#human bite

Widow’s Bay 1.10 – We Hope You Enjoyed Your Time!

I realized my previous ask may not have been clear (darn character limits!) the person doing the biting thinks they're a zombie, but is a human (albeit one that has been gnawing on rats and bunnyrabbits for a while). Thank you again for being so awesome!

Hey there! You’re pretty awesome too!!

So the first thing is that this character won’t be getting stitches right away. Bite wounds are usually left open so that the bacteria in the wound have somewhere to drain. There’ll be dressings but the wound will be left open for the first 72 hours, then may be closed with sutures.

This isn’t terribly different from a dog bite (except humans are grosser). The wounds will be cleaned, and may be cleaned every day for a little while. Antibiotics may be given prophylactically if the wounds had to be closed immediately for some reason. 

But unless the wound gets infected, they may not even need antibiotics! If the wound gets hot, red, swollen, and tender, with a purulent discharge (pus), then yeah, definitely they need antibiotics, but otherwise they’ll just be allowed to heal on their own.

As for after care, as long as their antibiotics finish out, it’s mostly changing bandages (like you said).

Best of luck!!

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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Human Bite: How dangerous is it?

Animals are not the only ones that can inflict a bite wound, humans also bite each other. In most hospital Casualty rooms human bite wound cases rank third after dog and cat bites.

  Human bite is capable of transmitting dangerous viruses like Hepatitis B, Hepatiti C and herpes simplex viruses. Bacteria that can be transmitted includes Syphilis, Tuberculosis, Actinomycosis and Tetanus.

Some…