Here are some ...: For average healthy persons, a minor scratch or cut will heal itself as long as keeping the affected area as clean and dry as possible. Topical agent may be helpful right after injury; hours later, its effect is doubtful because any implanted germs are already invading into the body which exerts its humoral immune defense to fend off them. So, topical use for such is more for political correctness
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