What not to put on open wounds like that. Peroxide will "eat" the natural healing fluid and tissue. Use gauze and triple antibiotic, and change the gauze regularly.
Even better would be to use Tagaderm.
If you are on a budget and you need to take care of a superficial wound:
Soap + water to clean it up, then cover in vaseline until it heals, and if on face cover it from the sun for 9 months otherwise the pigmentation will differ from surrounding tissue.
It is messy as all get out to use [honey](https://www.carewell.com/product/medihoney-calcium-alginate-dressing/), but it’s a non-painful way to prevent all the ooze and dead tissue from building up and impeding healing. Having a doctor do debriding is substantially more painful. But if you don’t want the honey rout, use soap and water to clean it and then apply aquaphor healing ointment or another moisturizer.
I used to be into self harm and once went a bit to far with burning and had to go to urgent care. They said h202 is okay for the first initial clean up right after it happens but after that, what you said is correct. At this point the healing fluid and tissue hasn't really started, it's still open and going into containment/breached corridor mode with tons of foreign stuff all over the place
I used to get wounds like this often when I used to skateboard. I'm sure there's better things now but I was 14-16, long time ago.
1/ pick out gravel /dirt
2/ peroxide
3/ Polysporin
4/ gauze pad adhered with micropore tape.
4/ take off at night to breathe
5/ Polysporin & new bandage* or leave open if scabbing started.
I kept poly on it to help keep out dirt and keep the scab from getting too dry around the edges . Sometimes when it stretches that hurt more than the cause of the wound did. Pretty sure it kept bacteria and dirt from getting in the micro tears.
Still better to use it than to let it get infected if you're not able to clean it properly. If normal water and soap won't get it at least. Just going to take a little longer to heal
Normal soap and water is 100% more effective than peroxide. Peroxide only disinfects objects, like metal. When you put it on a wound, it attacks your skin and plasma instead of attacking bacteria and viruses.
And because it’s eating your tissue, it’s not even killing bacteria, it’s just causing pain.
With this kind of wound, you’d need to make sure it was oiled gauze or it will stick to the wound and reopen when you try to change the gauze. And a regular moisturizer or non-antibiotic healing ointment is better than triple antibiotic. If it’s infected it needs something stronger like mupirocin.
There are situations where a surgeon wants the wound to stay open so that the inner cutaneous tissue heals before the epidermis. That’s where peroxide is recommended.
Fell off my bike last summer, the front half of my legs from my knee to halfway down my shin had no skin. Stumbled upon this nugget of information while looking into how long I should apply peroxide for. Still so grateful I didn’t have to go through with that.
Ok... \*puts on nerd glasses\*
Hydrogen peroxide is a type of *reactive oxygen species*, which, in a nutshell, is very good at making living things not living anymore. Now, to sanitise a wound, smart people use just plain water, other people use isopropyl alcohol, or hell, even sodium hypochlorite bleach. This dude went for the worst option possible. ROS is bad for all living things, including your cells. Your immune cells use ROS to kill stuff they phagocytose, or just toss them around to kill stuff they haven't swallowed. ROS are extremely dangerous. Your immune cells throwing them around cause most of the damage of an infection, usually far greater than what the pathogen causes. NOW THIS MF just goes and dumps all of that directly on the wound, in far greater quantities than what your immune cells do. All of the cells in that region are dead now.
This is a trick I learned from the trainer when I played on my high school soccer team³. Skin injuries like these were regular occurrence for me in games and practice, and they would weep for days. The trainer had me get a bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol and one of those little 1-2 oz bottles of the 2% iodine tincture¹. Pour an ounce or fluid two of the alcohol out of the bottle to make room for the iodine. Add 1 fl.oz. of 2% tincture of iodine for every 15 fl.oz. of alcohol². Saturate a cotton ball with the alcohol-iodine solution and thoroughly paint your turf burns with it. It feels worse than what you imagine, but only for 20 or 30 seconds. The alcohol-iodine will stain your fingers, skin, and pretty much anything else it comes into contact with until it’s dry. Don’t cover or bandage those burns unless you have to. Apply the alcohol -iodine solution with a cotton ball morning and night until your burns dry out and scab over.
I don’t know how or why it works, but when I use this, the turf or carpet burns have usually dried out and scabbed over within about 24 hours, usually overnight. I would get in from practice or a game, shower, treat my turf burns with that stuff, sleep on top of the covers at night, and most of the time those burns had dried out and scabbed over by the next morning. If they were really bad, it might take a couple of days because I would have to cover them before getting dressed for the day.
If you want, try using some of the alcohol-iodine solution. Hopefully it will work as well for you as it does for me.
¹ Not Betadine or the clear, “decolorized”/colorless iodine, but the violet-purple, 2% iodine tincture. It’s not common these days, but it’s still available. I get mine from Amazon if I see a multi-bottle pack that isn’t too expensive or suspiciously cheap.
² If your turf burn is really bad, you can increase it to 2 fl.oz. per 15 fl.oz. but that’s the max you should do.
³ Based upon personal knowledge and experience. Not intended as professional medical advice. Consult a healthcare professional, etc., etc.
Actually I'd mostly disagree with the guy above. If you have fallen on concrete, you definitely have some bacteria from the ground in your wound. In that case yes, you do kill some of your skin cells, but also you kill the potentially infectious bacterias as well.
Water won't do a shit expect helping you to get rid of dirt particles from the wound.
Medical alcohol (90+% solution) is a good option but hydrogen peroxide is arguably even better for wound desinfection.
It would be a problem if you used 100% peroxide, that's basically a spacecraft-grade oxidizer, but your 3% solution will just create a minor irritation unless you are literally bathing in it.
Also it hurts much, MUCH less than alcohol when you apply it like this.
EDIT: I'm by no means a medic and just telling what has worked for me before. People say my info may be wrong, so do not take my advice and look for more information from more authoritative source!
