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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
picture will most likely not be coming until it is less gruesome. The numbskull who dressed the wound, did so incorrectly and the bandage adhered to the wound. My primary said to just wait until the scab pushed the dressing off.
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When I was a child I had an injury to both knees (still have the scars) caused by the school bully shoving me down in front of the school ... in a construction zone. My knees were basicaly shredded with the fine addition of a lot of grit and small bits of gravel being forced in and under the skin. There wasn't enough remaining intact skin to stitch, so the docs picked out most of the crud, slapped some 4X4s and a lot of cling bandage on it.
Anyway ...
As should have been expected from putting dry bandage onto wet wound, the whole thing stuck pretty severely (if you think it sucks to have the stuck bandage thing going on now, at the age of 7 your pain tolerance is one hell of a lot lower, and your squick factor a lot higher when it came to bits of your own body going awry).
Anyway, I seem to recall that the solution to the dressing change dilemma was to drip small amounts of warmed water onto the scab to loosen the dried blood until it was possible to peel the bandage off.
Medical science and the understanding of infection control was, of course, much more primitive in the 1960s. Check with your own physician. See if he'll hook you up with a bottle of sterile saline solution for the same purpose.