[Closed] How to treat gooey gash?

Argh, strangely I can't stop looking at your gooey gash!!

Have done similar to myself before (on multiple occasions sadly, always my right elbow though) the yellow gooey stuff will go on to form a scab if you leave it open to air - or at least mine did

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocolloid_dressing Works for me

That's pretty manky looks like you're also showing signs of cellulitis, minor injuries will sort that out.

Your gash does look really quite icky. That's a lot of yellow goop.

I think I would going to get it looked at by a nurse at least nhs drop in/minor injuries unit. If nothing else to get it well dressed and thoroughly cleaned.

Make a round of soldiers and dip them in. I reckon about a slice and a half's worth will be enough to use it all up.

Get yourself to a minor injuries clinic or Health centre (ring your GP and they'll be able to direct you. (You don't need A&E)

have you had a tetanus recently?

How to treat gooey gash?

An antibiotic of some sort I would think, but probably best to seek medical advice. I believe there are anonymous walk in clinics for this sort of thing.

ENP wife says get to MIU.

I'll be dammed if I actually have to go to the doctor for such a minor injury.

It is far better to wait and take in a properly interesting case of manly gangrene.

No body said Canesten, standards are slipping

absolutely ****ing gross. warning in thread title plz!

Had something similar, smothered, and I mean smothered it in savlon. It hurt like a beast but it drew out all the mankiness.

[quote=baronsamedi ]No body said [s]Canesten[/s]Sudocrem, standards are slipping

FTFY

Hydrocolloidal dressings are good but that one might be a bit far down the line. Get a rat to lick the goo off and dip it in a hot tub. Cured.

I think two serious and informed replies have given you the Minor Injuries Clinic answer. I'd follow that advice!

I'd always wondered how this stuff was made...

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Make a sponge and invite some friends round for tea.
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or maggot therapy
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Maybe you could combine the two? You have quite a few options here.

[quote=thestabiliser ]Hydrocolloidal dressings are good but that one might be a bit far down the line. Get a rat to lick the goo off and dip it in a hot tub. Cured.

Does he dip the rat in the hot tub or the gooey gash or both?

That needs a better clean and some antibiotics. IAAD

Yellow goo = more than likely infected.
Either wait for it fall off or go get it scrubbed and properly dressed by the nice nurses at a miu

Dip the lot, belt and braces.

What would Stoner do?

Wire brush and Dettol.

For those kind of abrasions I normally dowse the area in TCP spray on plaster. It hurts like a motherf but will kill minor infections and protect the wound.

That one looks a bit far gone though I'd be off to MIU with it to check its not too badly infected

[quote=thestabiliser ]Dip the lot, belt and braces.

Just NO!
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You could try dipping it in hot tar 🙂

Sloppy seconds?

Looks alright to me that.
The yellow stuff is a mixture of serous fluid and white blood cells, if it was green or if you developed an obvious reddening around the wound, or felt a bit feverish or under the weather I would be more concerned.

Try not to disturb the moist gloopy layer over the wound; that's where the healing is going on.

You could leave it open and it should scab, but you can help it to heal by using a dressing like Tegaderm or some other semi-permeable thing.

*This is advice based on a photo, follow it if you want to...*

Thought yellow goo was one of the signs of cat aids. No?

If you're not going to a doctor / walk-in, hydrocolloid dressing is what you need.

This thread just reminded me to take my antibiotics thanks!

Get down the vets and grab a tin of this stuff. 🙂

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I'll be dammed if I actually have to go to the doctor for such a minor injury.

What would Stoner do?

Amputate

I think with that level of goo I'd follow the advice to go to minor injuries.

Especially as a doctor has advised that above, and I've once had a proper infection and had it blasted (very sucessfully) with 2 or 3 antibiotics and some other drugs - I think I was on 20-30 tablets a day for a week - it was not good though, you don't want to let it get to that stage (mine was just an insect bite in February!).

I tend to let them breathe as much as possible, which I find is better for avoiding things getting gooey (although might not be possible if you're wearing shirts and stuff).

That goop is blood serum, dead cells and all the waste from the healing process, but it's got quite a green hue, suggesting you might be culturing something other than new cells. Your actual flesh doesn't look, or sound (from your description) infected, but it could move that direction fairly soon if you leave the muck to Stew.

I'd be cleaning the goo off, giving it a good clean and re-dressing with some antiseptic, keeping an eye and re-dressing regularly. I'd not be seeking proper medical help whilst I could undertake the same basic stuff as they would.