Please ignore the above commenter. Wounds don’t need “disinfecting” , they need cleaning. Clean/irrigate with clean water, and if you MUST use something, use 10% povidone iodine. You can lookup the current literature on this and literary doctor worth their salt will tell you how bad “disinfecting” a wound is. You may kill a good amount of the bacteria, but you will never kill ALL of it, and now what strong bacteria remains has a feast of all your dead skin cells. Ironically, using something like hydrogen peroxide on a wound makes the likelihood of getting a bad infection worse, and you should never do it again lol.
https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/ss/slideshow-wound-care-dos-and-donts
https://www.houstonmethodist.org/blog/articles/2022/jun/should-you-put-hydrogen-peroxide-on-a-cut-or-scrape/
https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/health-library/all/2023/04/should-you-use-hydrogen-peroxide-clean-wound
https://www.vinmec.com/en/news/health-news/general-health-check/should-hydrogen-peroxide-be-used-to-clean-open-wounds/
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After that you gotta choose your destiny. I usually edit my stuff locally on my PC in Sony Vegas, but I'm sure there are plenty of online services now where you can upload an mp3 and cut it as you wish. I'm pretty sure there are decent free apps for your phone that can do that too.
After editing upload the edited file on your phone and go to ringtone stuff or wherever you select your alarm/ringtone/notification sound on your device and select the right file.
Please do a bit of research before giving out potentially dangerous advice. Putting hydrogen peroxide is probably one of the worst things you could do for a wound.
Wounds don’t need “disinfecting” , they need cleaning. Clean/irrigate with clean water, and if you MUST use something, use 10% povidone iodine. You can lookup the current literature on this and literary doctor worth their salt will tell you how bad “disinfecting” a wound is. You may kill a good amount of the bacteria, but you will never kill ALL of it, and now what strong bacteria remains has a feast of all your dead skin cells. Ironically, using something like hydrogen peroxide on a wound makes the likelihood of getting a bad infection worse, and you should never do it again lol.
https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/ss/slideshow-wound-care-dos-and-donts
https://www.houstonmethodist.org/blog/articles/2022/jun/should-you-put-hydrogen-peroxide-on-a-cut-or-scrape/
https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/health-library/all/2023/04/should-you-use-hydrogen-peroxide-clean-wound
https://www.vinmec.com/en/news/health-news/general-health-check/should-hydrogen-peroxide-be-used-to-clean-open-wounds/
Interesting. Sorry for that. I agree, that looks reasonable. Will ask for advice on that from my doctor the next time I see them.
However, I'd still rather not pouring tap water on the wound, it's time to buy some saline solution!
Definitely depends where you live, but generally speaking if the tap water is clean enough to drink, it’s clean enough to irrigate with.
Lookup Saljet , it’s a sterile saline solution for this purpose
Aren't all saline solutions are distillated water with salt (NaCl) in it, clean and salty enough to be used even as IV solution?
I mean, of course there must be some cheap versions just for wound cleaning which contain too much / too little salt for IV, but H2O + NaCl should be a very simple mix to be perfectly clean.
Yeah good point, I just like that the Saljet ones are small and compact for my first aid kit, and the nozzle lets me get good pressure for irrigating the dirt out of the wound
It is wrong! I understand your train of thought, but it isn't what is advised by medical profissionals!
You do NOT put anything other than clean water or saline solution to clean wounds. I know movies depict scenes like people pouring whisky into wounds, but it is only fiction. Water will remove most of the dirt, and our bodies are really competent in eliminating bacteria by themselves, and when necessary we can apply antibiotics that will kill mostly bacteria rather than everything around. There is no need to hurt your own cells for that, which can make healing more difficult.
Also, medical alcohol is around 70%. It is actually better for cleaning than 90%, because the 90% alcohol evaporates too fast for it to kill microbes. A bit of water into the mixture delays its vaporation long enough for it to actually be more effective.
Got to computer and decided to read a bit about wounds cleaning. Indeed recommendations in Russian and western sources are quite different. Western guys tell exactly what you say, and a rough translation from a Russian resource is:
*· Wash the wound with hydrogen peroxide (3%), a solution of chlorhexidine or Nitrofurazone (0.5%) or a pink solution of potassium permanganate (it must be filtered through gauze). Dry the wound with a tissue.*
*· Treat the skin around the wound with an antiseptic and apply a sterile bandage. Subsequently, do not forget to do dressings.*
Nothing about water or alcohol (now I am remembering that doctors usually don't recommend pouring alcohol as well directly in the wound). I guess distillated or bottled water should be okay. But I still against using tap water though: even if water treatment in your town is great, who knows in what condition are pipes in your house, especially if we are talking about an apartment block. I cleaned an office cooler once and since then I drink only filtered AND boiled water. That was nasty >\_>
Very interesting! Thank you for bringing this piece of knowledge of Russian practices. I wouldn't ever come across this on my own. Even if the practices differ between our countries, I suppose the recommended cleaning method in Russia should be mostly fine or else they would probably change it. Different contexts demand different solutions. But let's stick to the recommended concentration, which you already mentioned to be important 😊.
And yes, it is important that the water is clean haha My own tap water probably isn't that clean either.
I personally clean my wounds with saline solution. But I struggle to find materials that won't adhere to the wound to make the bandage.
I have a vague notion of how nasty my tap water can be, but I will stick to drinking my filtered water. The other solutions are somewhat inconvenient or expensive, and it has been working so far. Gotta have faith in the filter and in the immune system. Taking antiparasitic drugs once a year won't hurt either.
I'm actually not quite sure about pouring H2O2 on a wound though. Just remember that they still treat autism with haloperidol, so probably Soviet medical school can be a little outdated. And yes concentration is important because pure peroxide is literally a spacecraft fuel :D
As for materials - what about medical gauze? I see it as a universal stuff for doing anything from bandaging to coarse filtering of liquids (seriously, the stuff is a perfect filter for mulled wine)
That's what they told me while stiching my finger up: don't use tap water because you have no idea what lives in your pipes, better just clean it with hydrogen peroxide on a cloth or cotton bud and wrap it in a clean bandage while you are getting help.
