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Looks good. That is granulating nicely.
I'd have avoided the antibiotics. If you are young, healthy and up to date with your jabs give your body a chance to heal itself.
We are too quick to jump on the antibiotic wagon and that will be our downfall as resistance builds and we all die of bad stuff.
Source: am charge nurse.
Of course you wouldn't have fallen off in the first place if you'd been on a modern bike with a less flexy back end 😉
it is gooey. I support ScienceOfficer's view but if you're not 'in the trade' I'd recommend going to minor injuries to get it cleaned up professionally and dressed properly. Sure, on the whole you're likely to continue to heal. But the alternative is not nice. Not nice at all.
What Olly said.
What you have now is serum which is fine the gunk you had yesterday isn't.
mountain biking is probably one of those activities that getting medical advice on a wound may be especially important - fell over running in Greno' woods about 15years ago and picked up necrotising fasciitis in my elbow, saved (just) by quick surgery to remove infected tissue
lucky was spotted early following an x-ray review - asked the Consultant why they had reviewed the x-ray with medical students next day - answer was the bug responsible lives in leaf mould and horse crap - notes said been running in woodland and must have gone down hard enough to possibly get stuff into wound if needed an X-ray
a road cyclist here not so lucky:
[url] https://rideonmagazine.com.au/the-hard-road/ [/url]
Of course you wouldn't have fallen off in the first place if you'd been on a modern bike with a less flexy back end
I have many excuses, another person crashing taking me off my line etc, none of them to do with me running out of talent 😀
Gofasterstripes you gash was way gnarlier than mine, I'm assuming that shot was of it fresh, you can see the bruising and some deep bits.
Thanks all for the advice, it is food for thought - I'm trying to find my records to see if I need a tetanus booster, etc. I am now significantly healed and need to get off my arse and do some more riding really.
Glad to hear you're mending dude.
That hand was the result of ricocheting off a very dirty, [url= https://www.google.nl/maps/place/London+Borough+of+Bromley,+UK/ @51.3792848,0.0425469,3a,60y,155.33h,67.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1su4XrQnKyhUVwkMybg1Y6NA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Du4XrQnKyhUVwkMybg1Y6NA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D134.64075%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d8aade0f2c8551:0x40eae2da2ec6970!8m2!3d51.3679705!4d0.070062!6m1!1e1?hl=en]wet and very rough A21[/url] before taking a bus to the chest at 25mph.
Still, I wasn't late for work that day 🙂
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Tropical wounds are fun. I scratched a mozzy bite. It scabbed over I may have picked said scab, a week later walking through the canteen at work, showed nurse my weird looking wound who then marched me up to the infirmary to cut away at it as it had started ulcerating and why had in left it so long, if I wasn't careful I would have to go to hospital. It was the size if a. 5p, burnt as if it was a on fire though.