large Stomach needles for rabies?!


Question: Large Stomach needles for rabies.?
When I was little I remember my counselor in summer camp telling me not feed the squirrels because if they bit you and you got rabies then you would have to go to the hospital and have large needles stuck into your stomach. Is what she said true.? Or was she trying to scare me so I wouldn't feed the squirrels.?Health Question & Answer


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It's not true any more. I got bit on my nose by a coyote and had to go for rabie shots. The inject the vaccine where the animal bit you which in my case was my nose and hand. I had to have 4 more needles which I got in my arm. No big needles nothing in my abdomen. That first shot in my nose hurt. Your councilor wasn't correct so go feed the squirrels.Health Question & Answer

Well you dont mention how long ago this was. It use to be true that you would have to have like around i think it was six shots in the stomach. But I believe know it is much easier but there is still a need to have more then just one. When I was a kid I was bite by a dog, and they told me if they didn't find the dog to test it I would need this, the doctors were getting ready to do it setting up, now maybe it was the 'kid eye vision' but it looked huge am just so happy that I didn't acctually need it.Health Question & Answer

I think its true. I think you need to get a series of shots in your stomach. I remember my mom telling me that when I was a kid too and this might sound stupid but I saw an episode of House the other night and that was the treatment they gave someone. That being said, you probably would have been able to tell if a squirrel had rabies cuz they'd act weird so she probably was trying to scare you too :)Health Question & Answer

It used to be that you had to have shots in the stomach for rabies. But that is no longer true. They gave them to my daughter in the hip or thigh. And needles have changed a bit for everything, they are smaller.Health Question & Answer



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