After the shrimp prick finger, according to the symptoms of the choice of home treatment or medical treatment, specific as follows.
1. Home treatment: shrimp prick finger after a slight pain, no redness, swelling, itching, etc., you need to actively remove the shrimp prick, while using running tap water to wash the lesions, try to remove foreign objects in the wound, and the injured area for alcohol disinfection and the use of sterile gauze bandage, and then regularly disinfected treatment.
2. Medical treatment: shrimp prick finger after intense pain, accompanied by obvious redness, swelling, bleeding, or can not pull out the shrimp prick, we need to promptly diagnosis and treatment. By the doctor using professional equipment to pull out the shrimp, clean the wound, iodine povidic disinfection and bandage, regular medication.
If there is pus or obvious redness and swelling in the wound after self-treatment, you need to go to the hospital for debridement and take antibiotics such as amoxicillin and cefaclor. If the wound is deep, tetanus antitoxin injection is also needed to prevent tetanus.