Caring for cuts, burns and scrapes: The rules have changed

Friday, July 29, 2016 - 07:31 in Health & Medicine

The days of using alcohol or peroxide — ouch! — to flush a cut or scrape and then letting it air dry so it scabs over is … well, old school. So is putting ice, butter or aloe on a burn. “I hear all of this every single day in our wound care center,” says Dr. Kazu Suzuki, director at Tower Wound...

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