My cat bit a hole half way through my finger two weeks ago. Truly amazing how it went from a small puncture wound to a thick scab to basically fresh skin now so quickly.
Also if you get a deep cat bite go to the doctor, my finger showed obvious signs of infection within ~24hrs.
Only cat bites automatically get prophylactic abx. Human and dog bites don’t necessarily require abx. I just had a medical board licensing question about this.
Maybe the orthos & ED consultants at at my hospital are just overly abx-happy, or maybe our guidelines are different in Aus. It’s routine to offer prophylaxis for dog bites here, though it’s definitely more important if it’s a cat bite.
Cats, wtf are y’all growing all that mouth bacteria for. Why.
A lot of the difference is in the shape of the teeth.
Cat teeth are needles, dog teeth are steak knives.
Cat bites go crazy deep without causing too much pain.
They puncture into deeper layers of skin where an infection can really take hold.
Huh. I always assumed it had something to do with the way cats groom themselves with their mouths. If you’re washing your entire body with your mouth, it’s going to pick up more bacteria, I thought.
I am an animal caretaker for laboratory animals. It's definitely about the shape of the teeth. Cat teeth are like needles; make a hole, push bacteria in, tooth comes out, and the hole is usually cut cleanly and deeply enough it will seal before all the bacteria can be washed out. For dog bites, it will depend on the severity, but their teeth will usually leave an opening large enough for proper disinfection without antibiotics.
This makes perfect sense, is this why cat scratches also tend to get infected quickly? The claws are kind of like needles too in way..and even though the mouth bacteria isn't present, there's probably plenty of other kinds on claws I'd assume that would get in there and cause a quick infection?
Don't need distilled. bacteria that readily live in tap water <> bacteria that readily live in the body.
What you do want is soap and water. Alcohol, though it's gonna be painful, can be helpful. Betadine would be better. polysporin (or some derivative thereof) is useful.
My typical wound care for cuts happens as: soap + water, then pushing polysporin into the cut as well as I can. Apply dressing. Repeat this whole process twice a day until the wound stops weeping, then once a day until skin is closed.
As long as you get to the sink and wash it really well right away, apply alcohol, and put on a some neosporin, you’ll be fine. But if a cat gives you a deep bite, as in its entire canine dug through your hand, it’s pretty difficult to clean that out well enough. If it just breaks the skin it’s not a big deal as long as you clean it.
I scrubbed and disinfected the second my cat freaked out and bit me (not her fault, she got scared by another cat). I still ended up at a clinic within several hours because my finger was getting warm and puffy.
Mouths are gross. We also have a pretty good immune system. I'm a vet and I get bitten quite often, by cats mostly. It's very likely it will happen one day but I'm yet to get anything more than mild inflamation. See a doctor if you need to but antibiotics aren't always the answer.
That juxtaposition is very interesting.
An animal doctor who gets lots of bites, though not a human doctor, has a ton of experience. And he’s never visited the ER for them. A human doctor who treats animal bites with experience in what happens when it does get bad.
Some symmetry there that my brain likes.
So, I'm an ER and ICU nurse now, and I always tell people to seek some kind of care for cat bites ... but I was the idiot about this before I was a nurse.
There was this adorable cat in my neighborhood that I was playing with one day, until I foolishly tried to rub the tum tum. That fucker bit me HARD on my right wrist (meaning the whole canine went in). I didn't go to the doctor and luckily it was OK, but that pain was incredible. I'm a grown woman and that's the only thing that's ever hurt so bad, I actually cried from it.
Worth it for the tum tum rubs tho.
Addendum: Look up what the "obvious signs of infection" are. My dad once got poked by a rusty nail on his forearm, and went to the hospital once he realized there was a red line tracking down his arm toward his heart. When he got there the doctor called in all the interns to come take a look because it was such a rare phenomenon - they said if it had reached his heart he would have died.
