Bitten by lion - GP?

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Long story short, I’ve just got back from abroad and while I was there I got bitten by a lion. It’s not a serious bite but it did break the skin. The bite was on Monday, it’s healing nicely and there’s no sign of infection but do I need to do anything? Tetanus jab etc.? I gave it a wash at the time but haven’t had any medical attention.

NC’ed cos this is pretty identifying but I’ve been here yonks. Poo on the pouffe, garlic thread worms, pan pipe elf mum, minge etc.

I've had half a course of rabies treatment. I was bitten by a lemur in Malawi.

It came into the camp, loitered round the bar, shinned up my arm and bit me very neatly on the back of the neck, like it was used to killing critturs. Anyway, as it was a wild animal behaving strangely tame, and had broken the skin, I was a tad worried.

Travelled miles to the nearest hospital for the first jab, where they told me it wasn't a high rabies risk but they didn't know what I meant by "lemur" and gave me the jab anyway. I assumed it was my language issue as I was a forriner.

Anyway, the jab brought on the most awful headache I have ever had. I thought my skull would explode. Never had anything like it.

A few days later I'd moved on and was heading to hospital in another town for the second jab, but stopped for lunch. Got chatting to another tourist. "Oh," said she, on hearing my mission, "that would be Grumpy. He bites everyone. He's a pet of one of the crew at the next camp, brought from Madagascar."

It turns out there are no lemurs in Malawi. Except Grumpy.

Reader I did not have the second jab.

A lemur nibbled my daughter's hair.

I got savaged by a fish in Bourton on the Water once. There was blood and tooth marks.

Dd was sneezed on by a giraffe
Was a bit moist

Hoppinggreen the dolphin penis is number two on this list - compare it with the size of the human hand in the pic: www.ranker.com/list/weird-animal-penises/ranker-science

If your DH considers that so insubstantial that he could mistake it for a belly button, I'd quite like to meet him

My daughter was bitten by a stray cat. Not exactly the same thing as a lion 😂 but she was also treated with antibiotics. The bacteria in a cat’s teeth is not something to mess around with. She nearly had to have surgery to clear the wound, it was so badly infected!

pinkgloves I'm sorry to hear that. I've read up about it as we've had 2 scares and it sounds horrific. I've started giving monthly to have dogs vaccinated abroad as mostly children get it and it's so sad.
I'm sorry for your loss

puzzled
Dolphin penises may be substantial ( DH’s is adequate, thank you )but they are kept tucked away in a hole which may (allegedly) be mistaken for a belly button

Cat bites can be quite nasty. Have the wound checked and get a tetanus.

I was bitten rather badly by my pet cat. Hospital cleaned the wounds (all four of them) gave me a tetanus jab and a week of antibiotics.

If UK is your usual residence you should have made sure you had an up to date tetanus before venturing near wild animals, in fact any animals overseas. Whether a bite or a scratch you should seek medical advice and be more careful!

I stroked a lion cub once although it didn't bite me, however it did a very loud roar at one point and subsequently there were some very damp places on the mats where the nursery children had been sitting.

I doubt that nursery child wee is as efficacious as giraffe spit, which is a shame because it's a damn sight easier to source.

Hope it wasn't as bad as this soft headed sod metro.co.uk/2019/04/12/man-mauled-lion-trying-pet-9177825/

Yeah, the London Evening Standard has picked up the S.African lion bite story too it seems you got off lightly, OP, it says this twat-- chap nearly lost his arm.

@Fifflefaffle thank you. I didn't know her so well. My Step Mum and family are absolutely besides themselves though.

If UK is your usual residence you should have made sure you had an up to date tetanus before venturing near wild animals, in fact any animals overseas

You are no more likely to get tetanus from animals abroad than animals the UK. Tetanus (Clostridium tetani) is present in soil, so animals that are at high risk of having it in their mouths are farm animals and those that root about in the soil e.g. pigs, badgers etc. An African lion will be lower risk than a British pig.

Tetanus (Clostridium tetani) is present in soil

Isn't it still a higher risk somewhere like Africa rather than the UK? (Unless you're on Gruinard.)

I suppose I should answer my own question by googling "incidence of tetanus UK."

It was only a quick Google, but far fewer cases here because of immunisation. Don't remember having heard of animals with it, though. (Grew up on a farm, so Mum was diligent about keeping our jabs up to date.)

I once had a monkey throw monkey poo at me

I had my ear bitten by a monkey , ear fine no chunks gone but it bled for ages. I was only primary age.

Lions are not open to rabies...dogs, bats are. Lions do not froth at the mouth...the roar a lot and eat you raw. I was, in my youth sick on the back of one in Malawi...it looked shocked and sauntered off into the Bush. It asked on big cats net if there was any chance of becoming infected.

Are you for real??? The Op made it clear that she had no idea what happened at those sanctuaries. Give her a break!

@starsparkle08 are you for real??? The OP has made it clear that she had no idea what went on in those sanctuaries. Give her a break!

It was only a quick Google, but far fewer cases here because of immunisation

That's right: tetanus is present in the soil, so you can catch it anywhere if you're unimmunised, but hardly anyone in the UK is.

Many deaths from tetanus in the developing world are in new born babies whose umbilical stumps get infected , though there has been a big reduction in recent years. Neonatal tetanus is virtually unknown here because the baby is protected from it as long as the mother is immunised.

@Rume you obviously think Op is thick ? Impaired ? In some way

Give them a break . Well this sort of tourism is just revolting