hydrogen peroxide bleached my skin temporarily...

[HaxorNubcake]

I had a couple small scrapes on my upper body and I wiped them with 3% drug-store hydrogen peroxide. Then I looked in the mirror and noticed that the areas that I wiped were bleached, several shades lighter than the surrounding tanned area.

Then I looked on the internet about hydrogen peroxide for a few minutes (~10), went back, and the skin is just about the same color as it normally is.

Just FYI: Hydrogen Peroxide appears to temporarily bleach skin

 

[rockyct]

I think you just shifted your blood away from the scrape.

 

[Blazin Trav]

sounds normal and perfectly harmless to me.

 

[BudAshes]

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav
sounds normal and perfectly harmless to me.

Cme on, don't coddle him, he's definitely going to die.

 

[moomoo40moo]

Recent publications advise against two currently marketed antiseptics. The National Safety Council's 1996 First Aid Pocket Guide states: "DO NOT use hydrogen peroxide. It does not kill bacteria, and it adversely affects capillary blood flow and wound healing." And the Handbook on Nonprescription Drugs states ethyl alcohol "is not a desirable wound antiseptic because it irritates already damaged tissue. The coagulum [crust] formed may, in fact, protect the bacteria."

From here... http://www.fda.gov/FDAC/features/496_cuts.html

Kind of recently heard about this...

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: moomoo40moo

Recent publications advise against two currently marketed antiseptics. The National Safety Council's 1996 First Aid Pocket Guide states: "DO NOT use hydrogen peroxide. It does not kill bacteria, and it adversely affects capillary blood flow and wound healing." And the Handbook on Nonprescription Drugs states ethyl alcohol "is not a desirable wound antiseptic because it irritates already damaged tissue. The coagulum [crust] formed may, in fact, protect the bacteria."

From here... http://www.fda.gov/FDAC/features/496_cuts.html

Kind of recently heard about this...

Odd.

 

[Beev]

I pour isopropyl alcohol on my wounds.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Sraaz
I pour isopropyl alcohol on my wounds.

hurts like a bitch and I think it makes infections worse.

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: dighn
hurts like a bitch

Yup

Originally posted by: dighn
and I think it makes infections worse.

srsly?

Edit: From wikipedia

"Isopropyl rubbing alcohol is poisonous and can cause permanent disabling illness or death if consumed."

I don't chug it...

Says it can also cause "defatting" of the skin if it's used a ton.

"Defatting can also describe prolonged exposure of human skin to alcohols, detergents, chemical solvents and motor oil caused by the chemical transformation of the oils (lipids) which constitute the cell membranes. Defatting increases the possibility of irritant contact dermatitis."

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Sraaz

Originally posted by: dighn
and I think it makes infections worse.

srsly?

I think so from experience. antibiotics is the proper thing to use.

 

[UncleWai]

what to be like Mike?

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: moomoo40moo

Recent publications advise against two currently marketed antiseptics. The National Safety Council's 1996 First Aid Pocket Guide states: "DO NOT use hydrogen peroxide. It does not kill bacteria, and it adversely affects capillary blood flow and wound healing." And the Handbook on Nonprescription Drugs states ethyl alcohol "is not a desirable wound antiseptic because it irritates already damaged tissue. The coagulum [crust] formed may, in fact, protect the bacteria."

From here... http://www.fda.gov/FDAC/features/496_cuts.html

Kind of recently heard about this...

I realize you're linking a FDA site, but I don't quite believe that. Many years ago I had a leg lengthened (actually 1996 now that I think about it), and that meant having 6 pins sticking out of my leg for 6 months. What did the hospital tell me to use to keep the openings clean? Hydrogen peroxide. It worked great. I was the first person my doc did the procedure on that never got an infection.

 

[interchange]

Originally posted by: dighn
I think so from experience. antibiotics is the proper thing to use.

Soap and water is the proper thing to use. Clean out the wound and dress it. Let your own body do its job. Don't promote antibiotic resistant bacteria by silly overuse of antibiotics.