[i]hydrocolloid dressing is what you need[/i]

although keep an eye on your wound - turns out I have a reaction to these dressings and end up with a nasty rash and dry skin (where the wound isn't) and intense itching where it is.

Get hold of some contact lens sterilising fluid, the stuff that needs a neutraliser, not the single pack stuff.
It hydrogen peroxide based, so it's really clean that up. It'll fizz like fury and hurt like a bastard, mind!
Caveat: IANAD, 😉

Well?

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I'm guessing you were a bit shy on the man points when you cleaned it up

Mrs Futtock is a staff nurse & she says to carry on with the Savlon & you'll be fine.

She actually said, 'Silly boy, tell him to go to the quacks or A&E sooner rather than later' cos he needs a wound swab to establish which antibiotics may be needed to prevent Osteomyelitis.

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This started innocuous enough. I didn't get it properly treated and it turned revolting and rotted. It's itching now, just thinking 'bout it.

Medihoney - Manuka honey wound gel.

Amazing stuff.

After recently having a piece of glass stuck in my elbow, cleaning my wound out with pure coconut oil and pouring salt directly into the hole has worked a treat*

Stubg like a mofo though.

The difference a day makes! Thanks for all the advice people.

People appear quite divided on whether goop should remain or not I ended up choosing to keep on removing it. I cleaned it thoroughly again yesterday sprayed it with some iodine that I found then left it uncovered for the day. Did require a subsequent cleaning but eventually the flow of goop as subsided and this morning it is crusted over quite nicely.

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I appreciate what people were saying about getting professionals to tender to it, if I was in UK I might have tried to see local surgery nurse as they are ace - here in Singapore it would cost me $ plus quite a long wait though.

I think what didn't help is that I went down at the beginning of the race so the wound spent over an hour being bathed in jungle funk.

Found a pic of me rumbling round the jungle courtesy of the awesome xtbiker from pinkbike.

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Looks good. That is granulating nicely.

I'd have avoided the antibiotics. If you are young, healthy and up to date with your jabs give your body a chance to heal itself.

We are too quick to jump on the antibiotic wagon and that will be our downfall as resistance builds and we all die of bad stuff.

Source: am charge nurse.

Of course you wouldn't have fallen off in the first place if you'd been on a modern bike with a less flexy back end 😉

it is gooey. I support ScienceOfficer's view but if you're not 'in the trade' I'd recommend going to minor injuries to get it cleaned up professionally and dressed properly. Sure, on the whole you're likely to continue to heal. But the alternative is not nice. Not nice at all.

What Olly said.

What you have now is serum which is fine the gunk you had yesterday isn't.

mountain biking is probably one of those activities that getting medical advice on a wound may be especially important - fell over running in Greno' woods about 15years ago and picked up necrotising fasciitis in my elbow, saved (just) by quick surgery to remove infected tissue

lucky was spotted early following an x-ray review - asked the Consultant why they had reviewed the x-ray with medical students next day - answer was the bug responsible lives in leaf mould and horse crap - notes said been running in woodland and must have gone down hard enough to possibly get stuff into wound if needed an X-ray

a road cyclist here not so lucky:
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Of course you wouldn't have fallen off in the first place if you'd been on a modern bike with a less flexy back end

Gofasterstripes you gash was way gnarlier than mine, I'm assuming that shot was of it fresh, you can see the bruising and some deep bits.

Thanks all for the advice, it is food for thought - I'm trying to find my records to see if I need a tetanus booster, etc. I am now significantly healed and need to get off my arse and do some more riding really.

Glad to hear you're mending dude.

That hand was the result of ricocheting off a very dirty, [url= https://www.google.nl/maps/place/London+Borough+of+Bromley,+UK/ @51.3792848,0.0425469,3a,60y,155.33h,67.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1su4XrQnKyhUVwkMybg1Y6NA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Du4XrQnKyhUVwkMybg1Y6NA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D134.64075%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d8aade0f2c8551:0x40eae2da2ec6970!8m2!3d51.3679705!4d0.070062!6m1!1e1?hl=en]wet and very rough A21[/url] before taking a bus to the chest at 25mph.

Still, I wasn't late for work that day 🙂

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Tropical wounds are fun. I scratched a mozzy bite. It scabbed over I may have picked said scab, a week later walking through the canteen at work, showed nurse my weird looking wound who then marched me up to the infirmary to cut away at it as it had started ulcerating and why had in left it so long, if I wasn't careful I would have to go to hospital. It was the size if a. 5p, burnt as if it was a on fire though.