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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
You're right, but it does help at the outset of a cut.
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Yes, that much it does. It helps the immediate area, just as doing any kind of wound care, but antibiotics are usually prescribed as well.
When I had my brain surgery, I had an incision in my abdomen where the shunt tubing was placed. I developed a staph infection there that was so bad it required another surgery.
I cleansed the wound with normal saline and covered it, doing so twice a day, but that just prevented it from getting worse. The surgeon cut out the area of infection and rerouted my tubing to the other side of my abdomen, and I was on IV antibiotics.
So in a way, saline soaks and cleansing does help, but if someone is running a fever, chances are, the infection is systemic and antibiotics are needed.
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