As a pet owner, do you often have the experience of being scratched or bitten by your own pet? After being accidentally injured by a pet, do you need to get a rabies vaccine? Your pet knows everything about it and has all the vaccines. If you are caught or bitten, you should go to the hospital. It’s really troublesome, but what if you get rabies without vaccination???

Next, the editor will share with you some common knowledge about rabies vaccine and rabies. If you are raising a pet, you should watch it carefully~

What is rabies?

Rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by the rabies virus, which is common in humans and animals. It is more common in dogs, cats, wolves and other carnivorous animals, and humans are mostly infected by their bites.

The clinical manifestations of rabies include unique hydrophobia, fear of wind, pharyngeal muscle spasm, progressive paralysis, etc. Because the symptoms of hydrophobia are more prominent, it is also called hydrophobia.

What are the symptoms of rabies?

Initial stage: low-grade fever, loss of appetite, headache, fatigue and cold-like symptoms.

Mid-term: Excitement, fear of wind, difficulty breathing, difficulty excreting, extreme fear of water, even hearing the sound of water flowing or seeing water can cause severe throat muscle spasm.

Late stage: general paralysis, eventually death due to respiratory muscle paralysis and bulbar paralysis.

How to clean the wound after being bitten by a cat or dog?

If there is bleeding from the wound, first squeeze out the blood from the surrounding wound and wash away the blood with clean water. Then wash the wound with soap and water alternately for 15 minutes, and finally disinfect with iodine. If the scratch or bite wound is very serious, you need to go to the hospital immediately.

If you are bitten by a cat or dog, do you need to be vaccinated?

Because there is currently no effective treatment for rabies, and the mortality rate after the onset of the disease is extremely high, many people worry about whether they will be infected with rabies virus after being injured by their own dogs and cats, and are eager to get vaccinated.

But is this really the case? After being bitten by a cat or dog, how to judge whether to go to the hospital for rabies vaccination?

If you are accidentally scratched/bitten while playing with your cat or dog, and the cat or dog has been regularly vaccinated against rabies and has not been exposed to other animals recently, you can basically rest assured and just treat the wound at home. good. If you are still worried, go to the hospital to get vaccinated~

If you are bitten by your own cat or dog, but it has not been vaccinated against rabies, it is difficult to tell whether it is healthy. In this case, you need to go to the hospital immediately to get vaccinated.

If you are bitten by a stray cat or dog outside, you don’t know whether it carries rabies. For safety reasons, it is best to go there immediatelyHospital vaccination.

Finally, the rabies vaccine you receive has an expiration date, usually six months. If you are bitten again within six months of being vaccinated, you don’t need to get vaccinated again. If it exceeds half a year, you need to go to the hospital for vaccination again.

Ten-day observation method

Note: The ten-day observation method circulated on the Internet is only applicable to pets who are well-informed and ensure that pets receive rabies vaccination every year. If other unknown animals are involved, please don’t take any chances and get a shot as soon as possible!!!

It is normal for pet owners to have a little friction with their pet, and in most cases, the pet does not do it on purpose. However, the editor hopes that pet owners will also learn to protect themselves when getting along with their pets!

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