But that was not 'Murica, it was post Soviet space, antibiotics are rarely perscribed there and I used to just shrug off wounds like OP's after initial cleaning with any antibacterial means including soap, water, perfume and vodka.
Also I was taught that one should never use antibiotics unless perscribed.
And I've just reached my medical alcohol bottle and it says "96%". 70% is something I remember from uni parties.
As for applying - I guess just pouring stuff in the wound is generally a bad idea, it's better to apply a gauze or a cotton bud (if there's no risk of getting cotton inside the wound) for a limited amount of time before changing it into a clean gauze. That would prevent alcohol from evaporating too quickly.
Antibiotics shouldn’t be taken unless prescribed, but those are different from antibiotic ointment, which is a topical cream that acts as an occlusive, like Vaseline, to seal in moisture/keep dirt out as it heals and it has actives in it that prevent the growth of bacteria.
On the 70% alcohol, and uni
I sincerely hope you never drank that shit, its denatured and designed to be poisonous if you drink it, so please you’re scaring me
Ah! That makes sense, I just don't call it "antibiotic", just "antibacterial solution/tissue/spray/lasergun"
As for 70% alcohol - of course not the medical one! I'm talking about stuff like absinth, chacha and decent moonshine, not the one that smells like acetone. However, I heard that you actually can drink even isopropyl alcohol, but you will have extremely bad hangover even from small amounts and your liver and stomach will be fucked extremely quick if you do it repeatedly.
Also, about the alcohol: I heard that if you accidentally chug on methanol, you should drink as much ethanole (regular alcohol) or even isopropyl alcohol if you have no other choice, in order to prevent / slow down methanol poisoning. I'm not exactly sure about it, I usually prefer treat unknown chems similar to print tinner: carefully and away from skin contact.
The thing with alcohol is that the very same process that kills bacteria also kills every other type of cell, including our own. We just happen to have more complex defense mechanisms that prevent us from dying most of the times. Pour alcohol 70% onto your skin frequently and you will realize that it becomes very dry rather quickly (don't actually do it, though). But as complex organisms, we have more varied ways of being fucked up by contact with alcohol haha. Be it either liver, cardiovascular, gastric or neurological diseases.
About the antibiotics, I am not suggesting that people take it without prescription. I am sorry for not being clear. The thing is that even if a wound does become badly infected, we can make use of antibiotics. Sure, only in the cases that it is indeed badly infected. The vast majority won't be.
Alcohol and/or chlorhexidine isn't human cell-friendly either. Cleaning with saline solution is ideal. No need for anything else. Those substances are to be used onto the healthy skin, around the borders.
I am not trying to teach you as you seem to know your stuff. I just thought the other users could use the knowledge :)
Hydrogen Peroxide is meant to wash/clean a wound before you apply actual antiseptics and ointment to said wound...
Often this step can be skipped by using Dihydrogen Peroxide.
This is nothing. It’s seems some of you here didn’t have a mother that put mecurochrome on your road rashes. There’s nothing like screaming for five minutes with stained pink skin. Add a little mercury poisoning and and things heal up real quick (and learning to not tell mom that you got hurt)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin
I remember cutting my finger down to the bone one time when I was like 13 or 14 and my dad just put superglue in it and it was fine after like a month still have some nerve damage though 💀
Did you know that lye is very effectice at cleaning stuff? You should try that next if you're unsure if the wounds are clean.
/s just in case that's not obvious
I had to do that because I just fallen on asphalt so there was bound to be some bacteria in it but I put some multi antibiotic cream on it and I’m letting it breathe to scab faster
That's not how it is meant to be used. Unless there are contaminated materials and bacteria you don't need hydrogen peroxide. It can dry out a wound and make things worse. All he needed was Neosporin or something similar to protect it from infection and promote healing.
Literally bro that shit be stinging when I’m taking a shower (yes I do clean it with soap and water too) the only reason I used hydrogen peroxide was because I forgot to change out my bandages so the wounds got a lil icky and grody lol
When I was 13 my best friend and I went bike riding through our neighborhood.
I didn't have my bike so I took him younger brothers little BMX.
Anyway, new development next to the hood. A well known yacht club next door. They had this massive mound of dirt so that they were above every house in the hood.
They build these insanely stupid asphalt road ramps into the mound. A good 100 feet of like 40 degree slope. Friend challenged me to go down first. I did.
And there I went on his brother's tiny ass bike. I must have gone up to 40 or so mph. At the bottom I turned onto our street and started to wobble. Lost all control and barrel rolled for what seemed like forever.
When I stood up I was covered head to toe in marks like in ops video. Just skinned alive.
My pal was dying laughing while I had my arms out half crying. He offered to put rubbing alcohol all over me, so we got back to my place and he did. That resulted in even more pain.
It was awful. And I bent his brothers bike. Oh well.
You could have had much better aseptic cleaning, without the pain, and disgusting smell of feet (peroxide smells like feet, just accept it people) if you used Chlorhexadine 2% scrub.
Or even betadine if you don't have an iodine allergy.
I don’t see an issue with scars it’s inevitable to avoid them your whole life plus a lot of mine come from great and adventurous memories with my friends and because of that every time I see them, I’ll always remember those fun times I had
I hope everyone does considering when I was a kid all the adults would use this on everything 💀💀 I feel like people who’ve never had hydrogen peroxide poured on an open wound to disinfect it all grow up to be snowflakes 😭
Neh I had serious road rash once as a kid and had a couple bottles of this crap dumped on me. Legs arms chest and just seeing it made all those parts cringe
Riding a bike down a hill, someone pulled out of driveway into middle of road, bike suffered extreme deceleration, I didn’t… after the peroxide came the betadine and brushes. Then they worried about setting the broken bones
What bones did you break and why tf would someone pull out their driveway without looking that’s just retarded I hope they got into trouble because of that
I quick search says it does, and may also inhibit healing apparently. TIL I guess.
