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Wounded knee details and questions. Spoilerfont for those who don't want to read that stuff:

I've allowed knee wound to scab over now. I think I was keeping it too wet what with bandages and the cremes. It's been years since I had an abraision, much less on my knee.

The area around it is no longer red with irritation, and the scab is a nice dark blood color and slightly shiny. It isn't thick, and general walking and sleeping overnight has cracked it a bit, and a tiny drop of pus came out there, but I expect that from a healing area.

The question is, am I right in removing the bandages and letting it dry out? Is that the proper treatment? The net seems to have conflicting information.

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Dan, I've always been a big believer of the let-it-scab-over-by-air-drying method. Once it scabs over, then I put some kind of antibiotic salve on to keep it flexible, but no bandage, you don't want to get back to unscabbed. Unscabbed allows infection in. I've been treating my own knees that way since the 1960's and I'm not dead yet.

I might occasionally douse it in hydrogen peroxide, but I'm not sure how crazy I am to do that. Most of the time, when I get a scrape, I just blot the blood and then ignore it. I might be crazy.

Oh, Daniel. I have no idea. It would seem the right thing to do, but I have no background that gives me any authority in telling you that.

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Crazy, sure, but not dead. And crazy is fine by me, you'll still be in Ohio for me to visit in April if you're only crazy.

I might occasionally douse it in hydrogen peroxide, but I'm not sure how crazy I am to do that. Most of the time, when I get a scrape, I just blot the blood and then ignore it. I might be crazy.

Well, I did that the first couple of days, to keep the initial wound clean, but my doctor last year told me Hydrogen Peroxide is really over used and can irritate good skin healing processes.

Most of the time, when I get a scrape, I just blot the blood and then ignore it. I might be crazy.

I would be to do that, now that I have diabetes. One has to really keep a lookout for wounds, as diabetes can wreak havok with the infection. (As I found out last year by having an untended leg scratch put me in the hospital for five days)

One has to really keep a lookout for wounds, as diabetes can wreak havok with the infection.

That's why I'm glad you're keeping a real close eye on it. You said there was a little pus, which is okay if it's really just a little. I would, as I mentioned, keep antibiotic salve on it and if clothes chafe too much, then bandage it, but loosely so air can still get to it.

A really tiny blob, SailAweigh maybe 1/8 inch across. Gentle manipulation produced another 1/16th inch blob, then nothing.