Contest Alert: Treating Our Wounds

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Good day everyone, hope you had a wonderful day, I am excited to participate in this community contest organized by @sahmie. Thank you sir for this wonderful contest and also thanks to everyone of you that took time to read my content.

There should be other ways which other people may know on how they can prevent infection when they are treating a wound, but here is my own way of preventing infection in a wound; by cleaning and disinfecting the wound and the surrounding of the wound area.

This process will help the wound to be safe from infection like bacteria etc, not just that but as well help it to get heal very fast.

There are also ways of keeping the wound clean and disinfected;

• By cleaning the wound with mild soap and water. Regularly use mild soap and sterile water to clean the surface area, at least three times a day

• Disinfecting the wound with an antimicrobial agent. By so doing, it will keep the wound at a point of healing faster

• Keeping the surface area of the wound dry. With the help of clean and dry towel, you can just dry up the wound if it drops water.

By so doing this, it will help to prevent infection like bacteria and other contaminants that can cause infection in our wound and keep it safe.

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Keeping wounds clean and disinfected before applying any medication is very important to the wellbeing of the patient.

Here are some simple steps to properly keep wound clean before applying medication or bandage:

• Washing of hands with soap and water to avoid transferring of bacteria to the wound

• Rinsing the wound with saline or sterile water to remove or kill already existing bacteria from the wound

• Cleaning it up with towel as I have mentioned this before, before applying any bandage or further medication

Keeping wound moist during the early stages of healing is important with the following reasons below:

• Decreases pain; keeping wound moist during the early stages of healing helps to reduce the rate of pains from the wound.

• Preventing of Infection: with the help of moist wound, it can prevent infections like bacteria from attacking the wound

• Reduce the healing duration: moist wound helps to reduce the time of when the wound should be heal, it makes a wound to get heal faster.

• Promotion of cell growth: moisture of wound is another way for the cell metabolism to grow and enhance the formation of new tissue

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Here are some signs of possible infection in a wound, which they actually need quick action before it will get out off hands:

• A bad odour from the wound, shows that there are some infection in a particular wound and it need a quick response

• Experiencing more excessive pain at the site of the wound

• Swelling at the site of the wound also shows that there is infection

• Discharge from the wound, like pus coming out from the wound

• Increased in fluid leaking from the site of the wound

There are some procedure to be taken when this signs listed above is noticed in a wound.

• First to to be done is, consulting a healthcare professional

• Try keep the wound clean and dry

• Apply medications, maybe described by the healthcare professional or personally

• Take antibiotics as part of your medications to help kill or remove the infection

• Using of clean sterile water or saline solution
  All this are some simple procedures to be taken to help in wounds where there is infection

Here are some simple tips to take in consideration before treating a wound personally at home:

• When the wound is smaller in size, it can be treated at home

• When there are no signs of infection, it can be treated at home

• When the wound is not exposed to bones, nerves or tendons it can be treated at home

• When there is no severe bleeding, it can be treated at home

Here are some simple tips to take in consideration that attract the medical attention:

• Large size of wound

• Wound that bleed beyond personal control

• Wound that are so painful or difficult to relief the patient

• Wounds that are exposed bones or nerves

• When there is a notice of infection

This are some of the signs we will not and have to rush to the medical professional for proper treatment.

Hope you find this process helpful?
Thanks for reading.

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