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My cat has quite badly got my leg

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cat01234 · 15/10/2024 16:34

What do I do now?
This is the back of my leg and this calf has venous insufficiency.
Do I need to do anything other than wash it? I'm really freaked out. Had to lock myself in another room and she was trying to get at me. I'm calling the vets tomorrow.
Thanks.

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My cat has quite badly got my leg
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Supersimkin7 · 15/10/2024 17:50

Op - gp soonest - I didn’t see your update. Bites are automatic ABs.

MonsteraMama · 15/10/2024 17:50

ManxDi · 15/10/2024 16:45

Wash it with cool green tea - just the cheap stuff, no need for lovely leaves. Wash it repeatedly. It's fine.

Green tea will do exactly fuck all to get rid of the potential bacteria that's got in from a cat scratch or bite.

I'm normally very much an "it'll be fine, stick a plaster on it" person with most injuries but not with any bites or scratches, particularly from animals who dig around in boxes of shit and piss. Go to a walk in or check with your GP just in case, better safe than sorry. If you wait until it starts stinking or weeping or going crusty you've already left it too long.

Hallelujah2020 · 15/10/2024 18:11

As a veterinary nurse so well used to cat bites and scratches and probably more likely to just ignore stuff like this BUT you need to get antibiotics

Vets and vet nurses NEVER mess around with cat bites we always get antibiotics

Sandybeaches5 · 15/10/2024 20:34

Supersimkin7 · 15/10/2024 17:39

Meh, amateur hour is upon us. I have survived half a century of the spirited pet.

OP, be calm for now - wash the scratches (they are shallow & don’t look like bites) and apply savlon or other antiseptic.

GP in two days if it goes yellow and crusty or starts tracking red.

You’d know if you’d been bitten hard enough to need ABs.

Do you think all of us who've told the OP about our situations with cat bites are making a load of crap up?
Honestly, you don't sound very bright if you don't understand how cat bites can affect the body. Just because YOU have been lucky with being bitten, so many people are not.

Original poster
cat01234 · 16/10/2024 09:10

Hi all

Thank you for your advice. I rang my GP this morning who directed me to ring 111 incase I need to be seen in A&E?! Surely that is a bit of an overkill?

I will ring 111 now but I really don't see the need for A&E (unless obviously they tell me to, then I will go but I fear being laughed out of there!)

OP posts:
helpfulperson · 16/10/2024 09:17

I'm surprised your GP won't deal with with it.

When I got bitten I got given a GP appointment by the receptionist even though normally it would be the nurse for a cat bite but she was fully booked. That's how seriously they took it. And they had checked my record for tetanus so had that ready to give.

So if the advice is a&e go, especially as you have other relevant condition.

AutumnLeaves1990 · 16/10/2024 09:20

Supersimkin7 · 15/10/2024 17:39

Meh, amateur hour is upon us. I have survived half a century of the spirited pet.

OP, be calm for now - wash the scratches (they are shallow & don’t look like bites) and apply savlon or other antiseptic.

GP in two days if it goes yellow and crusty or starts tracking red.

You’d know if you’d been bitten hard enough to need ABs.

My mum was hospitalised and almost died after an infection from cat scratches after a cat attacked her dog. Don't be so flippant.

Singleandproud · 16/10/2024 09:21

A&E is probably for a tetanus shot, perhaps they don't hold it at the clinic or in case of sepsis which is a very real risk with cat bites.

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