What should I do if I am bitten by a puppy?

This summer, news caused by dogs came one after another. We all hope that people and dogs can live in peace, but people are still hurt by dogs from time to time. This is not true. Recently, a colleague of Yue Jun was accidentally bitten. Due to improper treatment of the wound, it causes mild infection, redness and swelling of the wound, and even suppuration. Need to go to the hospital for debridement.

How to deal with a dog bite wound? Ask them to make suggestions for everyone and avoid the "pit" of wound treatment.

Let's be specific.

At present, rabies is a disease that is difficult to cure. Once it happens, the mortality rate is extremely high. Therefore, if you are determined to be bitten by a dog, you must be vaccinated against rabies in time, and you need to be vaccinated with passive immunosuppressants if necessary.

The follow-up surgical treatment of severe and complicated animal bites is best carried out by experts or under the guidance of experts. The doctor will judge whether suture is needed according to the nature and depth of the wound and whether it hurts blood vessels.

In order to reduce the virus as much as possible, some people, inspired by martial arts dramas, try to suck the virus out of the wound with their mouths. Yu Weihua, deputy chief physician of the vaccine clinic of Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital, warned against such an attempt. If the oral mucosa is damaged, the rabies virus will spread faster after inhalation. For this reason, it is not recommended to squeeze the wound by hand.

Don't bandage a dog bite.

"Don't bandage the wound." Chief physician Lu Jianhua, director of the emergency department of Guangzhou First People's Hospital, said that after a wound appears in the body, our first reaction is often to stop bleeding and bandage it. However, this countermeasure does not apply to dog bites.

He stressed that if bitten by a dog, the first thing to do is cleaning and disinfection. Open wounds are more convenient for repeated flushing and drainage of blood, thus reducing the chance of infection.

Do I have to go to the dog injury clinic to treat the wound?

"Standardized and thorough wound treatment is very important, which is of great significance for preventing rabies and avoiding secondary bacterial infection." Lu Jianhua introduced that wound treatment includes thorough cleaning, disinfection and subsequent surgical treatment.