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Old 03-11-2013, 11:52 PM   #106
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Bump for a question.

Have a friend who is recovering from some surgery and they are using peroxide for cleansing. We were vehemently warned off of that for wound care, by more than one of my daughter's docs, that it is actually bad for wound care (breaks down skin? can't remember exactly what they said) so we have never used it. Said post-surgical friend's incisions keep opening up and I wonder it might be helped along by the peroxide use.

Anything to that, that you've heard of - the peroxide skin issues?
Sorry, missed this. Came to bump for an article and came across this. Peroxide oxygenates a wound and also destroys immune cells in the wound helping to fight off infection. It is really on useful if you have no access to sterile water. Not a good idea anyways in my opinion.
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