Effective Wound Care: A Step-by-Step Guide to Healing

You can treat most minor wounds yourself. Keeping a wound clean and applying an antibiotic ointment will help it heal quickly and without problems.

Things You'll Need

• Saline wound wash
• Triple antibiotic ointment
• Adhesive bandages
• Liquid bandage

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Instructions

• 1

  Rinse the wound thoroughly with saline wound wash.

• 2

  If the wound is still raw, leave it exposed to the air long enough to dry and for a scab to begin to form.

• 3

  Apply triple antibiotic ointment to the wound. Be careful not to get it on the area around the wound, as that would keep a bandage from sticking.

• 4

  Apply an adhesive bandage large enough so the non-sticky pad covers the entire wound. If the bandage adheres to the actual wound, you will irritate the wound when you remove it.

• 5

  Repeat this process daily.