Is it possible to get rabies from a scratch by a domestic cat?

Don’t be afraid, it’s okay.

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Squeeze the wound immediately to drain away the poisonous blood. Never use your mouth to suck the dirt from the wound. Blood.

Rinse the wound immediately. The key is the method of washing. Because the wound is mostly closed like a valve, it must be opened for irrigation. Although it may be a little painful to rinse the wound with tap water, you must bear the pain and rinse it carefully to prevent infection as much as possible.

You can use 20% soapy water or 1% chlormethionine to clean it thoroughly, then wash it with clean water, and then use 2%-3% iodine or 75% alcohol for local disinfection. Because the rabies virus is not very resistant to external environmental conditions, general disinfectants, heating and sunlight can make it inactive. The rabies virus is resistant to fatty solvents such as soapy water, acids, alkalis, and 45%-70% alcohol. , formalin, iodine preparations, neogermide, etc. are sensitive, but are not easily inactivated by Lysol. Sulfa drugs and antibiotics are ineffective against rabies virus. The virus in the brain tissue of dogs that died of illness in the wild in winter can be stored at 4°C for several months. , has certain resistance to drying and repeated freezing and thawing.

Moreover, according to statistics from scholars, only 30%-70% of people who are bitten by a real rabid dog or other crazy animal without taking any preventive measures will become ill.

In principle, the wound should not be sutured, bandaged, ointment applied, or powdered to facilitate detoxification of the wound. You can apply some antibacterial products. I use the ‘pain-breaking oil’ produced in Macau. Not bad.

If your pet has been vaccinated with a sufficient amount of veterinary rabies vaccine that meets the requirements, and during the immunity period of the vaccine, if a person is scratched or slightly bitten by such a dog, only the wound can be treated locally. Cleaning and disinfection without injecting human rabies vaccine. However, if the bite is serious, or the adult dog has not received enough injections, or the vaccination period has expired, or the vaccine is unqualified or ineffective, it is safer for the person to be vaccinated with the human rabies vaccine.

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Vaccination: my country is currently using a formaldehyde-inactivated vaccine cultured in hamster kidney cells to determine the cause of rabies. The immunization method is intramuscular injection of 5 injections, namely the 0th and 2nd injections. Inject 2 ml each on days 3, 7, 14 and 30. If the bite is severe or the injury is close to the central nervous system, double the amount of vaccine can be injected. If the vaccine is not used in time or the dose is insufficient, the preventive effect will be affected. Vaccines should be used within their validity period. That is to say, if you receive vaccination, it will take a month. My sister was bitten by a dog and had 5 injections in total in a month, which cost nearly 400 yuan, and each injection cost 70-80 yuan. < /p>

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You don’t have to worry. Most pet cats do not have rabies. Cats must have rabies to transmit rabies. I am scratched by cats almost every day. I have eight cats at home. If a cat does this and that every day, it is inevitable that he will get infected. After being caught, I always wash it first, then apply iodine, and then apply 'pain-breaking oil' after a while. I have been raising cats for almost 10 years, and I have never seen any related problems. Sickness. So don’t worry about this minor injury.

If you are worried, consult a doctor first and then get vaccinated. Most hospitals have it.