What to do if your skin bleeds from a cut from a puppy’s tooth

Bleeding skin cut by puppy teeth should be promptly rinsed with water, sterilized with iodine vapor, and injected with rabies vaccine. After being scratched by a dog the wound should be assessed and treated promptly and correctly. When local bleeding, skin breaks, mucous membranes are licked after the consideration of belonging to the third level of exposure, should use a lot of running water while squeezing and repeatedly wash, the local may be contaminated to the poisonous blood, from the distance from the heart proximal to the distal end of the extrusion, time more than 15 minutes. Povidone-iodine can be applied to disinfect the area after washing with soapy water. The main component of povidone-iodine is complex iodine, which can kill skin fungi, bacteria, viral protozoa, etc. by topical application, and will lead to local denaturation of amino acids and enzymes after application, thus playing a role in sterilizing. Through the home emergency treatment, timely to the local epidemic prevention station vaccination, because rabies once infected mortality can reach 100%, so in the dog, cat scratches should be timely injection of rabies vaccine, through the standardization of vaccination of most patients can produce rabies antibodies, can achieve a better preventive effect.