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What can it mean if your body is slow to heal from cuts, minor skin infections etc?
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Many possible reason: Could lots of explanations-mostly systemic diseases that explain poor healing-diabetes, poor blood flow to name two.
Answered 6/30/2013
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Many things: Different areas of the body heal at different rates. Slow healing can be due to malnutrition, or medical conditions such as diabetes. If you think you have slow healing, you should go to your family doctor for evaluation with the appropriate lab studies.
Answered 7/6/2017
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