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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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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.[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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

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