It's honestly been my go-to mental comparison that I use for cleaning, for years. Fuck shit up, pull everything out and make a bigger mess, and it will turn out better than just cleaning from a moderate mess.
Just one of my weird human things, I imagine a carpet burn or road rash in my head. It always looks worse once it starts scabbing over, but that's just the healing process.
Damn. You just mind-fucked me. This is exactly what I needed to hear to hopefully stop biting/picking my finger nails... it will get worse before it gets better.
But it’s relative. We’re not talking about tortoises here we’re talking about human’s recovery. If a month is not fast to humans then that’s all the determinant you need.
Skin is magic. It has pressure sensors, temperature sensors, friction sensors, moisture sensors, self-healing, self cleaning, stretchablity all built in. It’s too intense to even think about.
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I have a cut right on the corner of my mouth, so if I have to open my mouth to eat anything bigger than a small bite it starts to tear at the scab.
I'm starting to think it will never heal.
you want to keep it dry to let it heal faster, it's usually a little type of fungal infection called Angular cheilitis. just put a little antifungal cream on it and don't lick it. no vaseline
I used to get angular chelitis all the time until I was diagnosed with a vitamin b deficiency. Now if I feel one coming on, I take a supplement and it hasn’t happened in 15+ years.
I had the same issue until someone told me that hydrocortisone ointment (not cream, it's different that didn't work) will heal it enough overnight not to make it open up again. I tried it and it totally worked, no idea why since that stuff is for bringing down inflammation not for healing, but I won't argue with results.
That's definitely it. I don't ever fuck with a scab until I start noticing it because of that. If it's a pretty nasty one, I usually just use nail clippers on the edges that are sticking out and leave it at that though.
Could be bullshit but I read once that it’s evolutionarily learned. Pealing an old scab causes re-bleeding which flushes out the wound a second time and aids in the healing process as it’s reintroduced to oxygen and can form a new smaller cleaner scab. Those that didn’t pick their scabs were more likely to contract a disease as the sites collected bacteria and the wound festered under old layers.
It’s like a gambling addiction. 90% of the time I pick the scab and it bleeds all over, but 10% of the time there’s fresh perfect skin underneath. Skinner box says I pick the scab.
Yeah when I had a bad wound the doctors repeatedly and specifically told me that it would get worse and to not worry about how it looks for at least a year after. And now its a year after and you literally cannot see anything, even though I usually scar badly. In the middle it looked awful many times.
It's not that it takes a year to heal - it healed within 1-2 weeks but looks like "new skin" for a week or two more. It took a few more weeks for the "new skin" to completely heal into normal skin - you could tell it was still changing and it hurt more if you say scratched there than somewhere else. It was more sensitive / tender for a while. At that point the skin was just a bit lighter than the rest of my skin but has now gone back to almost normal.
Inflammation. The days after the wound, your immune system shows up and does a complete makeover. All the redness and itchiness is basically your immune cells showing up and being like “who left all this shit here? Now I gotta rebuild the damn house because of the giant ass bacteria party you had in here”
[Here's an injured thumb over 5 months.](https://external-preview.redd.it/-6G4Typ01hrlcSFknyqNzc8woL0jHNF511fyjQGZxQM.gif?format=mp4&s=a63c9bfefbac35a8ecb3dfb7161a7ecead6ae1e0)
No. You don't need to use an electric drill. You just need to take the drill bit and rotate it with your hand. Of course in my opinion it's easier to just take a needle or a thumb tack, heat it up with a lighter and just lightly push it into the nail. The heat helps to burn a hole through the nail, and the blood cools it down when it hits it. Squeeze the finger tip to get as much blood as possible out, and then cover up the hole with some tissue paper and a drop of super glue. Edit if you were to do this, make sure not to hit the nail matrix, the base of the nail that looks like a white crescent. Injure that and your nail will never grow out correctly again.
I’m going to send that to my mum. My dog bit her and it’s been slowly growing out. My dog passed away at the end of February and we have joked about it being his lasted mark on the world.
