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What does salt on wounds do?
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BAD IDEA!!: The real question is what not to do that slows down healing. Avoid using alcohol, peroxide, hibiclens, betadine, salt, 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 unless it is truly infec.
Answered 8/31/2013
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