Bitten by a domestic kitten, bleeding. Do you need an injection?

I was bitten by a domestic kitten and needed rabies vaccine. Scratches and bites of warm-blooded animals should not be taken lightly, and rabies vaccine should be inoculated at the dog injury clinic in time, and rabies immunoglobulin should be inoculated for those who reach Grade III exposure.

Rabies virus has central nervous toxicity, showing acute encephalitis, water phobia, photophobia, dysphagia, mania and other clinical manifestations, and the mortality rate is as high as 100%. Generally speaking, rabies virus exists in the salivary glands of animals. If you are bitten and your skin or mucous membrane comes into contact with the saliva of a sick animal, you may be infected with the virus.

Extended data:

If you are scratched or bitten by an animal, you should immediately wash the wound with tap water, squeeze the soft tissue near the wound during the cleaning process, and wash the residual animal saliva in the wound.

If conditions permit, it is best to wash the wound repeatedly with soapy water and clear water 15 to 20 minutes, then disinfect the wound with iodophor or alcohol, and try not to sew or bind the wound. After the wound is treated, the injured person should immediately go to the nearby dog injury clinic to inject rabies vaccine and rabies immunoglobulin to prevent rabies.

People's Daily Online-People bitten by warm-blooded animals must be vaccinated against rabies in time.