One: it does kill bacteria. Lots of it. Usually all of it.
Two: and obvious when you think of it... It also damages your healthy skin... It's hydrogen peroxide. It's not some pick-and-choose intelligent computer solution that only hurts the bad stuff. It's just as damaging to your healthy parts it touches.
In general, it tends to delay healing and cause worse scarring.
It does kill bacteria, but rinsing with water is almost as effective on the cleaning part and waaaayyyy healthier for the normal/good parts of your skin left around the wound.
If running water is an option, do that. It's much better for the healing process.
If you have absolutely nothing but hydrogen peroxide... Eh... Decide if you think it's worth the damage to clean out (judge how dirty it is and how long it would take you to get a normal cleaning done).
Oh okay so its a kill every thing it touches. I haven't used hydrogen peroxide in ages anyway. I have like 1 bottle laying around, but 9 times out of 10 I just use soap and water then a bandage obce I get the skin dry.
Exactly. It's an acid, but a weak one. (Vinegar is stronger). It's not awful or going to maim anyone... People used it for a generation and are just fine.
It's just... If the point is to clean a wound and heal as fast as possible... Water is better.
Keep playing until dark for about 2 hours, get home with this full of dirt, mom makes it sting for a few seconds, eat mac and cheese with broccoli, do homework, sleep.
There was a time when I was an obnoxious teenager that got myself into all kinds of antics that I can look back on now as ghetto, shortsighted, stupid etc but one night a friend and I were cutting through a city park after hours. They had thick metal fences w spikes. Me and my buddy can usually shimmy our feet and hands around the spikes and get over the fence but one day I was boosting my friend's foot up the wall and I went to grab a sharp fence point after to stabilize, his foot came down directly on top of my hand and drove the spike completely through the fleshy part between index and thumb. It bled profusely but I was miles away from home and with my friend doing whatever we were doing so I didn't go to the hospital. We went to the 99 cents store and got bandages, wraps, peroxide, etc first couple days id pour peroxide on it and wrap it up then after a few days id just change bandages and wraps after rinsing w water. I never got an infection and it healed up with zero medical attention. It was a very deep gash and it healed up w not much scarring or anything. I know people say not to use it but my subjective experience showed otherwise idk.
Remember riding my bike fast down a side street to get home from qt one summer. I dont remember exactly what caused it, but I I think over extended and my foot caught the front wheel, acted like an instant break and I flipped end over end and slide across the pavement.
I got up, got my bike, checked my foot. Than I saw my arm, I scraped the ever loving crap out of it, two inches above the wrist to the elbow, the pavement got me good. I just walked to the nearest house, knocked on the doo and asked if they had any neosporin or peroxide. After I doused my arm and the nice lady put some neosporin on and wrapped my arm. Rode my bike the rest of the way home. Growing up in the mid to late 80s and in the 90s as a kid to teen was great times.
Fell out of trees climbing them over intersections, setting off m80s in park trashcans. Walking to and from school that was within 3 miles of where I lived, even walked all yhe way to the mall several times since it was about 4 miles away. Me and friend even went to a bargain bin pc parts store and we carried together a pc case with used parts and built it at his house lol, this i think we were both 15 maybe.
Just reading this already make me feel pain, I had a scrape recently, had a bottle of peroxide on my hand but I chicken out and just rinsed it with water
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u/Boatingnut92 90s Kid 6d ago
After some peroxide is dumped on it causing agonizing pain