How to treat Cuts and Abrasions (Cuts and Abrasions First Aid)

A cut is a clean slice into the skin.  Minor cuts damage only the skin and the fatty tissue beneath it.  They usually heal without permanent damage.  More serious cuts may damage muscles, tendons, blood vessels  ligaments or nerves.  These cuts should be examined by a doctor.  An abrasion is an injury caused by a thing that rubs or scrapes against the skin damaging or wearing away by rubbing, or scraping or grinding. An abrasion is a wound that is cause of an existing damage to the skin, no deeper than the epidermis.  

Scraps or abrasions

It Occur when one or more layers of skin are torn or scrapped damage the upper layers, but they don’t gape open. They are usually caused by falls onto the hands, knees or elbows, exposing the nerve  endings that carry pain impulses to the brain.  Because abrasions can affect so many nerve endings, they are usually much more painful than cuts.

Most abrasions and scrapes happen so often they seem unimportant and are usually treated at home.  However, if they become infected, call your doctor.  You can get an infection caused of a wound by tetanus bacteria.

Complications

• Severe bleeding, when a major artery or vein is damaged
• Infection of the wound, characterized by fever, inflammation, worsening pain and pus formation
• Onset of tetanus from infection of a wound by tetanus bacteria

What you can do?

• Stop the bleeding. Clean the area well with soap and water.  Press on the wound hard enough to stop the bleeding.  Don’t let up  on the pressure even to change cloths. Just add a clean cloth over the original one.  If there is a lot of bleeding, raise the wound above heart level, unless this will be painful.  If blood spurts from a wound or bleeding does not stop after 10 minutes of applying pressure, call your doctor immediately.

• Clean the wound. Wash out the cut with soap and water.  Make sure no dirt, glass or foreign material remains  in the wound.  Avoid using hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, Mercurochrome or iodine.  They are not necessary, can be very painful and may delay healing.  If the cut is very dirty or you cannot get all dirt out.

• Bandage the wound. Bandage a cut if its edges tend to fall together and when the cut is not very deep.  Use “butterfly bandages,” strips of sterile  paper tape, or adhesive strip bandages to keep edges together.  Apply the bandage crosswise, not lengthwise, to bring the edges of the wound into firm contact and promote healing.  Moist wounds heal faster and have less scar tissue than dry wounds.

Watch this video to be aware on how to treat abrasions, in case one of your love ones or even stranger yous saw experiencing it, helping them using your knowledge about the abrasion first aid.

The previous video is about abrasion, now i want you to watch this another vid to make you also aware. Know how to act when someone experienced cut.

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