If somebody has rabies it almost always means inevitably death because the person won’t be able to drink water anymore(i guess the “not able to drink water in not the only reason but one of the main reasons)
Why is it not possible to put somebody in a coma and feed him trough tubes until he recovers ?
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>If somebody has rabies it almost always means inevitably death because the person won’t be able to drink water anymore(i guess the “not able to drink water in not the only reason but one of the main reasons)
Dehydration has been the historically most notable and immediate cause of death. It’s not as if early doctors would notice the damage to the brain. The fear of water was the predominant symptom that seemed like the most probable cause of death. Even if you manage to hydrate the patient, what the virus does to the brain will still kill them.
>Why is it not possible to put somebody in a coma and feed him trough tubes until he recovers ?
[This has been done](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLoEI9jNBvk), but only once. The idea behind putting the patient into a coma is that the increase brain activity the virus causes wreaks havoc on the brain, so reducing brain activity would limit the damage it could cause. It has been tried multiple times since then, yet only worked that one time. “Why did it work this one time and not others?” is the million dollar question.
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