On June 13, the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases informed that the hospital's doctors had just received and treated a male patient with an acute infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by a cat scratch.
Patient TVN (63 years old in Hanoi ) recounted that after being scratched by a cat in his house with a few small scratches on the front of his left forearm, he disinfected his hands with hydrogen peroxide and bought Rifamycin to sprinkle on the wound. Two days later, red hives appeared near the wound accompanied by itching and blisters. After 5 days of home treatment, Mr. N. did not see any improvement. At the site of the cat scratch, the pain and swelling increased, spreading throughout the middle half of his forearm, and yellow fluid oozed out.
The patient then went to the General Infection Department (Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases) for treatment. The patient was diagnosed with cellulitis after a cat scratch without excluding drug allergy in the left forearm/cirrhosis.
Master Tran Van Long - Department of General Infections said that patient N. had a clinical picture that was more likely to be a drug allergy in a patient with cellulitis after a cat scratch. Therefore, doctors had to treat the cellulitis and combine it with allergy treatment. After a period of treatment, the hand stopped oozing, the wounds healed, and the patient was discharged from the hospital.
Dr. Long shared that cellulitis is a fairly common disease with symptoms of an acute infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The disease often starts in an area of swollen, hot, red and painful skin. Then it spreads quickly. The disease can occur anywhere on the body. Cellulitis often appears on the surface of the skin but is not harmful. However, when favorable conditions such as immunodeficiency, the elderly, cuts or scratches, cuts, cracks on the skin... these bacteria will penetrate the layers below the skin and cause inflammation and infection. If the patient is not treated promptly, it can be life-threatening.
Pharmacist Khuat Thi Oanh - Deputy Head of the Department of Pharmacy said that Rifamycin is an antibiotic used in the treatment of tuberculosis, which is widely abused as a topical medicine, commonly known as "red medicine" because the powder is red. Sprinkling antibiotic powder directly on open wounds irritates the skin, stimulates local inflammatory reactions, and can easily cause allergies and even anaphylactic shock. After a few hours of sprinkling, the antibiotic powder will dry, the concentration of antibiotics absorbed into damaged tissues is insignificant and has no meaning in preventing and fighting infections...
Therefore, if people have open wounds or ulcers that may be signs of infection, they should see a doctor soon. In case of being bitten by a dog or cat, people should immediately go to the nearest medical facility to get tetanus and rabies shots and monitor the wound. They should not buy medicine to treat themselves./.
Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/nguoi-dan-ong-bi-nhiem-trung-o-da-va-mo-duoi-da-sau-khi-bi-meo-cao-post958943.vnp
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