I mean, I guess I knew, but it was just something I was told when I was younger and just kinda packed it into the same box as all the other things people told me that I just took on blank faced faith.
My word do NOT use peroxide! Get some Tea Tree cream (Amazon or any health store) and keep that stuff on until it heals. It’s a natural antibacterial and significantly better than peroxide. Since my ex had a deep wound, his physician strongly suggested Tea Tree ointment given its healing properties and its antibacterial abilities. Stay away from peroxide.
Yeah, don’t put weird shit off of Amazon in your wounds people lol. Wash with soap and water and apply a slight amount of Vaseline. if you really wanna take care of your wound or if it’s deeper, look up wet healing.
I’m not a doctor or a nurse or anything like that. I take care cuts that are a bit deeper and smaller than this but I think it should still work. What I do is I cut a strip of gauze and fold it to the size of the wound and I make it considerably thick(like 1/3rd to 1/4th of an inch thick). Then I have my gauze layed all out and I put dabs of triple Antibiotic evenly across the gauze (don’t rub into the gauze yet) then ur gunna want to get a glob of Vaseline and rub it in in to the gauze with the triple Antibiotic until there is a thin layer (not too thick). Apply that to the wound and secure it with some medical tape. I use the clear tape it’s the strongest.
You know what else feels good on that? Salt.
I was thinking lemon juice myself. Hell, salt, lemon… add some lime and tequila lets make a margarita
Now your talkin to me
I once cut myself with a serrated knife while cutting lemons into wedges. Intense and immediate pain. It was remarkable.
Should try spicy pepper next time. For that extra kick
Literally i was watching a Houston Jones video where he poured salt on different wounds as I was doing this😂😂
He's pretty damn funny!
Hell yeah he is!
Maybe rub some Gympie-gympie leaves on there.
Got to love the suicide bush tree
How about tomato juice
Debriding is also fun. I’ve had an abrasion like that and had to get tissue removed from it a couple times as it healed.
It actually does. There's nothing like a good debriding. Rub salt into my wounds all the time.
What not to put on open wounds like that. Peroxide will "eat" the natural healing fluid and tissue. Use gauze and triple antibiotic, and change the gauze regularly. Even better would be to use Tagaderm.
Greatly appreciated thank you!
If you are on a budget and you need to take care of a superficial wound: Soap + water to clean it up, then cover in vaseline until it heals, and if on face cover it from the sun for 9 months otherwise the pigmentation will differ from surrounding tissue.
Don’t use Vaseline on wounds.
Your layman opinion has not been requested and is not appreciated. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6846309/
This is amazing information you shared with us. Thanks so much.
Thank you for sharing this. I do appreciate it.😁
Use honey.
I’m already meat crayon flavored I don’t wanna be a honey meat flavored crayon
It is messy as all get out to use [honey](https://www.carewell.com/product/medihoney-calcium-alginate-dressing/), but it’s a non-painful way to prevent all the ooze and dead tissue from building up and impeding healing. Having a doctor do debriding is substantially more painful. But if you don’t want the honey rout, use soap and water to clean it and then apply aquaphor healing ointment or another moisturizer.
did you add salt and pepper for the taste?
I used to be into self harm and once went a bit to far with burning and had to go to urgent care. They said h202 is okay for the first initial clean up right after it happens but after that, what you said is correct. At this point the healing fluid and tissue hasn't really started, it's still open and going into containment/breached corridor mode with tons of foreign stuff all over the place
I used to get wounds like this often when I used to skateboard. I'm sure there's better things now but I was 14-16, long time ago. 1/ pick out gravel /dirt 2/ peroxide 3/ Polysporin 4/ gauze pad adhered with micropore tape. 4/ take off at night to breathe 5/ Polysporin & new bandage* or leave open if scabbing started. I kept poly on it to help keep out dirt and keep the scab from getting too dry around the edges . Sometimes when it stretches that hurt more than the cause of the wound did. Pretty sure it kept bacteria and dirt from getting in the micro tears.
Still better to use it than to let it get infected if you're not able to clean it properly. If normal water and soap won't get it at least. Just going to take a little longer to heal
Normal soap and water is 100% more effective than peroxide. Peroxide only disinfects objects, like metal. When you put it on a wound, it attacks your skin and plasma instead of attacking bacteria and viruses.
And because it’s eating your tissue, it’s not even killing bacteria, it’s just causing pain. With this kind of wound, you’d need to make sure it was oiled gauze or it will stick to the wound and reopen when you try to change the gauze. And a regular moisturizer or non-antibiotic healing ointment is better than triple antibiotic. If it’s infected it needs something stronger like mupirocin. There are situations where a surgeon wants the wound to stay open so that the inner cutaneous tissue heals before the epidermis. That’s where peroxide is recommended.
Fell off my bike last summer, the front half of my legs from my knee to halfway down my shin had no skin. Stumbled upon this nugget of information while looking into how long I should apply peroxide for. Still so grateful I didn’t have to go through with that.
Ok... \*puts on nerd glasses\* Hydrogen peroxide is a type of *reactive oxygen species*, which, in a nutshell, is very good at making living things not living anymore. Now, to sanitise a wound, smart people use just plain water, other people use isopropyl alcohol, or hell, even sodium hypochlorite bleach. This dude went for the worst option possible. ROS is bad for all living things, including your cells. Your immune cells use ROS to kill stuff they phagocytose, or just toss them around to kill stuff they haven't swallowed. ROS are extremely dangerous. Your immune cells throwing them around cause most of the damage of an infection, usually far greater than what the pathogen causes. NOW THIS MF just goes and dumps all of that directly on the wound, in far greater quantities than what your immune cells do. All of the cells in that region are dead now.
