Do you often hear this in your daily life:
"Your finger is injured, put it in your mouth and suck it."
"I heard that saliva can be disinfected, but it works."
I don't know when it started. If our fingers or other parts are injured, we will subconsciously put them in our mouths and lick them, thinking that this can disinfect and sterilize them, which is conducive to preventing wound infection.
So the problem is coming! Does saliva really have this effect? Can saliva sterilize and disinfect and prevent infection?
With this question,
Let’s take a look at what the doctor said!
If your finger is injured, you will subconsciously put it in your mouth and lick it, thinking that this can disinfect and sterilize it. In fact, this method is wrong.
First of all, the main function of saliva is to moisten food to help the formation of food balls, promote swallowing, protect the oral mucosa from mechanical damage, and play a preliminary role in digesting food through the presence of amylase and other enzymes.
Secondly, the oral cavity is one of the areas in which the human body has the most species of microorganisms, and the density is the highest. Oral microorganisms include bacteria, fungi and bacteria, among which bacteria are the main ones. These microorganisms are customized to pull each other in the oral cavity, interdependent and cohabit peacefully. Once it leaves the colonization site, pathogenicity may occur. It even aggravates wound infection, so no matter the size and depth of the wound. All must be processed in a timely and correct manner.
Treatment of wounds is actually not just about disinfection
We must know that wound healing is not just about disinfection and sterilization.
While preventing infection, the wound and surroundings should be kept clean. When treating the wound, the wound should be cleaned correctly according to the nature and location of the wound to reduce secondary injuries. When bandaging the wound, the appropriate size, clean and comfortable dressing should be correctly selected. In addition, it is best not to be pressed or stick too tightly to avoid hindering blood circulation.
If the wound has symptoms such as watery exudates, rot, odor, bleeding and suppuration, or long-term failure to heal, you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time; if you have shortness of breath, fever and high fever, palpitations, palpitations, accelerated pulse rate, headache and nausea, or the wound has not healed for a long time, you should go to the nearby hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
