What dietary taboos should you pay attention to after getting the rabies vaccine?

If you eat foods that you are allergic to, a lot of alcohol, or overly irritating foods that will cause stomach pain and diarrhea, other normal eating and drinking will basically not affect the effectiveness of the vaccine, nor will it aggravate side effects.

Last week, my little niece was scratched on the back of her hand by a neighbor's cat. When she went to the community hospital for her first injection, she carried a small notebook to note down her dietary restrictions. The day after the injection, she was craving for salmon sashimi, but her mother stopped her. I specifically asked the disease control officer I know well. The doctor said that as long as she is not allergic to salmon, she can eat it. Later, the little girl happily ate half a plate without any problems. She also ate her favorite sauced beef for the next few injections as usual, without any discomfort during the whole process.

Why are there so many different taboo sayings? In fact, in the early years, the domestic rabies vaccine technology was not so mature, and the probability of fever, local redness and swelling after vaccination was relatively high. If someone happened to have allergies or gastrointestinal discomfort after eating spicy food or seafood, it was easy to blame it on "conflict with the vaccine", and word of mouth became a taboo. The purity of the current rabies vaccine is very high. Domestic and foreign disease control guidelines do not explicitly require the avoidance of ordinary food. Normal diet will not interfere with the production of antibodies at all.

Of course, if you encounter a doctor specifically telling you to avoid spicy food and seafood when you go to get vaccinated, you don’t have to think that what they say is wrong. This is actually for clinical safety reasons - you are afraid that if you have a sensitive gastrointestinal tract or are allergic to seafood, you may experience diarrhea, rash, throat swelling and other discomforts after eating, which coincide with the common side effects of vaccines (such as soreness at the vaccination site, slight fatigue, and low fever). By then, you will not be able to tell whether it is a food problem or a vaccine problem, and you will have to go to the hospital for no reason. Last year, when my colleague received the second injection of the vaccine, he did not believe in evil and made an appointment with a friend to eat spicy butter hot pot. He already had chronic gastroenteritis. He had diarrhea three times that night, and there was a small bump on his arm where the injection was given. He was so frightened that he went to the emergency room in the middle of the night. After examination, the doctor said that the spicy food irritated the gastrointestinal tract, and the bump was a normal local reaction to the vaccine. It happened to be one, so it was a false alarm.

In fact, the most important thing to pay attention to after getting vaccinated is not to be too anxious, and don't even dare to touch the things you usually like to eat because of dietary restrictions. Just like you don't need to completely stop eating when you have a cold. Eating something you like will make you feel better, which is more conducive to a stable physical condition. As long as you don't eat allergenic foods that you usually dare not touch, and don't get drunk, you will basically have no problems. There are about a dozen friends around me who have received rabies vaccinations. They eat hot pot and drink coffee. When the antibody titers were finally checked, they all had high enough titers, and no one had any problems.