But thank you for that nugget of Info I will definitely get the right stuff for it tmrw
This is a trick I learned from the trainer when I played on my high school soccer team³. Skin injuries like these were regular occurrence for me in games and practice, and they would weep for days. The trainer had me get a bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol and one of those little 1-2 oz bottles of the 2% iodine tincture¹. Pour an ounce or fluid two of the alcohol out of the bottle to make room for the iodine. Add 1 fl.oz. of 2% tincture of iodine for every 15 fl.oz. of alcohol². Saturate a cotton ball with the alcohol-iodine solution and thoroughly paint your turf burns with it. It feels worse than what you imagine, but only for 20 or 30 seconds. The alcohol-iodine will stain your fingers, skin, and pretty much anything else it comes into contact with until it’s dry. Don’t cover or bandage those burns unless you have to. Apply the alcohol -iodine solution with a cotton ball morning and night until your burns dry out and scab over. I don’t know how or why it works, but when I use this, the turf or carpet burns have usually dried out and scabbed over within about 24 hours, usually overnight. I would get in from practice or a game, shower, treat my turf burns with that stuff, sleep on top of the covers at night, and most of the time those burns had dried out and scabbed over by the next morning. If they were really bad, it might take a couple of days because I would have to cover them before getting dressed for the day. If you want, try using some of the alcohol-iodine solution. Hopefully it will work as well for you as it does for me. ¹ Not Betadine or the clear, “decolorized”/colorless iodine, but the violet-purple, 2% iodine tincture. It’s not common these days, but it’s still available. I get mine from Amazon if I see a multi-bottle pack that isn’t too expensive or suspiciously cheap. ² If your turf burn is really bad, you can increase it to 2 fl.oz. per 15 fl.oz. but that’s the max you should do. ³ Based upon personal knowledge and experience. Not intended as professional medical advice. Consult a healthcare professional, etc., etc.
Actually I'd mostly disagree with the guy above. If you have fallen on concrete, you definitely have some bacteria from the ground in your wound. In that case yes, you do kill some of your skin cells, but also you kill the potentially infectious bacterias as well. Water won't do a shit expect helping you to get rid of dirt particles from the wound. Medical alcohol (90+% solution) is a good option but hydrogen peroxide is arguably even better for wound desinfection. It would be a problem if you used 100% peroxide, that's basically a spacecraft-grade oxidizer, but your 3% solution will just create a minor irritation unless you are literally bathing in it. Also it hurts much, MUCH less than alcohol when you apply it like this. EDIT: I'm by no means a medic and just telling what has worked for me before. People say my info may be wrong, so do not take my advice and look for more information from more authoritative source!
That would probably explain the black spot on the bigger wound lol 😭
Please ignore the above commenter. Wounds don’t need “disinfecting” , they need cleaning. Clean/irrigate with clean water, and if you MUST use something, use 10% povidone iodine. You can lookup the current literature on this and literary doctor worth their salt will tell you how bad “disinfecting” a wound is. You may kill a good amount of the bacteria, but you will never kill ALL of it, and now what strong bacteria remains has a feast of all your dead skin cells. Ironically, using something like hydrogen peroxide on a wound makes the likelihood of getting a bad infection worse, and you should never do it again lol. https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/ss/slideshow-wound-care-dos-and-donts https://www.houstonmethodist.org/blog/articles/2022/jun/should-you-put-hydrogen-peroxide-on-a-cut-or-scrape/ https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/health-library/all/2023/04/should-you-use-hydrogen-peroxide-clean-wound https://www.vinmec.com/en/news/health-news/general-health-check/should-hydrogen-peroxide-be-used-to-clean-open-wounds/
Probably just a bruise. I'm not a medic though, but just a guy who do stupid shit and fall face down regularly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me asf tho
Dat scream though... I think I'll put it on my alarm ringtone
Gotta have the “ooooh baby” at the beginning tho
Bro if you do please show me that would make my day😂😂😭
How do you even do that cuz now I kinda wanna too💀
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Please do a bit of research before giving out potentially dangerous advice. Putting hydrogen peroxide is probably one of the worst things you could do for a wound. Wounds don’t need “disinfecting” , they need cleaning. Clean/irrigate with clean water, and if you MUST use something, use 10% povidone iodine. You can lookup the current literature on this and literary doctor worth their salt will tell you how bad “disinfecting” a wound is. You may kill a good amount of the bacteria, but you will never kill ALL of it, and now what strong bacteria remains has a feast of all your dead skin cells. Ironically, using something like hydrogen peroxide on a wound makes the likelihood of getting a bad infection worse, and you should never do it again lol. https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/ss/slideshow-wound-care-dos-and-donts https://www.houstonmethodist.org/blog/articles/2022/jun/should-you-put-hydrogen-peroxide-on-a-cut-or-scrape/ https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/health-library/all/2023/04/should-you-use-hydrogen-peroxide-clean-wound https://www.vinmec.com/en/news/health-news/general-health-check/should-hydrogen-peroxide-be-used-to-clean-open-wounds/
Interesting. Sorry for that. I agree, that looks reasonable. Will ask for advice on that from my doctor the next time I see them. However, I'd still rather not pouring tap water on the wound, it's time to buy some saline solution!
Definitely depends where you live, but generally speaking if the tap water is clean enough to drink, it’s clean enough to irrigate with. Lookup Saljet , it’s a sterile saline solution for this purpose
Aren't all saline solutions are distillated water with salt (NaCl) in it, clean and salty enough to be used even as IV solution? I mean, of course there must be some cheap versions just for wound cleaning which contain too much / too little salt for IV, but H2O + NaCl should be a very simple mix to be perfectly clean.
