I fell down, scraped my knee, and it huuuuurtssss

@Northwest 👆👆👆

@Northwest Witch Hazel is far more gentle and just as effective, Iso will send her through the roof.

@Northwest This is exactly what I did. Thank you!

@deciblues Good! Just remember, don't listen to Southeast--he's just the complete opposite of @Northwest...! 😉🤣

@Northwest the alcohol would hurt like hell, and offer no more than washing with soap and water. I am a physician.

@samueltyler2 I am a Physicist and my daughter is starting med school in a few weeks 😭

Yes, I know it hurts. I usually wash with an anti-bacterial soap, dry, and the dab the wound using a medical cotton ball, dipping in alcohol, and take the temporary pain, then dry it off and apply Neosporin. Whenever I skip Neosporin, it takes longer to heal and it causes panful infections.

@Northwest congratulations, Neosporin is a mixed antibiotic ointment, generally we do not use it. It can cause sensitization, aka future allergies, to its components.

@Northwest Sure you are, otherwise you would have known NOT to put Iso on an open scrape like that, faker.

BTW, it's physician, NOT physicist 🙄

@samueltyler2 Are you talking about potential dermatitis?

@Northwest no, I am talking about setting up a potential for a reaction to any of the components in the future.

@samueltyler2


Exactly.

This is the basis of all allergies.

@SomeMichGuy do you really enjoy insulting someone? There is no history that i can see.

I will be a gentleman and not attack back. I spent 50 years practicing medicine, what are your credentials?

@SomeMichGuy dermal application represents a far more likely sensitization than any other application.

The op seemed to actually be asking for advice. I gave good advice. The rest of you can you know what!

@samueltyler2 I am pointing out that you are not following scientific medicine if you ignore the patient's history.

Saying that exposure MIGHT trigger a latent allergy is correct, but that's true across the board.

So DO you advise people NOT to eat because they MIGHT get a food allergy? Of course not!

Why are you not able to be an actual gentleman and admit that you threw out medical advice which was not scientific in that it ignored the patient history?

And please don't think that only medical doctors are aware of germ theory, etc. And not every patient won't read and figure out when there is a mistake made by a physician.

@SomeMichGuy I will not respond to you the way you responded to me. I have no idea why you are reacting the way you are. I hope this is not your usual attraction. Before giving medical advice, go to medical school and learn first.

Have a great day.

@samueltyler2 I don't know how this conversation branched out, or perhaps I do, when the dimwit portlander jumped in.

I gave a light weight response, after I looked at the picture, showing a very minor, small scrape.

I am not a Physician, but Neosporin is an over the counter ointment, and while it's not always necessary, when immediately after the scrape happens, and not a day or two later, washing with an anti bacterial soap, and keeping it clean does the trick, I pointed out what I do for the former, given that this is a minor scrape, not a deep cut, no bleeding is involved (from a deep cut), it is a severe burn. If any of the latter present, get to an ER, but that's not the case.

Thank you for the medical advice.

@Northwest You are welcome. I try to help people.

As I said, maybe he had a bad day.

@Northwest It's when you advised iso for an open scrape, NO person within any medical field would recommend doing that, they would advise witch hazel or H202. Dimwit? LOL My Dad was an RN, my late ex fiancee's older brother was an RN, AND my sister in law is an RN, constant contunual training in first aid, aed, and cpr, while I was a licensed armed security officer, and along with my own medical issues, I am very well trained and well versed in first aid. It is NOT a burn, those are formed from heat and high friction, which a scrape is not, if it feels warm or hot, that's from infection.

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Look man, it's really hard to tell if you're right in the head. And if you're not, then my apologies, but you need to get some help. And not the kind you can fix by peeing on.

@Northwest I think the Friends episode about that gave a whole group of ppl the wrong notion.