This is taken from KidsHealth:
"If Your Child Is Bitten by an Animal
If your child has been bitten by an animal, take the following steps right away:
* Wash the bite area with soap and water for 10 minutes and cover the bite with a clean bandage.
* Immediately call your doctor and go to a nearby emergency department. Anyone with a possible rabies infection must be treated in a hospital.
* Call local animal-control authorities to help find the animal that caused the bite. The animal may need to be detained and observed for signs of rabies.
* If you know the owner of the animal that has bitten your child, get all the information about the animal, including vaccination status and the owner's name and address. Notify your local health department, particularly if the animal hasn't been vaccinated.
* If you suspect that your child has been bitten by an unknown dog, bat, rat, or other animal, contact your doctor immediately or take your child to the emergency department.
Treatment
At the hospital, it is likely that the doctor will first clean the wound thoroughly and make sure that your child's tetanus immunizations are current.
To keep any potential infection from spreading, the doctor may decide to start treating your child right away with shots of human rabies immune globulin to the wound site and vaccine shots in the arm. This decision is usually based on the circumstances of the bite (provoked or unprovoked), the type of animal (species, wild or domestic), the animal's health history (vaccinated or not), and the recommendations of local health authorities."
Important: Seek medical help immediately if you/your kid are/is bitten by a suspected rabid dog. If left untreated, it always end up fatal.
Beware of dogs if u go Bali - Indonesia
First thing is to wash out the wound as soon as you can.markfch wrote:The qn I have is if we're bitten in Bali, do we come back to S'pore to seek treatment or to the local hospital?
Then get to a doctor asap.
It may take from a few days to much longer than that (depending on location of wound, physique etc..) for the symptoms to manifest.
But usually once symptoms appear, it's too late.
Thanks Way2Go, your suggestion makes sense.Way2GO wrote:First thing is to wash out the wound as soon as you can.markfch wrote:The qn I have is if we're bitten in Bali, do we come back to S'pore to seek treatment or to the local hospital?
Then get to a doctor asap.
It may take from a few days to much longer than that (depending on location of wound, physique etc..) for the symptoms to manifest.
But usually once symptoms appear, it's too late.
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