Now many young people will have pets. Although pets are cute, they do not hurt their owners very much. Especially if pets love to play, it is more common for them to scratch or bite their owners. So if you are bitten by a pet cat at home, will you get rabies? Do you need an injection? How likely is the cat to get rabies from scratch?
Can you get rabies if you are scratched by a cat
Most mammals can be infected with rabies virus. Generally speaking, if the biting cat scratches people when it is not in the period of rabies, the scratched people will not be infected with rabies. If the cat has some zoonoses, it is possible to transmit the disease to people through the wound, such as rabies, cat scratch fever, Pasteurellosis, tetanus and other systemic diseases and grapes Local infections such as cocci and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. If a cat bites during rabies 3-5 days before death, it may have rabies. Especially the stray cat, it carries a lot of germs, once scratched the probability of rabies is very high.
Do you have to be injected if you are scratched by a cat
It is the most important guarantee to protect oneself from the disease that we should accept the standard treatment as soon as possible. For rabies vaccine, follow the principle of the earlier the better. The best time for the first injection is 48 hours after being bitten. More than 48 hours can also be vaccinated rabies vaccine, effective immunization should be rabies virus into the nervous tissue before, otherwise vaccine antibody is powerless. The incubation period of rabies is generally within three months, and 95% of the patients are within one year.
What to do after being scratched by a cat
1. Wound cleaning
Wash the wound thoroughly with soap water or flowing water for at least 15 minutes, and then clean the wound with normal saline.
2. Wound disinfection
It's not enough just to clean, but also need to have a clean cotton ball to dip the water on the wound dry, and then use alcohol or Iodophor for disinfection.
3. Rabies vaccination
If you are bitten by a cat or a mouse or other animals, you must go to the hospital in time for diagnosis and treatment after simple treatment. Follow the doctor's advice and vaccinate.
4. Prevention of tetanus
If the bite wound is deep, we need to go to the hospital for professional treatment to prevent tetanus.