Wait until the bleeding stops, clean dirty wounds with lukewarm tap water (or even mineral water) without touching them with your finger.
You can disinfect with calendula essence (mix 1:5 with warm water) or a disinfectant. Then cover the wound aseptically with a quick wound dressing (“plaster“) or a gauze compress, which you fasten with a sticking plaster.
Do not forget to change the dressing 1 to 2 times a day, checking whether the wound heals or becomes inflamed – indications are redness, warming, swelling and pain in the area of the wound.
By the way, against the fright you can take once 3-5 drops of Rescue-Remedy (Bach flowers) or give to your child; to support the healing, the homeopathic Arnica D12 (in the 1st hour 5 globules every 10 minutes, then hourly).
Tips for wound care
- Abrasions: If small stones, sand or small wood splinters can not be rinsed out with the water, take a pair of tweezers to help. Homeopathically helps Calendula D12 (5 globules 2-stdl., from the 2nd day 3 times daily).
- Laceration, bruise, laceration: small wounds (up to about ½ centimeter ) you can take care of yourself. Sometimes, squeezing helps to stop the bleeding faster. Dab the wound with a clean cloth and bring the wound edges together without tension using staple plasters. Homeopathically helps Calendula D12 (5 globules 2-stdl., from the 2nd day 3 times daily).
- A small bite wound you can clean with a soap solution (curd soap), then cover sterile – at the slightest sign of inflammation, you should go to the doctor (for larger or deeper bite wounds anyway). Homeopathically helps Ledum D12 (5 globules 2-stdl., from the 2nd day 3 times daily).
- Cuts: Smaller, clean cuts you care the same way; for larger or those that are associated with movement restrictions, for example, the finger, off to the doctor. Homeopathically helps Staphisagria D12 (5 globules 2-stdl., from the 2nd day 3 times daily).
- Splinter, sting: pull it out with pointed tweezers, sometimes this works better if you soak the affected part of the body in a warm soapy bath for fifteen minutes beforehand. Another tip: apply traction ointment and plaster on it – try again the next day. If none of this helps, the doctor will have to take care of it. Homeopathically helps Silicea D12 (5 globules 2 times a day).
Attention: regardless of whether an injury is large or small – a tetanus (lockjaw) is always possible. Therefore, vaccination against this infection is important for children and adults! So don’t forget to get a booster shot. And see the doctor if you are not sure about your current protection status.
What should be handy in a medicine cabinet
- Means for wound disinfection
- Wound healing ointment, gel against burns (usually available in combination against insect bites).
- Cooling pad (keep in the refrigerator)
- Assortment of dressing material: sterile compresses, gauze bandages, wound healing dressing (plaster), fixation plaster, disposable gloves, elastic bandages, triangular cloth for immobilization of joints.
- Small scissors, tweezers to remove foreign bodies.
