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A wound exposed to air will heal quickly, is it true...If yes why and why don't we just expose our wounds...

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A wound exposed to air will heal quickly, is it true...If yes why and why don't we just expose our wounds to air and tie arond bandages

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  1. It depends on environment and your body. Some people heal faster with wounds open because they have a certain bacteria in their body that keeps a wound moist and sweating in a bandage.That Bacteria grows inside a closed bandage and creates infection. In that instance the air it is exposed to cannot have bacteria flying around in it or they won't heal faster.

    Otherwise I agree that in any normal person a wound heals faster when it is covered with med applied. A study was done, and that's why Band aid brand advertises it. Not that you can believe what you see on commercials, but that one is actually true.


  2. There was a research study 6-8 years ago that showed that bandaged wounds heal faster than wounds open to the air.  It sunk the old addage that wouldns heal faster left open.

  3. Not true. Exposed wounds get air born infection

  4. Air can assist in forming scabs, but that can only happen if the clotted blood is not pushed away by the blood flow. If the wound is in an artery or major vein, the blood pushing up to the wound will push the clotted blood out of the way, preventing scabs from forming and allowing pathogens to enter the wound. Applying a bandage will prevent blood from pushing out of the wound by providing back pressure, and it protects the wound from infection by preventing the entry of pathogens.

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