my teenage daughter was bitten by a dog

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Anonymous wrote:This may seem like overkill, but I’d take her to an urgent care to get the wound cleaned really well and perhaps get a course of antibiotics. Dogs’ mouths are very dirty and it’s easy to get an infection if the bite has drawn blood. (Speaking from personal experience of dog bite on ankle requiring multiple shots, a doctor to debride and clean. I started out just doing neosporin but it kept hurting and not healing so i went finally 2 weeks later. Won’t make that mistake again)

If you do that the bite will be reported. Also, your insurance may file claim for costs against the other family.

So? Are you suggesting she should risk infection?

It will almost certainly get infected. The dog needs to be put down.

I truly hope this is someone being sarcastic.

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antibiotics

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Anonymous wrote:I would go to urgent care if there’s a deep puncture wound or the wound is red and warm or oozing. It sounds like the mark is more like a scratch. Not excusing the dog or owners, but not every nip or scratch from a dog requires a doctors visit.

This. There seems to be a lot of hysterical people in this thread. I wouldn’t feel compelled to pick the kid up in this situation, much less go to urgent care. Urgent care can’t clean a small/superficial wound any more than you can, and waiting 30-60 minutes to get it “cleaned” would certainly make it pointless. And unless they’re just trying to calm a freaked out parent, they’re not going to prescribe antibiotics for what was described. They’d tell you to watch it to see if it gets red.

doctors tend to prescribe antibiotics to stop infections, not to quell the nerves of parents. you sound singularly stupid and ill informed

You must not have much experience in medicine. Doctors will absolutely prescribe short-term meds to ease the concerns of patients. And antibiotics for freaked out parents is pretty much the stereotypical example of that.

We weren’t even given antibiotics for a tick bite. At least, it not until the lyme titer came back positive a few days later. Would they have if we asked? Yes, I’m sure they would have. Or my wife could have just prescribed them herself.

If YOU work in medicine, please quit now and take your rightful place stacking shelves.