Patients with cellulitis may have a fever, chills, or feel sick.
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This is particularly important with wild animal bites or dogs with unknown vaccination status.Ĭellulitis is a skin infection that can cause skin redness, warmth, and pain.
It often requires rabies immunoglobulin being injected both into the wound area and a remote muscle. Treatment and evaluation should be initiated as soon as possible. If you wait several days after the injury to seek treamtnet, the infection is often established and severe, compared to seeking medical care within the first few hours.Īfter animal bite wounds, rabies must also be considered. Thus, how quickly you seek treatment is important. This means the surgery is being performed to try to prevent an infection from developing or becoming severe if it is mild. Immediate treatment and starting antibiotics often protects the cartilage even if an infection may not yet be present. These joint injuries often require urgent surgical exploration to enlarge the wound to effectively wash it out and determine if the tooth penetrated into the joint. “Fight bites” to the hand and can cause particular problems when bacteria or foreign material (such as teeth) can become trapped in the knuckle (finger joints). This is when the tooth of the other person penetrates the skin of the puncher over the knuckle. When someone punches another person in the mouth, a “fight bite” may occur. Sometimes pills are used, and sometimes IV antibiotics are needed for more severe infections and ones that involve bone or joints. Antibiotics are also commonly used during treatment. This called healing by secondary intention. If the wound is left open, sometimes it can be closed later, or the wound is left to heal on its own. Other wound treatments may include gauze packing into the wound. A larger open wound is often easier to wash out and, depending on location, degree of contamination, and what deep tissues are exposed, the wound may be closed with stitches or left open. Small wounds often need to be each squeezed to express fluid or enlarged to better clean them. The smaller the puncture wound (cat bite), the higher the infection risk as only the surface of the skin can be cleansed. Thorough washing, soaking, and often surgical drainage of the bite wound is needed to clear the infection. Other bacteria that cause infection come directly from the mouth/teeth of the “biter.” Both human and animal bites are common. In a bite, bacteria from the patient’s own skin can be driven deep by the tooth puncture. The unfortunate ongoing problems may occur even with proper and rapid treatment.īelow are some specific types and causes of infections in the hand and fingers: It is important to recognize that long-term complications from hand infections can occur. Therefore, the treatment of these infections varies. There are multiple types and causes of infections.
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