Traumatic injuries in daily life are inevitable. When dealing with wounds, many people are very entangled in whether the wounds should be "bandaged" or "open". So what method should be used?
The so-called "open" is actually "exposure therapy". Because the wound also needs to be breathable, open is conducive to the air to take away the liquid from the wound, promote the rapid air drying of the wound, and when the scab skin naturally falls off, the wound will heal.
However, "exposure therapy" is only suitable for shallow small wounds. For large areas of abrasions, severe burns or burns, you must not be so hasty, otherwise it will cause wound ulcers to become inflamed.
Continuous exudative wounds can quickly scab if they take "exposure therapy", but this is only the illusion of "healing" of the wound, although it seems to have been crusted, but in fact, there is pus and exudate under the blood scab, these pus hinder the growth of granulation tissue, resulting in the wound can not heal.
Clinical Medicine shows that "bandaging therapy" is an effective healing method to deal with severe trauma. First, debridement and disinfection of the wound to remove necrotic tissue and blood scab, then apply special repair ointment such as scald ointment and raw muscle cream, and finally bandage with gauze.
Traditional exposure therapy cannot allow drugs to act on the surface of the wound for a long time, and dressing therapy can not only achieve long-term antibacterial and disinfection effects, but also form a protective barrier to isolate external pathogens, in a good moist healing environment, promote the rapid growth of granulation tissue, and gradually grow muscle tensioned skin until complete healing.
Many patients are afraid that the wound will be "covered up" after being coated with ointment drugs, but in fact this is a wrong cognition. Ointment can play a certain lubricating effect to avoid the wound and gauze adhesion together, causes unbearable pain when removing gauze.
Secondly, the gauze itself has breathability and hygroscopicity, can keep the wound air unblocked, and absorb the wound exudate and secretion of sweat, guide the normal discharge of pus, rather than silt in the wound.
Of course, the wound should not be too tight, especially in the selection of dressings, if the use of too dense dressings, may cause poor internal drainage of the wound, the surrounding skin is overheated, not only does it not promote healing, but it will aggravate the condition.
In daily treatment of wound repair problems, simple small wounds do not need to be bandaged. Large, deep wounds or more complex wounds must be coated with medicine and gauze, this will not cause bacteria invasion and ulcers.