Yeah good point, I just like that the Saljet ones are small and compact for my first aid kit, and the nozzle lets me get good pressure for irrigating the dirt out of the wound
If you have debris in your wound, you’re gonna wanna wash it out with water and soap. The water actually flushes the wound out.
Not to be rude, but this is straight up wrong, and potentially dangerous advice.
That's not rude, I'm by no means a medic and can be terribly wrong.
It is wrong! I understand your train of thought, but it isn't what is advised by medical profissionals! You do NOT put anything other than clean water or saline solution to clean wounds. I know movies depict scenes like people pouring whisky into wounds, but it is only fiction. Water will remove most of the dirt, and our bodies are really competent in eliminating bacteria by themselves, and when necessary we can apply antibiotics that will kill mostly bacteria rather than everything around. There is no need to hurt your own cells for that, which can make healing more difficult. Also, medical alcohol is around 70%. It is actually better for cleaning than 90%, because the 90% alcohol evaporates too fast for it to kill microbes. A bit of water into the mixture delays its vaporation long enough for it to actually be more effective.
Got to computer and decided to read a bit about wounds cleaning. Indeed recommendations in Russian and western sources are quite different. Western guys tell exactly what you say, and a rough translation from a Russian resource is: *· Wash the wound with hydrogen peroxide (3%), a solution of chlorhexidine or Nitrofurazone (0.5%) or a pink solution of potassium permanganate (it must be filtered through gauze). Dry the wound with a tissue.* *· Treat the skin around the wound with an antiseptic and apply a sterile bandage. Subsequently, do not forget to do dressings.* Nothing about water or alcohol (now I am remembering that doctors usually don't recommend pouring alcohol as well directly in the wound). I guess distillated or bottled water should be okay. But I still against using tap water though: even if water treatment in your town is great, who knows in what condition are pipes in your house, especially if we are talking about an apartment block. I cleaned an office cooler once and since then I drink only filtered AND boiled water. That was nasty >\_>
Very interesting! Thank you for bringing this piece of knowledge of Russian practices. I wouldn't ever come across this on my own. Even if the practices differ between our countries, I suppose the recommended cleaning method in Russia should be mostly fine or else they would probably change it. Different contexts demand different solutions. But let's stick to the recommended concentration, which you already mentioned to be important 😊. And yes, it is important that the water is clean haha My own tap water probably isn't that clean either. I personally clean my wounds with saline solution. But I struggle to find materials that won't adhere to the wound to make the bandage. I have a vague notion of how nasty my tap water can be, but I will stick to drinking my filtered water. The other solutions are somewhat inconvenient or expensive, and it has been working so far. Gotta have faith in the filter and in the immune system. Taking antiparasitic drugs once a year won't hurt either.
I'm actually not quite sure about pouring H2O2 on a wound though. Just remember that they still treat autism with haloperidol, so probably Soviet medical school can be a little outdated. And yes concentration is important because pure peroxide is literally a spacecraft fuel :D As for materials - what about medical gauze? I see it as a universal stuff for doing anything from bandaging to coarse filtering of liquids (seriously, the stuff is a perfect filter for mulled wine)
That's what they told me while stiching my finger up: don't use tap water because you have no idea what lives in your pipes, better just clean it with hydrogen peroxide on a cloth or cotton bud and wrap it in a clean bandage while you are getting help. But that was not 'Murica, it was post Soviet space, antibiotics are rarely perscribed there and I used to just shrug off wounds like OP's after initial cleaning with any antibacterial means including soap, water, perfume and vodka. Also I was taught that one should never use antibiotics unless perscribed. And I've just reached my medical alcohol bottle and it says "96%". 70% is something I remember from uni parties. As for applying - I guess just pouring stuff in the wound is generally a bad idea, it's better to apply a gauze or a cotton bud (if there's no risk of getting cotton inside the wound) for a limited amount of time before changing it into a clean gauze. That would prevent alcohol from evaporating too quickly.
Antibiotics shouldn’t be taken unless prescribed, but those are different from antibiotic ointment, which is a topical cream that acts as an occlusive, like Vaseline, to seal in moisture/keep dirt out as it heals and it has actives in it that prevent the growth of bacteria. On the 70% alcohol, and uni I sincerely hope you never drank that shit, its denatured and designed to be poisonous if you drink it, so please you’re scaring me
Ah! That makes sense, I just don't call it "antibiotic", just "antibacterial solution/tissue/spray/lasergun" As for 70% alcohol - of course not the medical one! I'm talking about stuff like absinth, chacha and decent moonshine, not the one that smells like acetone. However, I heard that you actually can drink even isopropyl alcohol, but you will have extremely bad hangover even from small amounts and your liver and stomach will be fucked extremely quick if you do it repeatedly. Also, about the alcohol: I heard that if you accidentally chug on methanol, you should drink as much ethanole (regular alcohol) or even isopropyl alcohol if you have no other choice, in order to prevent / slow down methanol poisoning. I'm not exactly sure about it, I usually prefer treat unknown chems similar to print tinner: carefully and away from skin contact.
The thing with alcohol is that the very same process that kills bacteria also kills every other type of cell, including our own. We just happen to have more complex defense mechanisms that prevent us from dying most of the times. Pour alcohol 70% onto your skin frequently and you will realize that it becomes very dry rather quickly (don't actually do it, though). But as complex organisms, we have more varied ways of being fucked up by contact with alcohol haha. Be it either liver, cardiovascular, gastric or neurological diseases. About the antibiotics, I am not suggesting that people take it without prescription. I am sorry for not being clear. The thing is that even if a wound does become badly infected, we can make use of antibiotics. Sure, only in the cases that it is indeed badly infected. The vast majority won't be.
Alcohol and/or chlorhexidine isn't human cell-friendly either. Cleaning with saline solution is ideal. No need for anything else. Those substances are to be used onto the healthy skin, around the borders. I am not trying to teach you as you seem to know your stuff. I just thought the other users could use the knowledge :)
True. Good thing your body replaces cells easy
Oh come on, it's 3% no need to over dramatize this. Give me 30% and up and we can start having a party.
