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| Topic | I just discovered a hole in my belly |
| thisworld 02/27/24 3:24:34 PM #26: | UnicornRaline posted... You can use rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide to clean most small wounds and both are very cheap. You can use alcohol but not hydrogen peroxide. Please don't. https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/health-library/all/2023/04/should-you-use-hydrogen-peroxide-clean-wound Yeah, you assume it's bubbling and it's just killing everything in there and getting rid of all those germs in your wound. Well, the problem with hydrogen peroxide, it may be killing the germs, but it's also killing the healthy tissue in there too. So that's the biggest challenge with it is we think that we are sterilizing the wound and getting rid of all the bad stuff, but we're also then killing the good tissue in there as well, and that can then cause a larger wound than we would have had otherwise. tremain07 posted... As for work, that's a conversation for tomorrow the doctor said I just have to make sure I never touch the area physically, apply ointment directly on the whole and cover it with gauze and a bandaid, change daily and it should be gone in a matter of weeks. Good to hear that TC ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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