do cuts heal faster when exposed to air than with a band aid?
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do a little of both.  try neosporin and a bandaid during the day and air it out at night.  you dont want it to stay too moist, but if you let it dry out it causes scaring
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If you have an injury, it is recommended that you apply ice for the first 48 hours.  if you have torn something, you may it still may be bleeding inside the muscle. After that, heat.\n\nIf you are just sore from overuse, heat.
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Icing must be done in the first thirty minutes or so after the over-use. It is best done by wrapping an ice bag in a towel and taping it over the injured wrist. You can also use a ziploc bag, but again use a towel or some other kind of cloth to keep from getting the area too cold. That can be very painful and cause other kinds of injury.\n\nThe idea behind icing and the timing for using it is that your body rapidly deploys lymph from your circulatory system into the spaces between the cells of your wrist to enrich its supply of white blood cells and to create a positive pressure in the tissue that isolates it from the rest of the body. Cold shrinks capillaries and greatly slows the leakage of lymph into the interstial spaces. By doing this, swelling is greatly reduced and inflammation is less likely to occur. If you wait too long (swelling is already present) then you use heat to increase the circulation into the area and extract the extra fluid from the tissue spaces. \n\nThere are no negative side-effects if done correctly. Healing will be much faster. I hope your specialist also told you that over-use to the point of needing ice that continues for a long time can lead to the other things that you don't have now. You may need to work on technique so that you are creating less shock and trauma to your wrists. \n\nI am a guitar player and sometimes get the kind of problem you are describing in my forearms. Ice for 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off for an hour or so almost always does the trick so that I can play again the next day.
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Neosporin and a band aid.
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I assume we're talking about a minor burn and not a 3rd degree, right?\n\nCold running water for 10 minutes or until it stops hurting.\n\nI'm going to disagree with above poster about letting it "breathe".  If I were you, I'd keep anti-biotic cream on it and keep it bandaged.  Infection equals scaring.
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Go to the store and get blister pads.  They really work and shorten the healing time.
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Neosporin.\n\nAnd make sure you're not moving the skin around it - you could be ripping it open again again while it's trying to heal.
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Do you have any white t-shirts? or even white undergarments, cloth? Don't use papertowels or anything that will shred like tissue. Cut the white cloth into strips and wrap the toe snugly (not tight). Elevate the leg on a couple of pillows to slow the bleeding until morning. Your open wound will not rot. Just make sure to keep it clean.
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Topical Treatment: Ice and vinegar applied to the affected areas can speed healing. Another helpful topical treatment is to apply the gel from a freshly cut aloe vera leaf.
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Shaving your legs will give you an advantage if you crash and burn.  The healing time for road rash is less if the hair is not matted into the wound.  As far as aerodynamic improvement unless you are as wooly as big foot it is minimal.
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No. Only if your skin is broken and the germs are absorbed in the exposed skin cells surrounding the abrasion. Very miniscule risk.
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It depends on what body part you need to bandage. There's really an unlimited number of ways you can do this. As we say in EMS, improvise, improvise, improvise. \nThe most important thing to remember is, if you are tryng to control bleeding, make the knot over the wound, tight, but not circulation restricting. If you are using this to splint a broken bone, never tie the knot over the break. \n\nBelow is a website that has some pretty good step-by-step directions for a number of different body parts to be bandaged.\n\nGood luck!
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sterilize a needle with rubbing alcohol pop it if you can stand it pull back just a little of the skin and put some neosporin anti scar on it.. the anti scar works faster at repairing skin tissue and doesn't burn like liquid bandage
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let your body heal, don't do any exercise until your doctor gives you the okay.  If you work out and rip a suture you can put yourself in a world of pain and trouble.  Open wounds get infected real fast, they can lead to infection and depending on what was operated on you could permanently damage muscle.
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NO, it is NOT an infection.  With a scrape, a lot of times you get that oozing if you immediately coat it with something as you did. The oozing is plasma. It's a part of your blood. Your blood is trying to get white cells there to heal things up. Sounds like you exposed some nerve endings as well.  All completely normal.\n\nThe semi white film is actually skin cells that have stayed wet. The wound is trying to heal, the the environment is too wet.\n\nLeave the bandages and Neosporin off, let it air dry without cloth on it at all if you can, and just wear normal clothing as always.It will form the scab as it dries and heal as scrapes normally do.\n\nNeosporin is not a bad first response; even your doctor will tell you so, especially if you could have gotten fabric fibers, dirt, other crap from the area you fell on it.  But now it's time to let it dry out and heal.
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cover with a bandage, and neosporin.  It will heal in about 4 days
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It depends on whether it is just stretched or if it's partially or wholly torn, but if the severity of the injury and the ability to keep the injured body part immoble for a period is equal, the healing time would also be more or less the same.