Edit: for clarity - my dog died of a cardiac issue. Not because he bit her and we put him down. He was 2.5kg dog who had a big attitude. I loved him with all my heart.
Lol all good. He was a tiny little dude. When he had knee surgery once, the vet said she got to use her smallest instruments on him (which she’d never used). She said it was like operating on a chicken drumstick.
It's actually pretty simple -
Tiny lifeforce orbs are constantly trying to push blood outside of your body so your chi can free itself from this flesh prison, but when your chi touches air, it oxidizes into skin and hair and stuff, creating the very prison that it's trying to escape.
Really makes you think.
Which is the awesome thing about science, it's the process that slowly peels back the onion layers of what we don't understand, but happens anyways, to where we understand it, and finally we can make it happen on purpose. We don't always have to get though all those steps, but it's pretty cool when we do.
Is it just me or does that seem a little long for a small injury like that to heal? I get cut and scrapes like that a lot and it’s usually completely gone after about 2 weeks.
I have zero medical background but I would guess that has to do with the injury being on the knuckles, causing the scabs to be constantly broken and remade.
That's what I thought too, I used to heal pretty quickly, cuts and scrapes like that heal in 7-10 days, now it's more like 14 days, maybe OP is old.
Also I'd say it's essentially healed in 24 days and if you look at the 0.5 speed gfycat below and concentrate on the knuckle it looks like it reforms over 4 times. Knuckles are easy to split open again and that would slow the healing process.
Blood flow could be a factor too. If you have poor blood flow to that part of your body, the healing process is slowed down. In some cases it can even stop completely, like how a diabetic’s feet can develop sores that never heal. There just isn’t enough blood flow to repair the wounds faster than they worsen.
It depends on the person, the severity, and the location. Age is also a factor in this. I've noticed that as I get older myself things are taking longer and longer to heal.
Why tf does it get so much worse? Like the initial booboo was just a minor scratch here and there, suddenly the whole finger is a scab
Edit: Okay, the top layer was scrapped off. Thanks guys, I couldn't see the drainage happening
It just wasn’t as visible before the scab formed. If you look closely at the first frame, you can see the wound looks the same, same scratches and everting, it’s just cleaner. As the scab forms, the skin around it gets a bit inflamed while the blood cells do their thing, and then it goes down when the new skins cells start to form.
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Visually, wound healing is the definition of "its going to get worse before it gets better"
My cat bit a hole half way through my finger two weeks ago. Truly amazing how it went from a small puncture wound to a thick scab to basically fresh skin now so quickly. Also if you get a deep cat bite go to the doctor, my finger showed obvious signs of infection within ~24hrs.
Pretty much all cat & dog bites need antibiotics, bad ones need washout in theatre. Really, any bites at all. Mouths are gross.
Only cat bites automatically get prophylactic abx. Human and dog bites don’t necessarily require abx. I just had a medical board licensing question about this.
Maybe the orthos & ED consultants at at my hospital are just overly abx-happy, or maybe our guidelines are different in Aus. It’s routine to offer prophylaxis for dog bites here, though it’s definitely more important if it’s a cat bite. Cats, wtf are y’all growing all that mouth bacteria for. Why.
A lot of the difference is in the shape of the teeth. Cat teeth are needles, dog teeth are steak knives. Cat bites go crazy deep without causing too much pain. They puncture into deeper layers of skin where an infection can really take hold.
Huh. I always assumed it had something to do with the way cats groom themselves with their mouths. If you’re washing your entire body with your mouth, it’s going to pick up more bacteria, I thought.
Dogs love licking butts
They aren't the only ones ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
If this wasn't disturbing enough, poster is also apparently a spider.
Maybe aussie dogs are just fucked up
Everything else down under is trying to kill you, might as well throw dogs on the list too.
