How to prevent cat scratch disease?

A few days ago, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital admitted two patients. The symptoms of these two patients are very similar. Both patients had a high fever of nearly 40 degrees and swollen lymph nodes. At first, the patient thought he had lymphoma, but after the examination, he realized that he actually had cat scratch disease. Cat scratch disease is a bacterial infectious disease transmitted from cats to people. This bacterium is called Toxoplasma gondii. Cats will enter the human body after being caught, causing a series of symptoms. The high incidence of this infectious disease is in autumn and winter. Although most patients will recover quickly, people with low immunity may lead to death. So, how to prevent the occurrence of cat scratch disease in life? Preventing cat scratch is not just about being careful not to be scratched by cats. There are many precautions. Please read quickly.

Keep your distance from stray cats. Many caring people who love cats will pity those stray cats and feed and water them. This new development and reform commission is commendable, but we must keep a proper distance. Although cats are cute and pitiful, your health and life also need to be protected. These stray cats are not vaccinated and will carry a lot of bacteria and viruses. Once in close contact with stray cats, such as touching stray cats, once scratched, or exposed to bacteria on stray cats, you may be infected with cat scratch disease. Therefore, when rescuing these stray cats, we must keep a good distance and take self-protection measures, such as applying thick glue.

Don't touch a cat with a broken skin. Although it looks very cold, the cat looks very cute with meat. Anyone who sees a cat wants to touch it and kiss it. Pat cats is a pleasure for many people. Just don't let you touch the cat's body, let alone let the cat lick your wound, it will pass directly through the cat's saliva.

Vaccinate cats regularly. Domestic cats begin to take the first injection at about ten weeks old, not less than nine weeks old, and then take the second injection at about twenty days. It will take another year to get another shot, and other vaccines should be carried out according to the advice of the pet doctor. In addition, cats should get rabies vaccine, usually the first dose starts around 12 weeks, and other doses of enhanced rabies vaccine should follow the advice of pet doctors. Domestic cats must be vaccinated, which is not only responsible for the health of cats, but also for the health of cat owners. If the vaccine is not given, ask the doctor how to make it up.

Tell the cat about hygiene every day, and the owner of the cat will be responsible for the cat and his own health. He can't just let the cat bring him some touching moments, or just want the cat to accompany him, but he won't pay for the cat. Cats should pay attention to hygiene every day, trim their nails regularly to avoid being accidentally injured by sharp nails when playing with them, give them lice and pesticides every once in a while, and take a bath to remove bacteria and parasites carried by their hair to avoid catching cat scratch disease.

Don't let the cat touch his tableware, watch some videos about pets. Many owners will feel sorry for their cats, so when eating or drinking water, they will directly let the cats eat and drink with their own tableware, or even eat together. This is absolutely impossible. You don't know how many bacteria will remain in a cat's saliva. When you use a tableware or eat a food, you will directly infect yourself with viruses and bacteria. The cause of cat scratch disease is not only contagious by being scratched by cats, but also contagious through these "close contacts".

Clean up the cat's excrement. If you have a cat at home, you must give it a special place to excrete. Cats are not allowed to defecate anywhere, which will pollute the air at home. Secondly, cats don't have a good habit. Most importantly, there are many bacteria and viruses in the cat's excrement, which are easily distributed in the air and directly transmitted to the owner. Whenever the cat excretes, it must be cleaned up as soon as possible, disinfected with disinfectant and properly disposed of. Don't litter.

Give your cat a regular physical examination. Every once in a while, take your cat owner to the pet hospital for a physical examination. In addition to checking whether cats carry various parasites, some vaccine resistance tests are needed. The purpose of this test is to see if effective antibodies are formed in cats by vaccination. If not, once a cat suffers from certain diseases, it will be directly transmitted to humans. Generally, it is enough for cats to check once a year, so that some infectious diseases of cats can be nipped in the bud in time and a series of diseases will not be transmitted to their owners. Once they bite or scratch their owners, the possibility of being scratched by infected cats will be greatly reduced.

Once you are scratched, treat it immediately. Don't touch other people's cats on weekdays. You don't know if other people's cats have viruses. Besides, cats are very hostile to people they don't know. Once they are annoyed, they may directly arrest you. Once scratched or bitten by a cat, don't wash it. If the situation is mild, rinse with tap water, disinfect with iodine, and use some anti-inflammatory ointment appropriately. If you are found to be bleeding, you must see a doctor at once. If an infant is scratched by a cat, go to the hospital for examination and treatment at the first time.