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Cat scratch
My little gilr is 1.5 years old and she was playing with a cat a stray cat you can say and shee pulled her tail and cat scretch her her on her left side of fave scrtach is 40 mm long no blood nothing but the red line of mark is there she dosent feel pain means she is not reacting on it.. But it ia near toneye , her eye is saved by just 10 mm what should i do ,??/i washed her face with her soap(daffy soap) and applied soframicin what should i do next?
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Yes you should definitely wash the site and if the child is immunised as per age you don’t need tetanus vaccine but better get rabies shot . The chances of rabies in cat is very low but still you need rabies vaccination to be safe .
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