Cat Bites In Veterinary Practice?
Tuesday June 7, 2005
DESERTWILLOW asks: "I hear that being bit by a cat is serious and not something to be taken lightly. I will be enrolling in veterinary care pretty soon as a Veterinary Tech, and I know the cats bites are dangerous because they carry this bacteria in their mouth called Pasteurella, and can travel through your bloodstream. Does anyone run to the doctor immediately after being bit by a cat, and is that [what is] required in a practice once you do get bit by a cat? Do you have to get immediate medical attention?"
Comments
cat bite should be taken very seriously, expecialy if its a puncture wound. i was bit by my cat in a vets office and the vet told me to go imediatly to the ER. i shruged it of thinking “its just a cat bite” come to find out that cat bite almost killed me. with in 3 days i had gotten soo sick i was passing out. the drs told me im lucky i came in, a few more days and i probably would have not made it. so i’d say yeah there worth getting checked RIGHT AWAY
I lived with a friend for a few months, when I moved in she had two cats and two dogs. That was fine with me. When I moved out, she had nearly 50 cats and one dog, don’t ask what happend to the other dog. The place was a mess, and no matter how I cleaned up there was more to clean up, it became uncontrolable.
About 4 months after I moved out she died. She was in the hospital for a week and died. I think she must have contracted some type of illness from those cats.
Question is this: Why do cat people need more than one cat?
One of my cats bit my mother. The bite barely broke the skin and didn’t bleed. Within 6 hours or so, her hand was so red, swollen and painful, we went to the emergency room.
She needed an IV drip of antibiotics and had to take antibiotics for the next ten days.
It is day 3 after the bite and her hand is much better, but you have to take an animal bite seriously.