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To: Crocodile who wrote (66102)	12/6/2004 1:00:30 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

Soaking in Epsom salts is something I do, too. If it's something you can put into a tub, like a foot or hand or elbow or knee, I have a plastic tub I use to handwash scarves and sweaters that I scrub out with scouring powder, and then rinse and soak for an hour with a bleach solution, and then rinse again, and put an Epsom salt solution to soak a wound that has "proud flesh" (puffy and red and not healed completely, but not fresh, either). Not too strong a solution, that's irritating. I really messed up my ankle a couple of years ago. First, I dropped a brand new Cuisinart blade on it, and lacerated a wound, a big flap about 2 inches by 3 inches and 1/4 inch deep. My husband came home and took me to the HMO, but they were too busy to give me a Dr. so a nurse stitched me up. Well, first she dropped the things on the floor, and I assumed that she would start all over but she kept going. And I didn't object so let her sew me up. I was sort of in shock due to the pain and the bleeding. But later concern about lack of sterile technique freaked me out so I took out the stitches that night, to irrigate with sterile saline, hydrogen peroxide, and Betadine, assuming the Dr. would do it all over, but the Dr. said she could not sew me back after I removed the stitches, I would have to let it granulate and heal from within. And it took almost 2 MONTHS. It would almost heal and then it would split open if I walked more than a tiny bit, because it was right on the bony part of the ankle and was so long. I learned a lot about wound care. There are new bandages that have a gel in them that keep the wound edges moist, and I would also rub with a cream I made out of extra virgin olive oil, beeswax and propolis from my own beehives and Vitamin E. The moist bandages are not cheap, either. This year I found out I have Type 2 diabetes, which may explain why it took longer to heal. Anyway, at our house the routine for a wound is rinse it in running water, press with sterile cotton until it quits bleeding, irrigate with hydrogen peroxide and then Betadine. And if it's a scrape, maybe Triple ointment. Personally I only use Triple ointment if it starts to get infected. Betadine became a MUST after I watched a case where a man lost his arm due to an infection to gas gangrene, and the Dr. testified that if they had put Betadine it probably would have saved the arm. My sister, a nurse, uses Icthammol ointment, which is a "drawing salve", on wounds that are slow to heal and get puffy.