The child often their behavior, unknowingly, can cause a dog to bite, what do parents. How to protect your baby? What to do if the dog is a stray, and the crumb was very much afraid?
Bite the child can not be a dog, but also other pet: cat, hamster, rat. First of all, be sure to show the child to the doctor.
Indeed, the main danger - the probability of infection by rabies virus.
How to treat the wound
Calm yourself and calm your baby. You will need stamina and patience.
1. For wounds need alkaline environment - wash it as much as possible with plenty of water and soap. If no soap, using pure water from the tap or bottled (water from the river or lake is not suitable)
2. Irrigate the wound is necessary to remove the saliva of the animal.
3. Treat the wound with antiseptic - suitable chlorhexidine, hydrogen peroxide, tincture of calendula, chamomile broth.
4. Apply ointment for antibacterial wound edges (povidone-iodine, Betadine Solution) - in saliva any animal is a large number of bacteria that can cause unpleasant infections disease.
5. In no case did not tape the wound tape. She needs to breathe.
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Vaccination against rabies
- If this is familiar to you dog, ask the hosts if she did during the year rabies vaccination. If so, what threats you it is not.
- If you do not know very well the dog and the owner, or a random encounter, ask for his phone number - is highly desirable that the host showed a document confirming the fact of vaccination. The clinics provide such a document in his hands.
- Worse, if the dog is a stray. Urgently to the doctor!
If bitten by a dog was infected, or there is no way for her to watch - for example, the bite stray animals, the only chance to save the baby to be vaccinated antiarabicheskoy vaccine.
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Current vaccines are not injected into the stomach, as we did in the last century, and is not required 40 injections, as it was before. The medicine is administered intramuscularly in a specific pattern: the first injection in the same day, then on the 3rd, 7th, 14th, 30th and 90th days, a total of 6 injections. Ask whether there is such a vaccine in a conventional clinic, if not, do not spare money for a private clinic.
Hydrophobia (rabies) - a deadly infectious disease pathogen is a virus Rabies, causing inflammation of the brain. After the appearance of signs of rabies, it is already impossible to cure, the only way to salvation - vaccination at an early stage. Therefore, in any case of doubt, the bite of an animal or if saliva drops fall on the mucous membranes, rabies vaccine is administered. If bitten by a dog after 10 days of observation all right, vaccination stopped.
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