What should I do if my child is bitten?

What to do if your child is bitten? Pay attention to the following points when using rabies vaccine:

1. Treat the wound correctly.

The correct treatment of wounds is the key to preventing the disease, the sooner the better. It is best to get help from a doctor, but you can also deal with it yourself. The method is to squeeze the wound to bleed, and repeatedly wash the wound with 20% soapy water for more than 15 minutes, then rinse with plenty of water, dry it and use 5 % iodine is used to cauterize the wound to remove or kill the rabies virus contaminating the wound.

For deep wounds, a syringe is used to extend the deep wound for perfusion and cleaning to achieve a comprehensive and complete purpose. Then disinfect with 75% ethanol, and then wipe with concentrated iodine tincture. The sooner local wounds are treated, the better. Even if it is delayed for 1-2 days or even 3-4 days, the local wound should not be ignored. If there are scabs on the wound at this time, the scabs should be removed and treated according to the above method.

Wounds should not be bandaged or sutured, and open wounds should be exposed as much as possible. If the wound must be bandaged and sutured (such as if it invades a major blood vessel), ensure that the wound has been completely cleaned and disinfected and anti-rabies serum has been used as described above.

2. Inject rabies vaccine as soon as possible. After being bitten by an animal, you should inject rabies vaccine as soon as possible. The sooner, the better. The best time for the initial vaccination is within 48 hours of being bitten. The specific injection time is: one dose (2 ml) of vaccine is injected intramuscularly on days 0, 3, 7, 14, and 30 respectively. "0" refers to the day when the first dose is injected (and so on for others). If the vaccine cannot be injected in time due to many factors, the rabies vaccine should be used based on the principle of "early injection is better than late injection, and late injection is better than no injection".

3. Animal bites infected with suspected rabies virus should also be vaccinated. Animals can spread rabies to each other through fighting and biting, and people can become infected with rabies after being bitten. Therefore, for insurance purposes, all animals bitten by dogs or other animals should be treated as rabies bites and vaccinated against rabies promptly.

Note: During the vaccination period, be careful not to let the baby drink strong tea, coffee, or eat irritating foods, such as peppers, onions, garlic, etc.; at the same time, prevent the baby from catching cold, strenuous exercise, or excessive fatigue , to prevent colds.

How to prevent rabies

a. Pets are not allowed to enter the baby's room or sleep with the baby. If the housing area is limited, you can add a mesh cover to the baby's cradle.

b. Do not let the baby feed the pet alone.

c. Do not put the baby in a stroller or walker and let him play by himself, because the baby's little hands may "tease" the pet at any time.

d. Do not let pets perform exciting game actions in front of your baby to prevent pets from being overly excited and causingharm the baby.

e. Once you find a pet hissing, barking, or growling at the baby, or if it shows signs of anger, you should stop it in time and isolate the pet from the baby.

f. Teach the baby how to gently stroke the pet, but do not let the pet lick the baby's face.

g. Teach your baby to stay away from stray dogs and cats.

There are three ways of transmission of rabies

Because dogs are kept in the habit of raising dogs all over the world, among animals, dogs have the most contact with people. close. In addition, dogs are highly mobile and possess the characteristics of biting behavior, so dogs have become the main link in the rabies epidemic. According to statistics, the proportion of people bitten by various animals who contract rabies is: 80.07% bitten by dogs, 9.25% bitten by cats, 0.64% bitten by wolves, 0.03% bitten by foxes, and 0.03% bitten by farmers. Animal bites accounted for 0.64%. Among them, dogs account for the highest proportion, so dogs are the main source of infection.

1. Infection caused by being bitten or scratched by a dog or other animal, or licked by a dog or other animal. Rabies virus invades nerves through wounds and mucous membranes and causes disease. This is the main mode of infection.

2. Infection of the hand from an accidental puncture wound during butchering or skinning. According to statistics, among 86 rabies patients, 78 were bitten and 8 were slaughtered, skinned, and stabbed.

3. Infection through the digestive tract. Animals that died of rabies were buried underground, frozen in winter, and then picked out by wild dogs or other animals, whose meat was eaten and infected with rabies.