Although dogs are gentle pets, they can also be emotional. What should you do if you are scratched by a dog? Is it easy to get tetanus and rabies? You should go to the hospital promptly after being scratched by a dog. Handle it, and be sure to get rabies vaccination. If there are scratches, don’t scratch them. Clean them first. The specific method is as follows:

1. If the dog only hurts the surface skin and does not hurt the tibia, you can wash it with salt water and then disinfect it with alcohol or iodine. Generally, there is no big problem;

2. If you don’t have those items at home, you can also use soapy water to clean them. The soap itself can neutralize acid and other substances, so it has a certain effect on scratches;

3. If the dog scratches and bleeds, and the wound is deep, you must first clean the wound with warm water, then stop the bleeding, and finally apply anti-inflammatory drugs to the injured area and bandage it;

4. After the dog is scratched, you must not treat the problem carelessly. Go to Yiyuan in time to bandage and get rabies vaccine;

5. Summer is a hot season. If you are scratched at this time, the wound will easily itch, so be sure not to scratch it to avoid infection. The temperature is high and the recovery speed will not be very slow.

The above is the treatment method after being scratched by a dog. In fact, if it is just a scratch, the probability of contracting rabies is basically zero, because rabies bacteria are spread from the saliva of sick animals, and you need to identify the animal that bit you. Must be rabies.

The latest time for rabies vaccine is within two hours after being bitten, and the effect will be useless after a long time. Although pets may not contract rabies after being scratched, the probability of contracting cat claw fever is still very high, so after the injury You should take more antibiotics. Also be careful not to anger the animals, lest you get hurt.