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Can alcholol delay healing in pilonidal wound healing?
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Possibly: Large amounts of alcohol can cause nutritional deficiencies or cause liver failure which both can affect normal wound healing.
Answered 5/3/2017
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EtOH: Alcohol damages the cells that you body secretes into the wound to heal. Therefore it can retard healing.
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Which alcohol.: Are you speaking of iso-propyl alcohol (the kind you apply to skin) or ethyl alcohol (the kind you drink) ?
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