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 …

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 …

The wound treatment seems simple, and if you are not careful, you will get into big trouble.

There are many contacts with patients in the hospital, and many strange things are really encountered. For example, when I was practicing in the wound center of the hospital (a place where people change dressings), I met an old lady from a remote mountainous area. As soon as she entered the clinic, a stench came on her face. Looking back, the dried left lower limb grew a lump of [cauliflower]-a festering malignant tumor. Further inquiries about the medical history, the original old lady two years ago accidentally scalded the left calf, but has not taken it seriously, intermittently using folk prescriptions to apply external application to herself. For more than two years, the wound has not healed, repeated suppuration and Read More …