Animal bites
Life outside the city gives the child the opportunity to come in contact with nature. However, contact with some animals living in the forest can be dangerous
and require immediate assistance. Therefore, one must be able to assess situations - when it becomes extreme, and when it is only a minor disorder, in which it is sufficient to apply an anesthetic.
Danger can trap a child in the city. A large number of stray cats and dogs often bite curious kids.
If your child is bitten by an animal, first of all the question arises about a possible infection with rabies. The main carriers of the rabies virus are wild animals, especially foxes, bats, raccoons. Also carriers of the rabies virus, can be livestock, dogs and cats. Rarely all rabies occurs in proteins, chipmunks, rats and mice.
Animals affected by rabies behave very strangely, they may attack unreasonably,
has an abundant foam formation in the mouth.
With any bite of an animal, if it is not a domestic dog or cat, it is necessary to seek the help of a doctor who can determine whether vaccination against rabies is necessary or can be avoided. If the bite was a domestic dog or a cat, about which the owner can say with certainty that they are perfectly healthy and they have made all the necessary preventive vaccinations, the doctor can not be treated.
However, in the case where the wound remains at the site of the bite, which must be sewn and processed, the child should be shown to the doctor.
Your actions
An animal that had all the necessary vaccinations done in its time, most likely it's great. Nevertheless, you should insist that the animal in any case be inspected by its owner within 15 days for the detection of rabies. As a rule, most owners can be trusted, but if you have doubts, you have the right to demand that the animal be inspected by appropriate specialists. If the animal that bitten the baby was infected with rabies, it is necessary to immediately show the child to the doctor and immediately begin treatment.
The bite site should be thoroughly rinsed with water and soap and grease the bite with iodine solution. After disinfecting the wound, apply sterile gauze and take the child to the hospital.
First of all, the doctor will decide whether to vaccinate or use the serum for rabies. An unprovoked bite of a wild animal or an attack of an animal infected with rabies may require the use of both a vaccine and serum. The size of the wound, as well as its location significantly affect the final decision of the doctor. Especially dangerous are bites on the head.
If an animal that bites a child can not be found, in this case, as a rule, vaccination is used. This is one of the most difficult moments in the treatment. Vaccination is performed daily for 14-21 days, followed by 10-20 booster sessions. Very often such a vaccine causes local skin reactions, fever, chills, pain. More serious reactions to the vaccine are extremely rare.
Many doctors prescribe inoculations against tetanus if the child has been vaccinated a long time ago, because with a bite in
Rabies is a contagious disease that is spread all over the world. Rabies is transmitted to a person with a bite of an infected animal through saliva containing a high concentration of the virus.
If a child has been bitten by a suspicious animal, including a wild one, after local treatment of the wound, it is necessary to introduce anti-tetanus serum and a rabies vaccine. The vaccine is given intramuscularly on the 1 st, 3 rd, 7 th, 14 th, 28 th and 90 th days after the bite, together with a special anti-rabies gamma globulin.
the baby's body could get tetanus bacteria. However, this is extremely rare.