mepilex dressing is also good,
keep the wound covered!
that’s the advice I would say.
Also my pharmacist friend said the same thing to me. She’s looking into the effectiveness of manuka honey in wound dressings, her research seems to show that it has amazing healing properties. Be careful as her tests show that some supermarket manuka honey has hardly any manuka in it, so don’t go spreading it on.
anyway I came off on the road doing 15-20 mph and had road rash, was horrible, used mepilex dressings, replaced and cleaned the wound regulary, kept the wound covered for maybe 2 weeks until new skin formed without scabbing and scarring.
much quicker healing and there’s none of that breaking the scab and it bleeding business. The advice of leave open to air seems to very wrong.