Daily Health Care

Treatment
* If there is bleeding, try to stop pressing the affected
* Wash the wound with soap and water
* Use a local antiseptic and antibiotic
* If there are plenty of tissue loss immediately go to your doctor
* The use of antibiotics is justified in infected wounds, head or facial injuries, elderly patients or babies at risk of complications.
* If possible the animal causing the injury must remain under surveillance

Complications
From a medical standpoint, the concern is more focused and aimed at the effects that these bites can lead, being the main consequences of psychological and infectious complications both the bacterial and the possible spread of rabies. Depending on the extent and depth may also include aesthetic and functional sequelae, which require multiple treatments for attention and resolution.

Prevention
* Try not to have dogs as pets to guard if you have small children or elderly people at home there
* Monitor closely the children’s relationships with their pets, Educate them on how to play and accompany your dog to prevent the animal is provoked by the child
* Try not to have pets to wild animals as monkeys, ocelots, squirrels, bears, and raccoons
* Keep updated immunization schedules for both children (tetanus) and animals (rabies)

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