Wound care

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How often do you or your family members happen to cut themselves some way? I was reading some material from a past nursing practitioner conference about wound care. This was actually sharing information about how to make dressings wounds a lot easier for nurses, but I was thinking why couldn't the companies if possible improve band-aids in some way. There are many stages of wounds and the care that is required for each type and the healing medications that may be needed. The stages of wound treatment are that wounds go through an inflammatory stage, a proliferative stage and a remodeling stage in healing. Simply speaking this is when there is swelling, scab formation, and when the new skin forms and your wound is healing or healed. When you do proper wound care you are keeping your body healthy and stopping the chances of allowing the body to be open to other infections that can occur with improper wound care. When you do this you allow for your body to improve collagen, elastin and make your skin stronger. How do you care for your and your family's wounds?