How to deal with rabies bite?

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Rabies, also known as hydrophobia, also known as mad dog disease, is an acute infectious disease caused by rabies virus with high mortality. Rabies is the main source of infection, its food, feces or trough will carry the virus, which may be transmitted through the damaged wound. Other animals such as cats, wolves, foxes and bats can also transmit the disease. How to deal with rabies bite? Let's talk about it

How to deal with rabies bite?

Wound treatment: keep the wound open. If the wound is not big, first let the blood flow for a while, wash the wound with alkaline detergent (such as soapy water), then use red mercury, iodine, etc. to wipe the wound, and properly bandage or stick band aid; If the wound is large, you should tie a hemostatic bandage or pinch the skin around the wound, and quickly go to the hospital or the nearby health and epidemic prevention station for treatment.

Epidemic prevention injection: after biting, you should quickly go to the health and epidemic prevention department to inject human rabies vaccine or rabies high immune serum. The earlier the time, the better. It must not exceed 24 hours. In this way, the possibility of rabies infection is very small. There are often people who mistakenly believe that people will not get rabies even if they are not vaccinated after being bitten by dogs who have been vaccinated against rabies. In fact, this is wrong.

Rabies vaccination is only to prevent dogs from being infected with rabies. Even if the vaccinated dogs do not get sick, there are still a certain proportion of healthy and disease-free dogs (i.e. the rabies virus is carried in the body) who can also excrete the virus through saliva. Therefore, even if a dog that has been prevented and appears to be healthy bites a person, the person bitten must still be treated and prevented according to the above methods.

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The most effective way to prevent rabies is to inject rabies vaccine to dogs, cats and other pets. At the same time, pay attention to observe the behavior of pets. If there are abnormal behaviors such as mental abnormality, irritability, fear of water, salivation, and aggression, the animals must be isolated to avoid sudden attack.