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 To process of wound healing happens in three phases, the first being inflammatory, proliferative being the second, and remodeling in the last or third. The entire healing process involves the growth of millions of very small blood vessels that produce new capillaries. With the formation of new collagens, the wound edges are pulled together resulting [...]

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With the rapid increase in environmental pollution, the presence of invisible micro organisms of both viral and bacterial origin in the air, too, has increased. This is giving rise to more and more of rhinoviruses, influenza, and other types of easily-spread diseases, specially in winter. As a protective against them, hand washing is an essential [...]

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 While tackling injuries and open wounds, we are often guided by wrong advice or knowledge, which is known to do more harm than good to the injured. That’s why it’s essential to be properly trained and to be knowledgeable about wounds, their categories ad methods of basic treatment. Always remember that whenever there’s an accident [...]

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The process of washing hands is essential and even mandatory to hygienic living as going by the adage of cleanliness being next to godliness; it is the fundamental exercise to keep disease at bay, especially in children. Washing hands is an absolute must in the medical profession where sterility standards are high and where presence [...]

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 A wound infection is much more dangerous than the wound itself and needs constant cleaning to help the wound heal faster. That’s why it’s always important to monitor the wound’s healing progress and should it turn out that the healing is taking longer than usual, and then immediate measures are called for. A wound infection, [...]

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The operating room of a hospital or nursing home is and should be a completely sterile zone to ensure that water or air borne infections don’t come in. The operating room nurse-in-charge takes care of the aseptic techniques in three phases, the first being preoperative, the second being intra-operative, and the third being the postoperative [...]

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 Most children prefer not to wash their hands before eating, especially during winter. But the essential thing they need to learn that washing hands before a meal is absolutely mandatory to maintain hygiene and good health. So how do you make washing hands more fun for them so that it becomes a regular habit? Use [...]

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A burn wound, whether minor or major, has to be dealt with in the most sterile conditions as burnt tissue is most susceptible to catching infection, turning into gangrene and causing a most painful death. Burns are basically of three types – 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees. While first aid is sufficient for 1st degree [...]

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 Minor cuts and wounds are a part of our daily lives, especially when you children at home. Every family has its share of bruised knees and elbows resulting from falls when children are at play or even with elderly people who are prone to taking a tumble now and then. Since this is often a [...]

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Blood borne pathogens are responsible for causing certain deadly diseases like hepatitis, AIDS, syphilis, malaria and relapsing fever. Thus if you are on a job that requires constant exposure to infected fluids and blood then there are certain precautions that you have to take in order to protect yourself as these can prove to be [...]

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