Treatments
- Take a blood test
- Have a physical examination
- Wash cat bites and scratches immediately and thoroughly with running water and soap.
- Do not allow cats to lick open wounds that you may have.
- Control fleas.
- If you develop an infection (with pus and pronounced swelling) where you were scratched or bitten by a cat or develop symptoms, including fever, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and fatigue, contact your physician.
- If you take a physical examination it may reveal an enlarged spleen.
- Occasionally, an infected lymph node may form a tunnel (fistula) through the skin and drain (leak fluid).