TIFU by attempting to clean my wound with hydrogen peroxide

Submitted by UB-01_Symbiont t3_125z7am in tifu

This just happened a few minutes ago but, I was trying to get some dead skin off my nose because it annoys me to no end seeing it at the bottom of my vision. Like, you know when you get glitter on your nose and when the light hits it just right, you can see the glitter without needing a mirror? It's like that. So, to try to get the dead skin off, I carefully used a needle to raise it up so that I could use tweezers to peel it off. I accidentally went too far into the skin and Idk how to describe it but I scraped some live skin, causing it to feel raw but not bleed yet. Immediately, I stopped and I put peroxide on my nose, thinking it would clean out the wound. I let it sit until it stopped bubbling like my mom would do for me when I was younger. I heard that popping a pimple on your nose can lead to an infection in your brain, so to be on the safe side, I did it 2 more times. When I wiped away the peroxide from the 3rd attempt, I saw that something white had formed on my nose. No matter how much I tried rubbing it off, it wouldn't budge. Upon closer inspection, I thought it looked like chemical burn so I showed my mom and she said to just leave it alone. At the time of writing this, it has since faded but never again am I doing that, though, my nose still hurts.

TL;DR tried peeling dead skin off my nose, ended up hurting myself, tried cleaning wound with peroxide, did it 3 times and ended up with a white spot on my face. Nose still hurts but appears to be overall ok.

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Kirstemis t1_je6r31w wrote

You have more chance of being hit by lightning than getting a brain infection from squeezing a zit on your nose.

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StranglesMcWhiskey t1_je6pi76 wrote

Hydrogen peroxide is not good for cleaning wounds. If you need to clean a wound use alcohol.

Edit: you probably shouldn't use alcohol either, just use water.

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UB-01_Symbiont OP t1_je6purg wrote

Then what is it good for?

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Fantasy-Chronicle t1_je6s117 wrote

Its intended purposes are for hard surfaces, not direct exposure to broken, open wounds on your body. It is moreso meant as a surface cleaner/disinfectant because it can damage and slow down progress of healing wounds. I wouldnt even use a diluted version on myself tbh. Especially not if the kind youre using is the white, thicker, cream-liquid version of peroxide since that is designed specifically for hair, its why stylists check your head for cuts or marks before colouring because it can result in a chemical burn, which ive seen get really nasty. We use 1.5% when toning hair so it really fucks me up seeing stuff about diluting 2-6% in a 1:10 ratio for fkn mouthwash. Goes against all my training lol

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UB-01_Symbiont OP t1_je6utra wrote

Ah, ok. My family has always used it for cleaning wounds, lol

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Fantasy-Chronicle t1_je6v4y5 wrote

You can use better more gentle things that are specifically designed for direct application imo. Again im biased since i was trained to use it with hair and they drill into you the effects of it, so id have a hard time being convinced otherwise regardless 😅

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Brian-Kellett t1_je7fcwr wrote

Only use water to clean wounds. It’s the force you clean it with, not the substance that you wash it with. It’s why I used to wash down massive leg ulcers with buckets of tap water. There is loads of research to back this up.

Source: ex-nurse with wound specialism training

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