What to do if you are bitten by a rat and what to do if it is not broken, and what to do if you are

After being bitten by a rat, there is no broken skin and no bleeding, and it is generally not infected with the rabies virus. Rats are mammals and may carry plague or rabies viruses. If you are bitten or bleeding, you must go to the nearest vaccination station to get a rabies vaccine within 24 hours.

Rabies is a malignant infectious disease, once the infection will enter the central nervous system through the broken **, and then infect nerve cells, and finally appear hydrophobia, rhinophobia, muscle spasms, respiratory failure and death, and there is no cure, the mortality rate is 100%. Therefore, if you are bitten by a rat, look carefully to determine if there is any broken skin or bleeding. If there is skin breakage or bleeding, be sure to go to the epidemic prevention station to get a rabies vaccination.

A rat bite should never be taken lightly and must be dealt with immediately. The wound can be rinsed with soap and water, then disinfected with 2 iodine or 75 alcohol, and the epidemic hemorrhagic fever vaccine can be injected at the local disease control center as soon as possible; At the same time, rabies vaccine should also be injected to prevent the occurrence of rabies.

If you are bitten by a rat, you must also get a vaccine, although it is not broken, but you must also get an injection, if you don't get an injection, it is easy to get the plague, which is very dangerous. Be sure to wash it with soapy water when you first bite it, and then remember to get an injection.

It is best to go to the hospital for a check-up.

The incubation period of plague is long.

1.Plague.

Being bitten by rats is susceptible to Yersinia pestis and will get plague, mainly with symptoms such as high fever and chills, swollen and painful lymph nodes, pneumonia, severe toxemia, etc., manifested as vomiting, shortness of breath, blood pressure drop and even systemic failure.

2.Bleeding symptoms.

There will be an incubation period of 7 to 21 days after the mouse bite, which is easy to cause hemorrhagic fever with kidney syndrome, with the characteristics of acute onset, rapid progression, and severe symptoms, in addition to high fever, it will also be accompanied by "three pains and three reds" symptoms, that is, headache, back pain, orbital pain, face, neck, upper chest congestion and flushing, it looks like drunkenness, and there will be obvious bleeding points in the patient's oral palate and pharynx.

3.Symptoms of typhus.

The clinical characteristics of typhus symptoms are acute onset, patients will have persistent fever, body temperature can reach 39 to 40 degrees, often accompanied by headache, muscle aches in joints and muscles of the whole body, cough and other symptoms, you can see the patient's face, pharyngeal congestion, rash, hepatosplenomegaly.

What should I do if I am bitten by a rat?

1.Treat the wound.

Disinfect as soon as possible after being bitten by a rat. Rinse the wound with water and soapy water first, try to squeeze out the blood from the area where the rat bites, and then disinfect it with medical alcohol. If the wound is relatively small, it can be wiped directly with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol, and if the wound is more severe, it is recommended to pour alcohol directly on the wound.

The treated wound should not be bandaged, open for ventilation, and go to the hospital as soon as possible to receive it**.

2.Go to the hospital for the vaccine.

Infectious diseases have an incubation period, and if you go to the hospital for vaccination before the onset of the disease, the vaccine can play a role in preventing, controlling and even eliminating infectious diseases. Anti-rabies serum can be injected into general bites, and rabies immune globulin can be injected if the wound is deep and severe.

3.Monitor body temperature.

The body temperature should be monitored for a week after being bitten by a rat, and if you have a fever, you should suspect that it is caused by an infection and should go to the hospital immediately for acceptance**.

4.Take a break.

After being bitten by a rat, you should stay in bed, do not overexert yourself, and eat more nutritious foods to help improve your resistance.

5.Exterminate rats.

Eliminate rats in time to avoid being bitten twice, and try to take scientific and correct ways to kill rats, such as using rat traps, rat cages or sticky rat boards. At the same time, keep the environment clean and tidy, dispose of discarded food as soon as possible, and it is best to clean frequently.

In reality, rats are not cute at all, if they are bitten by rats, they must not be careless, they must do a good job of disinfection, and go to the hospital as soon as possible to receive **, and inject vaccines as required to prevent bacterial infection.