Minor injuries or treat at home?

[ScaredSceptic]

This is the sole of my foot, outside edge. It's about 2cm x 1cm. I was in the garden wearing slides, slipped and scraped the skin off on the edge of a paving slab.

It bled a bit, but stopped fairly quickly and I've cleaned it as best I can (it's a very awkward place to reach easily) and put savlon on it. I've got this flap of loose skin there which wants to go back over the wound but not sure if I should let it, or if the skin flap needs to come off.

Obviously I'll keep it covered but I'm a bit concerned about the risk of infection given it was scraped on a dirty paving slab. However don't want to waste NHS resources for what is a fairly small scrape.

Would you just keep an eye on it? If it wasn't on my foot and hadn't happened against a dirty paving slab I wouldn't even consider getting it looked at, but just not sure.

Funnily enough I've always thought the same when I've seen other people asking about what look like incredibly minor things which I would never even contemplate getting checked.

And now I'm one of those people.

I guess it just goes to show we all worry about different things for different reasons.

"Wound - an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken."

It works just fine to me. OP is clearly worried, you can get your point across without being rude or dismissive.

I'm always fascinated by Mumsnetters need for Germolene and Savlon.

Should I be dead now from sepsis having never bothered with them?

Love how you quoted that and removed the example it then gave. Which was knife wound. 😃

OP I care for someone with diabetes who often gets minor scrapes etc. Previous poster has suggested Inadine - ie little squares of special iodine-impregnated gauze. I'd second that. It's what our practice nurse uses, held in place by a simple sterile adhesive dressing. I also use it for the person I care for, as recommended by practice nurse. You change the dressing every two/three days or so. Use very clean hands and don't touch the surface of the Inadine square or the sterile dressing.

You can buy packs of Inadine at big branches of high street chemists, or often more cheaply from medical suppliers online. You can buy the simple sterile adhesive dressings (in boxes of single packs) at Boots and also at supermarkets. I find the Morrisons version excellent and very cheap.

Yes.

Have a Dettol bath and resolve to change your ways.

Ah thanks so much - I had assumed the PP had just made a typo for iodine! I'll have a look at those.

You're debating to go to minor injuries? Where is the injury?

Stick some savlon on it and a plaster and that's that.

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