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What can be used to heal a bad scrape?
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Neosporin: Asny good antibiotic ointment can be used to cover with gauze until the wound is dry and no longer weaping. When dry it can be treated with "mederma" to minimize the scar formation.
Answered 10/18/2012
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Superfast healing: The real question is what not to do that slows down healing. Avoid using alcohol, peroxide, hibiclens, betadine, and bleach solutions. Inflammation ( red, hot, swollen, tender) is important to healing so anti-inflammatories (motrin, advil) are bad. Cover the area with a clean dressing changed every other day and protected from trauma. Antibiotics do not help healing unless it is truly infected.
Answered 6/9/2013
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