Never sprinkle salt on the wound.
Today, I saw a piece of news on a popular microblog: A mother sprinkled salt on the wound of her one-year-old daughter who had just been scalded by boiling water because she heard that saline can diminish inflammation. As a result, the doctor gave her a notice of critical illness. According to netizens’ comments, when I was a child, my mother sprinkled salt, vinegar, soy sauce, flour, garlic and sesame oil on my scalds. It sounds like garlic mashed white meat instead of treating scalds. There are also people who apply toothpaste and soap, which are all unreliable methods for scalding. Why can’t salt be sprinkled? People will say that hospitals often use saline to clean wounds? But the hospital Read More …