Swelling of a finger from a bite is usually categorized into two situations: animal bites or insect bites that cause swelling of the finger. According to the different situations to take different treatment methods, in the case of the doctor to confirm the diagnosis of effective treatment.
1. Animal bites can be categorized as poisonous and non-toxic.
(1) non-toxic: the patient can use a relatively large amount of water to wash the wound, and then available soap and water to continue to rinse, disinfected bandages, regular dressing changes, taking amoxicillin, cefadroxil and other antibiotics to prevent and control infections, and injection of tetanus antitoxin to prevent tetanus.
(2) venomous: if the venomous snake bites lead to swelling, iodine povidone disinfection, you need to use lidocaine plus chymotrypsin line wound local closed injection, and then topical treatment of Jidusheng snake tablets. If the swelling of the wound is obvious, the wound can be dilated, negative pressure suction, try to drain out the venom in the wound. At the same time, intravenous infusion of appropriate antivenom treatment.
Follow-ups also need to continue to change the medication, take Jidusheng snake tablets and other treatments.
2. Insect bites: The patient needs to use iodophor to smear the swollen area, and after the iodophor dries, topical hydrocortisone butyrate cream and other medications can be used for treatment. Severe itching can take loratadine and other drugs to treat.
Finger bites swollen patients can not blindly deal with, need to go to the hospital in time, follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.