Malang the fate of a six-year-old boy died after being bitten by a neighbor's dog. The neighbor initially refused to be honest with the victim's family. Even before he died, the boy was taken to the nearest health center with the intention of being given a rabies vaccine.
The puskesmas said that the wounds were still light, as well as SOPs that needed to be done before giving the rabies vaccine. The victim's family was asked to wait 14 days, whether the dog that bit died or not.
If the dog dies, then the puskesmas will give the boy a rabies vaccine. Therefore, the victim's family asked the dog owner's neighbor. During those 14 days were asked and the answer was not dead.
However, two months later, the victim began to show increasingly severe symptoms, such as fear of the air and pain after drinking water. These symptoms are signs of rabies whose chances of life are very small.
As a result, the victim's child's life could not be saved and after being investigated the dog had also died, unfortunately the dog owner's neighbor did not want to be honest.
First Aid After Being Bitten By rabies Disease Dogs Is an acute infectious infection that attacks the central nervous structure. Although in Indonesia it is better known as mad dog disease, 98 percent are indeed caused by dogs and the remaining 2 percent are caused by cats and monkeys.
rabies disease is transmitted by the animals through bite, scratch, and courts that are infected into the mouth, eyes, or open wounds. rabies symptoms usually appear 4 to 12 weeks after infection so that the most important thing is to carry out treatment as soon as possible before symptoms appear.
In addition to proper handling, you need to know that currently there is online insurance that provides protection benefits for rabies. So, when you are bitten by a dog, immediately provide first aid through the following steps.
1. Wash the bite wounds and bite wounds as soon as possible use soap on running water. Do this repeatedly for 5 to 10 minutes.
2. Get rid of foreign objects The next step of first aid is to get rid of foreign objects attached to the wound, such as strands of hair, dental pieces, or soil grains.
3. Press the injured area Press the injured area to remove and clean the germs while rinseing them with warm water. It is better to do it gently and slowly, not to deepen the wound.
4. Give antiseptic fluid Give the liquid that contains antiseptic and wait a while until the antiseptic fluid absorbs into the wound to kill the virus and speed up the wound healing process.
5. Balut luka Balut luka luka dengan kopangan atau kassastersi, jika tidak ada bisa gunakan cloth bersih sehingga menghentikan bleeding serta mencegah terjadinya infeksi akibat germs dari luar.
6. Check with the doctor Do not delay self-examination to the nearest health service for further treatment of injuries after taking first aid steps at home. In general, anti-rabies (VAR) and anti-rabies serum (SAR) vaccines will also be given.
7. Avoid contact with animals Avoid contact with biting animals. However, don't catch it with your bare hands, let alone kill, you should ask for help from the nearest rabies center or veterinarian.
In fact, without proper handling, rabies is at risk of causing complications that lead to death of up to 99.9%. As a form of anticipation from the start, you can register in Super Care Protection online insurance from Super You by Sequis Online starting from IDR 1,000 per day to always be protected from the risk of rabies.
Super Care Protection is an online insurance that will provide protection of up to IDR 1.5 billion per year for outpatients and hospitalizations from 30+ infectious/infection diseases such as Rabies, COVID-19, Dengue Fever, Tissue, Cholera, Diphteri, Tetanus, Cacar Air, Tuberculosis Bird Flu, Campak, Malaria, Antraks Infection, Yellow Fever, Pess Disease and many more.
Not only protection from infectious diseases, but Super Care Protection also provides protection from accidents for hospital treatment costs, surgical costs, physiotherapy costs, mobility aid costs, residential modification benefits to death compensation.
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