Study Proves - Cat bite can turn serious

According to a recent conducted at the Mayo and published in Journal of Hand Surgery indicates that a cat bite lead into hospital stay. It is a common belief that dog bite can be infectious but this study shows that cat bite can turn into serious injury. The study analyzed that 193 patients have been admitted in the same context from the year 2009 to 2011. Most of them are middle-aged women. As per the study conducted it was found that the patients got bites either over the wrist or the joints. They have a higher risk of hospitalization as compared to normal bites. This study shows that cat bite should not be treated leniently. One of the researchers Dawn Bothun, explains, “The infection from the cat bite reached my tendon. Every time they would stitch me up after flushing the wound the infection would just get worse. The pain almost drove me up the wall.”