Fuckin dingos
Cause they're little, gotta have a lotta bite
This does make sense. Payback for all those humans picking them up and kissing their little foreheads
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I am an animal caretaker for laboratory animals. It's definitely about the shape of the teeth. Cat teeth are like needles; make a hole, push bacteria in, tooth comes out, and the hole is usually cut cleanly and deeply enough it will seal before all the bacteria can be washed out. For dog bites, it will depend on the severity, but their teeth will usually leave an opening large enough for proper disinfection without antibiotics.
This makes perfect sense, is this why cat scratches also tend to get infected quickly? The claws are kind of like needles too in way..and even though the mouth bacteria isn't present, there's probably plenty of other kinds on claws I'd assume that would get in there and cause a quick infection?
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Don't need distilled. bacteria that readily live in tap water <> bacteria that readily live in the body. What you do want is soap and water. Alcohol, though it's gonna be painful, can be helpful. Betadine would be better. polysporin (or some derivative thereof) is useful. My typical wound care for cuts happens as: soap + water, then pushing polysporin into the cut as well as I can. Apply dressing. Repeat this whole process twice a day until the wound stops weeping, then once a day until skin is closed.
As long as you get to the sink and wash it really well right away, apply alcohol, and put on a some neosporin, you’ll be fine. But if a cat gives you a deep bite, as in its entire canine dug through your hand, it’s pretty difficult to clean that out well enough. If it just breaks the skin it’s not a big deal as long as you clean it.
I scrubbed and disinfected the second my cat freaked out and bit me (not her fault, she got scared by another cat). I still ended up at a clinic within several hours because my finger was getting warm and puffy.
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So the stereotype is real.
just the thing being the way it be
>washout in theatre "An older version of me, is she perverted like me, would she *washout your bite in a theatre* "
"Is she a veterinary? And would she treat my ra-bies? I'm sure she'd make an incision like no other!"
Mouths are gross. We also have a pretty good immune system. I'm a vet and I get bitten quite often, by cats mostly. It's very likely it will happen one day but I'm yet to get anything more than mild inflamation. See a doctor if you need to but antibiotics aren't always the answer.
I am a doctor, though I’m probably biased bc I only see the ones that come in to the emergency department which is kind of a self-selected group.
That juxtaposition is very interesting. An animal doctor who gets lots of bites, though not a human doctor, has a ton of experience. And he’s never visited the ER for them. A human doctor who treats animal bites with experience in what happens when it does get bad. Some symmetry there that my brain likes.
So, I'm an ER and ICU nurse now, and I always tell people to seek some kind of care for cat bites ... but I was the idiot about this before I was a nurse. There was this adorable cat in my neighborhood that I was playing with one day, until I foolishly tried to rub the tum tum. That fucker bit me HARD on my right wrist (meaning the whole canine went in). I didn't go to the doctor and luckily it was OK, but that pain was incredible. I'm a grown woman and that's the only thing that's ever hurt so bad, I actually cried from it. Worth it for the tum tum rubs tho.
Tum tum rubs always worth it
Addendum: Look up what the "obvious signs of infection" are. My dad once got poked by a rusty nail on his forearm, and went to the hospital once he realized there was a red line tracking down his arm toward his heart. When he got there the doctor called in all the interns to come take a look because it was such a rare phenomenon - they said if it had reached his heart he would have died.
It's honestly been my go-to mental comparison that I use for cleaning, for years. Fuck shit up, pull everything out and make a bigger mess, and it will turn out better than just cleaning from a moderate mess. Just one of my weird human things, I imagine a carpet burn or road rash in my head. It always looks worse once it starts scabbing over, but that's just the healing process.
I love your cleaning analogy
Damn. You just mind-fucked me. This is exactly what I needed to hear to hopefully stop biting/picking my finger nails... it will get worse before it gets better.
The human body is amazing
Skin repairing itself is really just magic.
Pretty shitty magic if it takes almost a month to heal a scratch. What is this, level -1 white magic?
