How to treat gooey gash?

Had a tumble when riding at the weekend and now elbow looks like the below.

Some people here must have a fair bit of experience with wounds, whats the best way of helping this kind of thing heal?

What I’ve been doing so far is periodically cleaning as much as I can bear with surgical spirit applying a bit of savlon and keeping covered with mepore.

Looking online apparently a bit of yellow stuff is a good thing as it keeps the wound moist which helps healing. But I am not sure if it is infected or not, there is not much pain, swelling is fairly minor and the area around the wound is not particularly red but it is just I appear to have a very significant amount of yellow goo.

I’ll be dammed if I actually have to go to the doctor for such a minor injury.

Argh, strangely I can’t stop looking at your gooey gash!!

Have done similar to myself before (on multiple occasions sadly, always my right elbow though) the yellow gooey stuff will go on to form a scab if you leave it open to air – or at least mine did

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocolloid_dressing Works for me

That’s pretty manky looks like you’re also showing signs of cellulitis, minor injuries will sort that out.

Your gash does look really quite icky. That’s a lot of yellow goop.

I think I would going to get it looked at by a nurse at least nhs drop in/minor injuries unit. If nothing else to get it well dressed and thoroughly cleaned.

Make a round of soldiers and dip them in. I reckon about a slice and a half’s worth will be enough to use it all up.

Get yourself to a minor injuries clinic or Health centre (ring your GP and they’ll be able to direct you. (You don’t need A&E)

have you had a tetanus recently?

How to treat gooey gash?

An antibiotic of some sort I would think, but probably best to seek medical advice. I believe there are anonymous walk in clinics for this sort of thing.

ENP wife says get to MIU.

I’ll be dammed if I actually have to go to the doctor for such a minor injury.

It is far better to wait and take in a properly interesting case of manly gangrene.

No body said Canesten, standards are slipping

absolutely **** gross. warning in thread title plz!

Had something similar, smothered, and I mean smothered it in savlon. It hurt like a beast but it drew out all the mankiness.

FTFY

Hydrocolloidal dressings are good but that one might be a bit far down the line. Get a rat to lick the goo off and dip it in a hot tub. Cured.

I think two serious and informed replies have given you the Minor Injuries Clinic answer. I’d follow that advice!

I’d always wondered how this stuff was made…

Make a sponge and invite some friends round for tea.

or maggot therapy

Maybe you could combine the two? You have quite a few options here.

Does he dip the rat in the hot tub or the gooey gash or both?

That needs a better clean and some antibiotics. IAAD

Yellow goo = more than likely infected.
Either wait for it fall off or go get it scrubbed and properly dressed by the nice nurses at a miu

Dip the lot, belt and braces.

What would Stoner do?

Wire brush and Dettol.

For those kind of abrasions I normally dowse the area in TCP spray on plaster. It hurts like a motherf but will kill minor infections and protect the wound.

That one looks a bit far gone though I’d be off to MIU with it to check its not too badly infected

Just NO!

You could try dipping it in hot tar 🙂

Sloppy seconds?

Looks alright to me that.
The yellow stuff is a mixture of serous fluid and white blood cells, if it was green or if you developed an obvious reddening around the wound, or felt a bit feverish or under the weather I would be more concerned.

Try not to disturb the moist gloopy layer over the wound; that’s where the healing is going on.

You could leave it open and it should scab, but you can help it to heal by using a dressing like Tegaderm or some other semi-permeable thing.

*This is advice based on a photo, follow it if you want to…*

Thought yellow goo was one of the signs of cat aids. No?

If you’re not going to a doctor / walk-in, hydrocolloid dressing is what you need.

This thread just reminded me to take my antibiotics thanks!

Get down the vets and grab a tin of this stuff. 🙂

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I’ll be dammed if I actually have to go to the doctor for such a minor injury.

Then get to the minor injuries unit, I think they deal in minor injuries.

What would Stoner do?

Amputate

I think with that level of goo I’d follow the advice to go to minor injuries.

Especially as a doctor has advised that above, and I’ve once had a proper infection and had it blasted (very sucessfully) with 2 or 3 antibiotics and some other drugs – I think I was on 20-30 tablets a day for a week – it was not good though, you don’t want to let it get to that stage (mine was just an insect bite in February!).

I tend to let them breathe as much as possible, which I find is better for avoiding things getting gooey (although might not be possible if you’re wearing shirts and stuff).

That goop is blood serum, dead cells and all the waste from the healing process, but it’s got quite a green hue, suggesting you might be culturing something other than new cells. Your actual flesh doesn’t look, or sound (from your description) infected, but it could move that direction fairly soon if you leave the muck to Stew.

I’d be cleaning the goo off, giving it a good clean and re-dressing with some antiseptic, keeping an eye and re-dressing regularly. I’d not be seeking proper medical help whilst I could undertake the same basic stuff as they would.

hydrocolloid dressing is what you need

although keep an eye on your wound – turns out I have a reaction to these dressings and end up with a nasty rash and dry skin (where the wound isn’t) and intense itching where it is.

Get hold of some contact lens sterilising fluid, the stuff that needs a neutraliser, not the single pack stuff.
It hydrogen peroxide based, so it’s really clean that up. It’ll fizz like fury and hurt like a bastard, mind!
Caveat: IANAD, 😉

Well?

I’m guessing you were a bit shy on the man points when you cleaned it up