DIY disinfectant what can i use?

[bimble]

very minor injury but can't find in house any of the stuff like savlon or iodine or whatever which i am sure i had and do not want to do a special trip to town.
Vinegar? alcohol? toilet cleaner?
internet seems to be hippies talking about lavender oil which nope.

 

[A380]

Fire?

Or just lots of soap and water.

 

[story]

What’s the injury?


Salt water is good. Clean alcohol like vodka or gin would work too but it will hurt.

 

[kittyP]

Boiling water in a cup with loads of salt dissolved in it.
Wait til cool enough and either dip or apply with a clean cloth/cotton wool depending on the wound, you don't want to get any fabric/cotton in it

 

[bimble]

good idea salt water
a fingercut not a big one, came from garden.

 

[JimW]

Another vote for salt water. Hence also decent mouthwash.

 

[story]

good idea salt water
a fingercut not a big one, came from garden.

Soap and water then. And run the water across the wound to flush it.

Let it bleed, that will flush it too.

Then if you still want to disinfect it, do what kittyP says.

 

[JimW]

Alternatively heat a poker and cauterize. Then apply the leeches.

 

[story]

Alternatively heat a poker and cauterize. Then apply the leeches.

No leeches necessary after cauterisation.

 

[JimW]

No leeches necessary after cauterisation.

Just straight to applying the tar?

 

[JimW]

Double post, grr.

 

[bimble]

quite interesting, because the word just popped into my head.

Poultices: the moist cure-all that came to a sticky end

Made from linseed, flour or mustard, they were prescribed for all types of ailments

www.irishtimes.com

 

[story]

quite interesting, because the word just popped into my head.

Poultices: the moist cure-all that came to a sticky end

Made from linseed, flour or mustard, they were prescribed for all types of ailments

www.irishtimes.com

Poultice you mean?


Yeah, they went out of use but they’re incredibly healing and soothing. Need to be used in the right circumstances though. Like anything else, they can cause harm if used wrongly. A lot of old medical knowledge was lost as modern mediocre came to the fore.
People would grow up learning how to manage a fever or make&use a poultice or plaister because that’s what was generally done, so they’d see it and experience it themselves and then do it in their turn in adulthood.

We kinda threw the baby out with the bath water with a lot of this stuf. Some of it is being re-evaluated. Like leeches for example.

Those poultice recipes are quite specific bimble. How to make and use a poultice is actually pretty open. I learned about mouldy bread poultices for a boil from an old Irish woman. For the penicillin /antibiotic properties, although she didn’t know that. Also bread is starchy so it draws out the pus.

ETA
Ive had the time to read that article more closely now. just took a brief glimpse earlier. It has some good and interesting information in it, and more broad than I’d first thought. Thanks for posting it bimble


For the avoidance of doubt I am not peddling anything here. Not pushing or advocating anything. I am not making dangerous suggestions. Nothing I’ve said here is snake oil. Everything I’ve said here is supportable in science. If you think otherwise please take it up with me honestly rather than making judgmental assumptions about me. Thanks,

 

[DaveCinzano]

No leeches necessary after cauterisation.

They're more of an amuse bouche

 

[moochedit]

Amputate your arm before the infection spreads. You'll need a saw.

 

[spitfire]

Amputate your arm before the infection spreads. You'll need a saw.

Don't be ridiculous, I'm sure bimble has secaturs, she only needs to lop off the finger.

 

[moochedit]

Don't be ridiculous, I'm sure bimble has secaturs, she only needs to lop off the finger.

I was just being cautious.

 

[Rebelda]

Yep, boiled water with salt to get it clean. Your body will do the rest

Do you think soil got in there? If so you might need to get yourself along for a tetanus booster.

 

[bimble]

it looks clean, any soil is out and its already gone quiet so i think all is well. will hold off on the amputations.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

check the date of your tetanus jab....a very unlikely scenario, but a friend was sad because a friend of his is currently in an induced coma due to tetanus and it got me thinking that it´s probably 12 years since my last one, and I´m probably due a booster...I will ask the doctor when I go in for my routine visit in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Alternatively heat a poker and cauterize. Then apply the leeches.

Beans Leeches first!!!!111!

 

[JimW]

I squashed a toe the other week in a silly electric trike incident and went for a tetanus booster just in case.

 

[Sue]

check the date of your tetanus jab....a very unlikely scenario, but a friend was sad because a friend of his is currently in an induced coma due to tetanus and it got me thinking that it´s probably 12 years since my last one, and I´m probably due a booster...I will ask the doctor when I go in for my routine visit in the next couple of weeks.

Awful.

I had a booster a few years ago when I was at the GP about something else entirely and they happened to notice my tetanus jab had been a long time ago. Bit random tbh.

 

[iona]

I should really get a tetanus jab coz I missed the booster you're meant to have in your teens and I'm always cleaning soil and manure and all sorts out of cuts from work, but last time I tried just ended up having a bizarre row with a nurse at my GP practice.

 

[Pickman's model]

What’s the injury?


Salt water is good. Clean alcohol like vodka or gin would work too but it will hurt.

yeh but you can down a slug of it and then the momentary discomfort won't feel so bad

 

[Pickman's model]

I should really get a tetanus jab coz I missed the booster you're meant to have in your teens and I'm always cleaning soil and manure and all sorts out of cuts from work, but last time I tried just ended up having a bizarre row with a nurse at my GP practice.

was it a row related to the nhs or was it something else, eg best south coast football team?

 

[Pickman's model]

it looks clean, any soil is out and its already gone quiet so i think all is well. will hold off on the amputations.

best to operate now

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't be ridiculous, I'm sure bimble has secaturs, she only needs to lop off the finger.

do the wrist to prevent anything spreading to other fingers

 

[Sue]

I should really get a tetanus jab coz I missed the booster you're meant to have in your teens and I'm always cleaning soil and manure and all sorts out of cuts from work, but last time I tried just ended up having a bizarre row with a nurse at my GP practice.

Sounds like you defo need one too.

 

[iona]

was it a row related to the nhs or was it something else, eg best south coast football team?

She asked what other vaccinations I wanted out of the stuff I'd missed but refused to give any information or advice as to what I could/should still have and apparently just expected me to choose based on what I liked the sound of. Also I had to work out my age rather than knowing it the second she asked, which was enough of a problem for her to mention it in her notes after the appt.