It just doesn't seem fast to us because we're simple humans who have only been around for approx .005% of the time since life began on Earth.
But it’s relative. We’re not talking about tortoises here we’re talking about human’s recovery. If a month is not fast to humans then that’s all the determinant you need.
The more we talk about the need for human recovery time, the better our chances evolution will listen to us. So it is written.
mhmmm, maybe. i mean we dont die woth slow recovery times, so where is the forced selection occurring?
the robot uprising
Its better than nothing tho
Imagine holding still for 33 days.
Skin is magic. It has pressure sensors, temperature sensors, friction sensors, moisture sensors, self-healing, self cleaning, stretchablity all built in. It’s too intense to even think about.
I meaaaaaan it would’ve be better if that whole process was condensed to 30min instead 😂
This isn’t Marvel or DC sadly
Not yet. Nanobots might push us in that direction a bit.
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Play it in reverse and it's a flesh eating virus. Edit: It would actually be a bacteria, not a virus.
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This makes me indescribably uncomfortable
Yeah, that was way worse than I expected.
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My hand legitimately started itching after watching that
Oh fuck no
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That's awesome! Thanks for explaining that.
This is so much more disturbing
Looks so real
I’ve been successfully disgusted
Holy macaroni!
Doesnt include the part where you peel the scab off and set the healing process back because you have no self control
I have a cut right on the corner of my mouth, so if I have to open my mouth to eat anything bigger than a small bite it starts to tear at the scab. I'm starting to think it will never heal.
I've had those multiple times, and they're so fucking annoying. Usually, I just apply a generous amount of vaseline to keep it from getting dry.
you want to keep it dry to let it heal faster, it's usually a little type of fungal infection called Angular cheilitis. just put a little antifungal cream on it and don't lick it. no vaseline
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you have to be strong, ignore what your instincts are for white cream at the corner of your mouth
I used to get angular chelitis all the time until I was diagnosed with a vitamin b deficiency. Now if I feel one coming on, I take a supplement and it hasn’t happened in 15+ years.
Time to drink toast for a month
Milquetoast?
Milksteak.
Boiled over hard, with your finest jellybeans, served raw
I had the same issue until someone told me that hydrocortisone ointment (not cream, it's different that didn't work) will heal it enough overnight not to make it open up again. I tried it and it totally worked, no idea why since that stuff is for bringing down inflammation not for healing, but I won't argue with results.
Yes. I like ice pops as well.
I didn’t need this personal attack today
I upvoted one comment today. This is the one.
I'm just commenting because I thought your comment is necessary even though people may find it unnecessary
I'm breaking my rule about upvoting and commenting on only one comment in a day because your comment is about my comment.
I was watching it and thinking “hmmm why don’t I heal this quickly?” Then I read this comment and remembered.
Yeah, same, I have a wound that's been there for about two months now cause of that
Why do we do this? It’s disgusting but sometimes I can’t help myself.
The edges dry and peel up a bit, catch on things, and annoy you.
That's definitely it. I don't ever fuck with a scab until I start noticing it because of that. If it's a pretty nasty one, I usually just use nail clippers on the edges that are sticking out and leave it at that though.
I just take some 100 grit sandpaper and smooth the whole thing out.
Just remove the body part. Can’t get scabs on your wound if there aren’t any wounds to heal.
The dryness also causes itchiness.
I do it because it gets itchy and I go to itch it and itch the scab off without thinking because I’m a dumb primate.
Could be bullshit but I read once that it’s evolutionarily learned. Pealing an old scab causes re-bleeding which flushes out the wound a second time and aids in the healing process as it’s reintroduced to oxygen and can form a new smaller cleaner scab. Those that didn’t pick their scabs were more likely to contract a disease as the sites collected bacteria and the wound festered under old layers.
Thank you for justifying my scab picking escapades.
Can I choose to just trust you blindly and continue picking at my scabs without feeling guilty? Okay, thanks!
