A Jolittaine had to receive a prevention treatment for rage after being bitten in the face by a bat earlier this week.
Everything occurred on Monday around 3 p.m. while Alexane* came back from a friend.
“In my courtyard, I went to see behind the shed to see if my brother’s bike was still there. Then, when I went near the fence, I saw something that rushed to me in the face, ”she said in an interview with my Joliette.
At the time, she did not know what had touched her. She said that she perceived her as a big impact that had struck her in the face and who had tangled in her hair before leaving.
“I turned around, then that’s where I saw, on the house, the bat that tried to fly,” she said.
Quick management
Alexane first thought he had only received a blow to the face.
“It’s funny as a pain because it hurts as if someone had given me a blow to the face. […] I told myself that it was sure that I was going to have a blue because it is still really big the shock, ”she described.
When she saw the traces of bites on her face, the Jolittaine called her sister to know what to do. It was then that the latter told him to go to the emergency.
A blow to the hospital, the young woman was quickly taken care of.
In less than two hours, Alexane received preventive treatment for rabies, doses of immunoglobulin and a vaccine. You should know that the doses are different for each person depending on the weight, so they cannot be ready in advance.
“There is a nurse who injected me with the immunoglobulins around the bite to rinse, then after, I had two vaccines in the immunoglobulin thigh and a vaccine against rabies in my arm,” she said.
In addition to this, Alexane has three meetings at the CLSC to receive additional doses of the rabies vaccine.
Note that a case of bat bite that occurred in Mont-Royal was also publicized by TVA Nouvelle at the beginning of the month. The media had reported the words of a biologist who pointed out that this kind of attack is “extremely” rare.
*We used a fictitious name to keep the young woman anonymous.
