Hi, my father was bit by 2 street dogs on last tuesday & we took him to hospital within 2hrs after bite..& done the vaccination. Now is suffering from fever, Pain & bite areas got swollen..& tomorrow we are going to hospital for the next vaccination.So why is this fever?
Hello As you mentioned that your father was bitten by street dogs, you took vaccination for rabies and also hope for tetanus. Now your father is having fever with swelling on the bitten place. Swelling, pain, fever all are suggestive of inflammation at the site of bite. When such case visit actually wound remains open and sometimes anti rabies vaccine (human rabies immune globulin, administer 20 IU/kg body weight full dose in and around the wound(s). So you are also taking regular anti rabies vaccine, that's a good thing. Now consult your treating physician and get antibiotics, anti-inflammatory Chat Doctor. Fever is due to inflammation and infection. Hope this will be useful for your father. Good luck.