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Years ago, I learned from all kinds of sources that wounds heal much faster when covered with a bandaid, creating a kind of moist environment, and it reduces scarring.

On Friday, surgeon removed steri strips and didn't say anything more, but I've been fretting about the whole moist wound thing for the past few days. This morning, I decided to apply neosporin and cover the incisions with band aids. Everything is closed except the drain site, which is fairly ooky.

Does anyone have any knowledge about this?

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i hate the word moist.

This made me L-O-L

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My doc specifically told me no neosporin or ointment (and other word with ick-factor), but as you'll quickly learn on here, every doc is different

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I had to do a moist wound care on my ankle. But that was only for them to see if they would have to cut out the yuck post the wound line. It hurt like a bat to the knee.

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This made me L-O-L

It totally creeps my husband out!

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I used to be a Wound Consultant. Moist wound Healinh generally refers to secondary healing eg. When a wound is open and needs to granulate and heal from the base up. Primary wound closure is when something us drawn back together and held there with stitches , staples or steri strips. If you skin is joined and there us no raw flesh open then u do not need to worry. Neoaporin won't help and prolonged used can lead to bugs getting resistance. Covering a stores me with something like hospital paper tape eg. Micropore has been shown to reduce tension on the suture line resulting in less scat tissue being laid down. Hope this helps. Band aids are nasty!!!

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Thank you so much, olive!

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