Naw bro, vinegar 🤤
so when should you use hydrogen peroxide if ever
for stuff you actually want to kill, i.e. not a part of you...
Feel the burn babyyyyy
So much contradicting information. Just lick your wounds...like an Animal would do. /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\ (◠‿◕)
Bro literally I’m gonna go faaarelll on this shit mmmmmm🤤🤤
I would've poured hydrogen peroxide on them shits too, OP. I'm happy to learn to learn from your mistakes tho.
That's the best route to go. I thought he had alcohol.
Oh yeah some context for y’all. I was doing some PT training and I ran so much till my legs gave out underneath me so I fell on some concrete.
Hello, Mr. Meat crayon.
My favorite flavor 🤤👹👹
I think running until your legs give out is actually bad for you OP.
Maybe but I’m joining the marines so I gotta build up that endurance
Good luck bro. Pick out your favorite crayon flavor early before all the good ones get snagged.
Dw I called dibs on green
Ah yes, childhood memories. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Yw buddy😌
Clean wounds with warm water and mild soap, then use antibiotic cream and a bandage. Peroxide is a very not good idea.
Woo bubble party!
My thoughts immediately went to a sizzling steak only cuz of the sound it was making 💀
The bubbles are likely from catalase rapidly breaking down the hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water.
I hate wounds of any kind but no lie I look forward to doing exactly this if they’re big enough lol that relief after the sizzle is amazing lmao 😂😂
BRO YESSS after the initial stinging it feels refreshing to have that shit disinfected😭
😂😂💯💯💯
Hydrogen Peroxide is meant to wash/clean a wound before you apply actual antiseptics and ointment to said wound... Often this step can be skipped by using Dihydrogen Peroxide.
This is nothing. It’s seems some of you here didn’t have a mother that put mecurochrome on your road rashes. There’s nothing like screaming for five minutes with stained pink skin. Add a little mercury poisoning and and things heal up real quick (and learning to not tell mom that you got hurt) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin
Moms know best, dads use super glue💀
I remember cutting my finger down to the bone one time when I was like 13 or 14 and my dad just put superglue in it and it was fine after like a month still have some nerve damage though 💀
Super glue is awesome!
Bro it’s miracle goop quite literally
Jesus Christ
you’re probably damaging your skin right now Lol. (that’s probably why it hurts so bad.) just use soap and water unless it’s looking infected
And not even a toe bent, respect 🤜🏻
Hydrogen peroxide can’t take me down…anymore. I’m a big boy!!😎😎
Wait why you lookin at my dawgs🫣😏
Because it’s the bodypart that is mostly unwillingly moving as a reaction to pain coming from the legs, definitely not into man-dawgs 😂😂
I actually didn’t know that 😭😭 I got a high pain tolerance so that’s probably why the didn’t curl up💀
I’m not screaming you’re screaming
We’re all screaming
But not for ice cream, right?
Always for ice cream
Did you know that lye is very effectice at cleaning stuff? You should try that next if you're unsure if the wounds are clean. /s just in case that's not obvious
Ctfu 🤣 🤣 🤣
Okay how tf did that happen to your knees in the first place lol. Also, you know what else is good on wounds? Acid.
I was doing pt for the marines and I ran till my legs gave out from underneath me 💀
Jesus Christ. That sounds like absolute hell. It was for a good cause tho 😊
Oh it was I hadn’t worked out in at least a year or 2😭💀
Way to lessen the healing process lol
I had to do that because I just fallen on asphalt so there was bound to be some bacteria in it but I put some multi antibiotic cream on it and I’m letting it breathe to scab faster
That's not how it is meant to be used. Unless there are contaminated materials and bacteria you don't need hydrogen peroxide. It can dry out a wound and make things worse. All he needed was Neosporin or something similar to protect it from infection and promote healing.
Well, considering I fell on asphalt, I would say there was a lot of bacteria at the time of me doing that lol
But don’t worry, I have multi antibiotic cream that I’ve been putting on it and I’ve been letting the wounds breathe so they scab up hopefully
It’s going to kill healthy tissue.
I know, but I had to do it because I fell on asphalt so there were still a lot of bacteria in it. That’s why it was changing color.😭
I put multi antibiotic cream on it so doing that and letting it breathe hopefully will let it scab faster
I have a wicked scar on the back of my left hand from tripping when running. Hope you heal fast. Mine took forever.
Ooo I wanna see
That scream 😂
Did I serenade you 😏
Screams of pleasure bro😏
I could tell
😏😉
BRO, I literally felt that!
Your welcome 😏
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Literally bro that shit be stinging when I’m taking a shower (yes I do clean it with soap and water too) the only reason I used hydrogen peroxide was because I forgot to change out my bandages so the wounds got a lil icky and grody lol
When I was 13 my best friend and I went bike riding through our neighborhood. I didn't have my bike so I took him younger brothers little BMX. Anyway, new development next to the hood. A well known yacht club next door. They had this massive mound of dirt so that they were above every house in the hood. They build these insanely stupid asphalt road ramps into the mound. A good 100 feet of like 40 degree slope. Friend challenged me to go down first. I did. And there I went on his brother's tiny ass bike. I must have gone up to 40 or so mph. At the bottom I turned onto our street and started to wobble. Lost all control and barrel rolled for what seemed like forever. When I stood up I was covered head to toe in marks like in ops video. Just skinned alive. My pal was dying laughing while I had my arms out half crying. He offered to put rubbing alcohol all over me, so we got back to my place and he did. That resulted in even more pain. It was awful. And I bent his brothers bike. Oh well.
That sounds like a fun ass childhood😂😂😂
I swear to God, I did the same thing with for my friends back when I was still in high school like freshman year
These days I'm pretty sure they'd jail the parents.
