Cats are adorable and endearing. Due to survival reasons, cats need to grow nails, the existence of nails is easy to scratch the owner or others. When you accidentally get scratched by a cat? Otherwise, follow the steps below and you won’t go wrong.

There are two cases.

One, how to get scratched by a feral cat?

Be wild cat scratch must go to the hospital disinfection treatment, and injection of full epidemic prevention vaccine.

1. Speed cleaning the wound

Immediately after being scratched or bitten by a cat, rinse the wound with running water and squeeze the wound as you rinse to allow the blood to flow out, which can carry away some of the bacteria and viruses. After ten minutes of this rinse, immediately rinse again with soapy water, the same ten minutes. Then use iodine to smear the wound all over, then use alcohol to wipe the iodine on the wound, and then use iodine to wipe the wound, so repeated several times, generally not severe viruses and bacteria will be washed out of the body. In addition, there is no need to bandage or apply a band-aid after cleaning the wound, which can cause more serious infection.

2. Get vaccinated

Even if you clean up after yourself, you still need to get vaccinated. Of course, if you’ve been vaccinated within the last six months, you can opt out. Wild cats, their own virus, bacteria you are immeasurable, once scratched, you will soon be infected. So vaccines can’t be ignored.

3. Injection of antiviral serum

Scratches by feral cats, and the location is easy to infection, inflammation, in addition to timely vaccination, you also need to inject anti-viral serum.

After injecting vaccine, RECOMMEND 15 DAYS later to the hospital review, blood test to check whether the injection is successful, whether to produce antibodies.

Two, how to get scratched by the house cat?

Your own cat gets scratched all the time. If your cat is well vaccinated, clean and rarely leaves the house, don’t be too nervous after being scratched. Just rinse the wound with water and disinfect it with iodine and alcohol. Don’t worry about hemostasis. Rinse the blood and then disinfect it.

Cats are adorable and impossible to ignore. It is also suggested that you should pay attention when playing with your cat. It is better not to let it catch you. Be gentle when giving your cat a bath to prevent scratches.