Can a dog bite and bleed without an injection?
Need an injection.
After being bitten by a dog, you should go to the hospital for rabies vaccine immediately. Especially if you are bitten by a stray dog or a dog that has not been vaccinated, you should go to the hospital for an injection as soon as possible. The earlier the injection, the better the immune effect and the greater the protection chance. If you are bitten and bleed, you should immediately squeeze out the blood from the wound and wash it repeatedly with plenty of water to reduce the virus from invading the body.
I was bitten by a dog and didn't bleed. Do I need an injection?
After being bitten or scratched by dogs, cats, wolves and other animals. As long as it doesn't bite the skin, the biting cat or dog belongs to a healthy pet at home, rabies virus is difficult to invade the body through intact skin, and rabies vaccine can be exempted.
But if you leave traces of tooth marks on your skin, you can't be careless. Sometimes, although there is no skin damage, in fact, tooth marks mean skin damage that is invisible to the naked eye. In this case, rabies virus may invade the human body along the tooth marks. Therefore, the bitten part should be disinfected immediately, and the part with tooth marks should be thoroughly cleaned with soapy water, coated with iodine, and then injected with rabies vaccine all the time.
What happens when a dog bites without rabies vaccine?
Vaccination of rabies vaccine can prevent the virus from spreading directly between cells, reduce the amount of virus proliferation, and at the same time, it can also remove the free rabies virus, prevent the virus from breeding and spreading, thus preventing rabies.
If you don't get rabies vaccine, although it doesn't mean that you will definitely get rabies, the probability of rabies outbreak will greatly increase. Moreover, rabies is a fatal disease, and the mortality rate after onset is almost 100%. So far, there is still no effective treatment in the world. Therefore, pregnant women who have been bitten should also be injected with rabies vaccine in time.
After being bitten or scratched by an animal, rabies vaccine is injected throughout the whole process, and at this time, the body will produce anti-rabies antibodies, but the duration of this effective antibody is very short. If the bite is within 3-5 months from the last vaccination, 2 injections are enough. If it has been more than 6 months, it should be re-injected.