First, wash the wound quickly. Every second counts, and the contaminated rabies virus on the wound is washed away as quickly as possible. After a long time, the virus will enter human tissues and invade the central nervous system along the nerves, causing death. The second is to be thorough. Because the wounds bitten by dogs and cats are often small in the outside and deep in the inside, it is required to enlarge the wounds as much as possible to fully expose them, and squeeze the soft tissues around the wounds hard. The amount of water to be washed should be large and the water flow should be urgent. It's best to wash them with water from the tap. Third, the wound cannot be bandaged. Except for a few big wounds that hurt blood vessels and need to stop bleeding, there is generally no need to take any medicine or dressing, because rabies virus is anaerobic, and rabies virus will grow in large numbers under the condition of hypoxia.
After repeatedly cleaning the wound, you should send it to the hospital for further cleaning (remember that the wound in the hospital should be carefully cleaned), and then get a vaccine to prevent rabies. It is especially important to point out here that after being bitten by a dog or cat, never let the wound go untreated. The mistake is that not only the wound is not washed, but it is more harmful to apply mercurochrome and gauze to the wound. Don't travel long distances to big hospitals for treatment. Instead, the wound should be thoroughly cleaned locally and injected with rabies vaccine within 24 hours.
Rabies virus mainly exists in the saliva of animals, with the highest content, and its secretion also contains a small amount of virus. If people make out with them or get bitten by them, they will get infected with the virus. However, being infected with the virus does not necessarily mean getting sick. If you are infected with a small amount of virus, the toxicity is not strong, and your body has strong immunity, you may not get sick and become a recessive infected person.
Rabies virus is highly toxic. Once it enters the human body, it mainly attacks the brain and nerve tissues and spreads along the direction of human nerves, so the target of the attack spreads to almost all nerve tissues including cerebellum, spine, kidneys and internal organs. , leading to central nervous system failure, so it is almost impossible to be rescued and the mortality rate is quite high. However, the incidence of rabies is particularly low, and once it occurs, it is almost 100% death.
But it's not just animals with rabies that carry the virus. It seems that healthy dogs and cats may also carry rabies virus.
Rabies is not transmitted from person to person. At present, the epidemic prevention department mainly focuses on prevention. If you care about rabies patients and come into contact with their saliva, we also recommend that they be vaccinated against rabies.
Vaccination against rabies after being scratched or bitten by cats and dogs is mainly aimed at this kind of bite, not a preventive measure once and for all. Because there is a wound on the body, it is only a therapeutic vaccination. After vaccination, antibodies are produced in the body, which is just a precaution before this wound.
People who have not been bitten by cats and dogs themselves can also be vaccinated against rabies, and they can be vaccinated at the health and epidemic prevention station according to certain procedures. The time and times of inoculation are different. The purpose of early injection is to play a preventive role before being bitten. If you are bitten in the future, you don't need to take so many vaccines. A small amount of vaccines will produce antibodies quickly, thus reducing the incidence of patients and reducing the number of vaccinations in the future. The protective and epidemic prevention effect of the vaccine can generally reach more than 98%, and the effect is still very good. But the premise is that the vaccine must be qualified and meet the requirements of the World Health Organization. Because everyone's situation is different, there are certain individual differences, which is why the guarantee probability is not 100%.