What to do, but situations when the domestic dog bites the owner or someone from members of household though she always was peace and friendly are frequent. Sudden flashes of aggression at animals are still not studied up to the end. Thus, the dog can react to external irritants, danger, and it can sometimes be a symptom of certain diseases.
In most cases the domestic dog does not put serious damages therefore if the wound visually does not look awful and is more similar to a scratch, then it is possible to be limited to use of local antiseptics.
What to do if the dog attacked on the street and bit?
First of all, it is necessary to remember that such attacks can come to the end it is deplorable, and a furious animal to put serious injuries. Therefore it is better not to come into contact with stray street dogs, and whenever possible to lay the route through crowded, passable places. If attack did not manage to be avoided, then surely loudly you shout and call to the aid, at the same time try to lay down on a stomach and if it is impossible, then to hide the face in hands.
Expedient will use a pepper barrel, the ultrasonic device for scaring away of animals. When using pepper cocktail do not forget to consider the direction of wind, otherwise itself can make worse, but not a dog.
What to do if the dog bit till it bleeds?
The wounds given by a dog most often happen two types: chipped and cut.
At chipped wounds the skin blanket is broken, and they well heal on condition of observance of antiseptic measures. Reasonable wounds are already more serious – there is a gap not only epidermis, but also muscle and connecting tissue, and the nervous terminations in the place of a trauma are in some cases damaged that is the direct indication to suture. Such wounds heal many times worse.
These injuries are serious therefore there should not be a question where to address if the dog bit. The most faithful and, perhaps, the vital decision will be to ask for medical care in emergency station.
If you addressed to medical institution, then the decision than the doctor accepts to process a wound after a sting of a dog. Initially the wound is washed with solution local antiseptics, it can be peroxide of hydrogen or solution of Furacilin. Further, if the wound does not need further surgical manipulations, is processed by iodine solution around, or diamond greens and becomes covered by a sterile gauze bandage.
If the doctor who is carrying out processing notices dirt in a wound, then there will be a need for introduction of antitetanic serum. Further, after recovery, vaccination is carried out by tetanic anatoxin.
Further, it is necessary to listen attentively to the health and at emergence of symptoms of infection of a wound, such as raising of the general temperature, perspiration, wound suppuration, weakness, immediately to ask for the help.
However tetanus and infection of a wound – not the only possible complication of a sting. The hydrophobia disease, or rage are much more dangerous to receive an opportunity.
The symptoms of rage appearing after a sting of a dog
The causative agent of rage gets to an organism of the animal bitten together with saliva, quickly getting on nervous fibers into a brain. The clinical picture develops promptly and is characterized by the most dangerous symptoms, such as: hallucinations, spasms, paralysis, increase separated salivary glands, fear of light, water and open spaces.
The delay in treatment comes to an end with a lethal outcome because of paralysis of respiratory organs.
Therefore it is necessary to remember initial signs of development of this illness:
- pain and swelling in the field of a wound;
- feelings of twitching and spasm in the injured extremity;
- temperature increase of a body;
- fever;
- nausea.
At detection at itself one or several of the symptoms listed just it is necessary to get as soon as possible to the doctor who will appoint to make a rate of vaccines against rage, and then the sting of a dog will not become fatal.
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