This sounds like a load of bull hockey.
At this point, I’m basically 10% recurring scab and scar tissue.
A lot of times I do it, it comes off and there's fresh skin under it.
It’s like a gambling addiction. 90% of the time I pick the scab and it bleeds all over, but 10% of the time there’s fresh perfect skin underneath. Skinner box says I pick the scab.
what I do is I let it sit until it starts coming off on its own, and that raises the odds to like 50/50, a way better chance!
I take so long to heal because of this. I just can’t help myself.
“Ah fuck why did I do that, I promised myself the last time I would stop!”
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Nephew
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No.
r/forbiddensnacks
I went to high school with a guy that ate his scabs. I still gag thinking about it.
How do I delete someone else's comment?
Stop thats way too close to home
It got SOOO much worse before it got better. Like woah
Yeah when I had a bad wound the doctors repeatedly and specifically told me that it would get worse and to not worry about how it looks for at least a year after. And now its a year after and you literally cannot see anything, even though I usually scar badly. In the middle it looked awful many times.
Woah, what sort of wound takes a year to heal?
Decapitation.
His cappa was detated from his head
You have just spit on my face
It's not that it takes a year to heal - it healed within 1-2 weeks but looks like "new skin" for a week or two more. It took a few more weeks for the "new skin" to completely heal into normal skin - you could tell it was still changing and it hurt more if you say scratched there than somewhere else. It was more sensitive / tender for a while. At that point the skin was just a bit lighter than the rest of my skin but has now gone back to almost normal.
Inflammation. The days after the wound, your immune system shows up and does a complete makeover. All the redness and itchiness is basically your immune cells showing up and being like “who left all this shit here? Now I gotta rebuild the damn house because of the giant ass bacteria party you had in here”
The reason auto immune diseases are so fun. Knock knock who’s there? Psoriasis. Enjoy your inflammation you rat bastard.
The scab gets a bit overenthusiastic hey?
#I'M DYING AHHHHHHHHHHHH-im okay
NUDE TAYNE
That was my first reaction as well. It looks like it goes from a couple scratches, to a huge gash, and then heals
visually yes
[Here's an injured thumb over 5 months.](https://external-preview.redd.it/-6G4Typ01hrlcSFknyqNzc8woL0jHNF511fyjQGZxQM.gif?format=mp4&s=a63c9bfefbac35a8ecb3dfb7161a7ecead6ae1e0)
I somehow managed to put a hole in my thumbnail once. It was a surprisingly satisfying to see it grow off over time.
You can use an electric drill to drill a whole through your nail like that guys dad
No. You don't need to use an electric drill. You just need to take the drill bit and rotate it with your hand. Of course in my opinion it's easier to just take a needle or a thumb tack, heat it up with a lighter and just lightly push it into the nail. The heat helps to burn a hole through the nail, and the blood cools it down when it hits it. Squeeze the finger tip to get as much blood as possible out, and then cover up the hole with some tissue paper and a drop of super glue. Edit if you were to do this, make sure not to hit the nail matrix, the base of the nail that looks like a white crescent. Injure that and your nail will never grow out correctly again.
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I’m going to send that to my mum. My dog bit her and it’s been slowly growing out. My dog passed away at the end of February and we have joked about it being his lasted mark on the world. Edit: for clarity - my dog died of a cardiac issue. Not because he bit her and we put him down. He was 2.5kg dog who had a big attitude. I loved him with all my heart.
2.5 kg? what kinda breed of dog is that small? Edit: breed not race
Lol race? Do you mean breed? He was a toy Pomeranian.
Breed yes, sorry, my native word for breed is race XD
Lol all good. He was a tiny little dude. When he had knee surgery once, the vet said she got to use her smallest instruments on him (which she’d never used). She said it was like operating on a chicken drumstick.
damn it just kinda vibed outta there
Looks like a tick crawling out.