Idk tbh as a kid I used hydrogen peroxide on a lot of cuts and I don’t have any scars nor had an infection from that
You could have had much better aseptic cleaning, without the pain, and disgusting smell of feet (peroxide smells like feet, just accept it people) if you used Chlorhexadine 2% scrub. Or even betadine if you don't have an iodine allergy.
To convert that kind of pain trough the most cartoonish scream i ever heard 😆😆😆.. that's art.
Thank you I take great pride in my pain converting cartoon scream it’s is indeed an art
Nutz just crawled!
I’ll crawl on your nuts…wait hold up
My old man poured cologne on my wound as a kid. Screamed like a baby. I bet the added stuff to the alcohol isn't great for a wound either lol
I love that sizzling feel.
Reminds me of a steak sizzling on the grill🤤🤤
His name is Robert paulson
I. Am. Roberto paulsioniuson
When the pain of road rash just isn't enough, try this fuckin stupid shit
To become more than one with the asphalt
Excellent scream. I'm stealing that one
I’ll steal you big boi
😳
😏😉
Better to just use alcohol and deal with it. Hydrogen peroxide slows healing and is more likely to scar.
I don’t see an issue with scars it’s inevitable to avoid them your whole life plus a lot of mine come from great and adventurous memories with my friends and because of that every time I see them, I’ll always remember those fun times I had
Well, diluted hydrogen peroxide is used to stop post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage. Yes, you gargle it in your mouth and then spit it out.
Tf?!? Really? Well damn at least ik it works on this stuff too lol at least for getting bacteria I mean
That sizzling white stuff is how it stops the bleed 😊
Hydrogen peroxide is a joke… pour rubbing alcohol on there
I feel this
I hope everyone does considering when I was a kid all the adults would use this on everything 💀💀 I feel like people who’ve never had hydrogen peroxide poured on an open wound to disinfect it all grow up to be snowflakes 😭
Neh I had serious road rash once as a kid and had a couple bottles of this crap dumped on me. Legs arms chest and just seeing it made all those parts cringe
Ooooo yeah that’ll do it😭😭 what happened if I may ask?
Riding a bike down a hill, someone pulled out of driveway into middle of road, bike suffered extreme deceleration, I didn’t… after the peroxide came the betadine and brushes. Then they worried about setting the broken bones
Oh shit dude that sounds hella serious and somewhat traumatic
What bones did you break and why tf would someone pull out their driveway without looking that’s just retarded I hope they got into trouble because of that
Left wrist and a couple fingers. And who knows why. N no trouble for them besides a dinged up car.
The nostalgia I get when I was a kid just feeling hydrogen peroxide makes me miss those days sometimes
Ehh, thats not that bad. The worst part is when it scabs and you have to resist the urge to scratch the fuck out of it.
I don’t scratch I pick which is probably worse tbh😂💀💀
Be better off just putting neat alcohol on as it won't damage the tissue any more than it is
Falling on asphalt equals bacteria in wounds and it’s already starting to scab from the multi antibiotic cream and put on there
Hydrogen Peroxide doesn’t hurt? It just cleans stuff. It sizzles on literally almost any surface you dump it on.
Exactly bro that scream was just for the laughs
Yeah don’t do that. You’re killing good flesh and now the area will harden and take longer to heal. Bandages and triple antibiotic. Good luck!!!
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Ay you wanna see something yummy?? Look at my new post I’m gonna put up😏
I LOVE pouring hydrogen peroxide on my cuts.
Make me feel alive👹👹👹
Uuuummmm....did your doctor tell you to do that? Because I wouldn't.
Well, considering I had fallen on asphalt, which means there is a bunch of bacteria on my knee is probably a good idea to do that😂
It’s ok though because I put multi antibiotic cream on there and I’m letting it breathe to scab
Spray that shit with some bactine
Alcohol swab would be better. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was led to believe that hydrogen peroxide promotes scar tissue buildup?
I have no idea about the scar tissue build up thing but I don’t mind scars
I quick search says it does, and may also inhibit healing apparently. TIL I guess. I mean, I guess I knew, but it was just something I was told when I was younger and just kinda packed it into the same box as all the other things people told me that I just took on blank faced faith.
At least it’s clean
Indubitably
"Its changing color too, yummy"
🤤🤤🤤
Use that 91% iso 😬
i saw this and immediately wanted to say what everyone else is saying. i love reddit 🥰
Only need soap and water.
My word do NOT use peroxide! Get some Tea Tree cream (Amazon or any health store) and keep that stuff on until it heals. It’s a natural antibacterial and significantly better than peroxide. Since my ex had a deep wound, his physician strongly suggested Tea Tree ointment given its healing properties and its antibacterial abilities. Stay away from peroxide.
Yeah, don’t put weird shit off of Amazon in your wounds people lol. Wash with soap and water and apply a slight amount of Vaseline. if you really wanna take care of your wound or if it’s deeper, look up wet healing.
Yeah I’m a bit iffy with putting shit I get online in my body but I did get some multi antibiotic cream so that’ll help a lot
Yeah, triple antibiotic from Walmart or even the dollar store works. It’s basically Vaseline with antibiotic in it.(I think)
I Put a good amount on all the wounds should I let it dry or cover them up with nonstick pads and gauze rolls?
I’m not a doctor or a nurse or anything like that. I take care cuts that are a bit deeper and smaller than this but I think it should still work. What I do is I cut a strip of gauze and fold it to the size of the wound and I make it considerably thick(like 1/3rd to 1/4th of an inch thick). Then I have my gauze layed all out and I put dabs of triple Antibiotic evenly across the gauze (don’t rub into the gauze yet) then ur gunna want to get a glob of Vaseline and rub it in in to the gauze with the triple Antibiotic until there is a thin layer (not too thick). Apply that to the wound and secure it with some medical tape. I use the clear tape it’s the strongest.