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Mar 15, 2011

Babies were bitten by pet or scratch emergency care

Many people think that children most likely to be strange or wild animal bites, but in fact most of the babies were being familiar with the animal bite or scratch. Such as domestic cats, dogs, and other rodents. Now, pets of families, pet for baby\'s injury incidents also increased. Therefore, when parents let babies play with pets must handle with great care, better let the baby to drink pet keep a certain distance.

Emergency nursing of baby after bitten by a pet scratch,

(1) baby were bitten by dogs, cats

Parents first to see the baby\'s wound. If the baby\'s wound is deep, or a lot of blood, gauze firmly suppress bloody local at once, as far as possible, blood stops. And then bring the baby to the hospital to do careful checks. If the wound is small baby, wash the wound repeatedly apply large amounts of SOAP and water for 5 minutes, rinse when possible to expand the wound, and use force to crush the surrounding soft tissue, managed to wound stained in blood on the dog\'s saliva and wounds clean minimize the intrusion of viruses, dry or cauterizing a wound with 5% iodine to clear after killing rabies virus contaminated wounds. After the initial treatment of the wound, parents should immediately take children to the epidemic prevention station, under the guidance of doctor study on resistance of injection of rabies vaccine, and tetanus.

(2) baby scratched by cats

Parents to be mixed with warm water and SOAP and water, to wash the wound the baby for 5 minutes. Be careful not to use peroxide or other germicidal solution for the baby to clean a wound, it will only make the baby more and more pain. If the bleeding in class, to pressure with a clean gauze live bleeding to stop bleeding. Simple observation after 10 minutes, if the child\'s wounds are still bleeding, or on the child\'s face, hands, the wound appear inflamed phenomenon will bring children to the hospital at once, watch out for infection of cat scratch disease.

(3) baby were bitten by a rodent

More and more parents small animals like rodents for the baby, but very easy to overlook these special pet some of the virus. May cause fever, headache, herpes lymphatic swelling, inflammation of the throat, and so on.

For example mice like to eat baby tender meat with milk, when sleeping baby when suddenly cry, parents need to carefully check the baby, to see whether there are been mice bites. By rat bite wound is small, easily overlooked. Because the mouse can transmit many diseases, after it was bitten by rodents such as mice, should be dealt with promptly.

Wash the wound with water, contamination of blood in wounds extrusion, and hydrogen peroxide in disinfection of water.

To the hospital to consult a doctor as soon as possible.

Squirrels, mice can carry rabies virus. After a normal human being crazy animal or suspect animal bites, rabies vaccine for injection is the most important preventive measures.

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