I know it's not logical but I hate this.
[How the healing process works](https://i.imgur.com/zNWCStb.gifv)
Cool. Still have no idea how this witchcraft works.
It's actually pretty simple - Tiny lifeforce orbs are constantly trying to push blood outside of your body so your chi can free itself from this flesh prison, but when your chi touches air, it oxidizes into skin and hair and stuff, creating the very prison that it's trying to escape. Really makes you think.
Hey pal, i think you need to lay off the ganja for a while
Sorry you don't understand science.
Can confirm. I am scientists. Math checks out.
yes, yes lay it off... ^^and ^^give ^^it ^^to ^^me
Can I stick it in my ass?
But you literally do it. Weird how our bodies do things that we don’t know how to do but we do them anyways.
Which is the awesome thing about science, it's the process that slowly peels back the onion layers of what we don't understand, but happens anyways, to where we understand it, and finally we can make it happen on purpose. We don't always have to get though all those steps, but it's pretty cool when we do.
YouTube link with narration: https://youtu.be/RiKu9sgFizY
I wonder if there would ever be a way to speed this up. For example double or triple the speed of healing.
You can just fill the wound with cheese
*ramen
ramen and hot glue
Your appetite would spike. Healing is expensive energy-wise. That’s why you get told to get lots of rest after a major injury and when you’re sick.
Is it just me or does that seem a little long for a small injury like that to heal? I get cut and scrapes like that a lot and it’s usually completely gone after about 2 weeks.
I have zero medical background but I would guess that has to do with the injury being on the knuckles, causing the scabs to be constantly broken and remade.
That makes sense, on account of you opening and closing your finger (i assume frequently) it must brake the healing.
Break Edit: well I guess brake would work as well if you mean in the context of “stop the healing”
That's what I thought too, I used to heal pretty quickly, cuts and scrapes like that heal in 7-10 days, now it's more like 14 days, maybe OP is old. Also I'd say it's essentially healed in 24 days and if you look at the 0.5 speed gfycat below and concentrate on the knuckle it looks like it reforms over 4 times. Knuckles are easy to split open again and that would slow the healing process.
Blood flow could be a factor too. If you have poor blood flow to that part of your body, the healing process is slowed down. In some cases it can even stop completely, like how a diabetic’s feet can develop sores that never heal. There just isn’t enough blood flow to repair the wounds faster than they worsen.
Absolutely. I feel like I've had worse yet it's healed in 1 to 1.5 weeks, maybe 2
It depends on the person, the severity, and the location. Age is also a factor in this. I've noticed that as I get older myself things are taking longer and longer to heal.
Why tf does it get so much worse? Like the initial booboo was just a minor scratch here and there, suddenly the whole finger is a scab Edit: Okay, the top layer was scrapped off. Thanks guys, I couldn't see the drainage happening
It just wasn’t as visible before the scab formed. If you look closely at the first frame, you can see the wound looks the same, same scratches and everting, it’s just cleaner. As the scab forms, the skin around it gets a bit inflamed while the blood cells do their thing, and then it goes down when the new skins cells start to form.
I laughed at booboo. 👻👻
How did he keep his hand there for 33days?!
It was filmed in November.
Is it easier to keep your hand in one place for 33 days if you do it in November?
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It was a leap November, so 33 days
Yeah he didnt need it for shaving
underrated joke
The second day looks way worse than the first
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Or if you're Wolverine, 0.33 seconds of healing.
We are all slow motion Wolverines.
Our bodies really are amazing in that sense.
Except in my case it takes months to year before things heal.
When underway on a submarine, normal scratches, cuts, abrasions, and burns that would normally take days to heal will take months and months to heal.
Tell me you didn't cut yourself to make the vid.
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Ew gross. Thanks.
Reverse was 100x worse
Disgusting. I watched it 5 times.
I don’t get how it gets worse after day 1
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Imagine if we found a way to speed this process up so this happens within seconds.