salt in wound

[flano]

does putting salt in a wound heal it faster?

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[maxwellsmart]

Rubbing salt into a wound can cause a lot of pain and it is used in every day conversation with the meaning of compounding difficulty and suffering.....but in the medical sense i think it will clean the wound but it will cause some smarting.... as for it helping the wound heal faster hmmm I'll leave that to the experts.....

[jakesi]

Ouch.

[undercovers]

no - will not speed up healing process

[bruce-lucie]

it doesn't make it actually heal faster, but its very good to clean it, and personally i use it for everything, so having a bath of salty water, v good

[FTVS]

I have done this and no it didn't. It certrainly left a big scar but whether this was the injury or the salt...?

[forestertwo]

I had an open wound which needed daily dressings.  The District Nurse recommended I bathed daily in a bath of salt water.  Not sure if it healed quicker but is definitely a way of keeping it clean.  I wouldn't put salt straight on though - ouch!!