How Can I Speed Up the Healing Process of Slow-to-Heal Wounds?

In daily life, we inevitably suffer from external injuries. After being injured, many people may find that their wounds heal slowly. Although there are many reasons for slow wound healing, there are also methods to promote wound healing. Different patients can choose to take oral anti-inflammatory drugs, supplement nutrition, care for the wound, or seek medical advice and inject insulin to promote wound healing based on their own conditions.

1. Oral anti-inflammatory drugs. If the wound has not healed for a long time and recovery is slow, it may be due to infection. The elderly or children have poor physical resistance and are most susceptible to infection after injury. It is recommended to take some anti-inflammatory drugs or go to the hospital for anti-inflammatory injection, which can promote wound healing.

2. Supplement nutrition. Poor eating habits and unbalanced nutrient intake can affect cell regeneration and lead to slow wound healing. Therefore, patients should pay attention to supplementing nutrition, eating more protein-rich foods such as eggs and fish, and avoiding spicy and stimulating foods.

3. Basic treatment. Use physiological saline to clean the wound, remove debris from the wound with a cotton swab, and then disinfect and bandage it. If the wound is deep, go to the hospital for disinfection, suturing, and bandaging after stopping the bleeding.

4. Timely dressing change. Ordinary wounds require routine disinfection and dressing change. If the wound is large, it needs to be disinfected, dressed, bandaged, and antibiotics taken or injected to prevent infection. If there is a lot of wound exudate, drainage treatment is needed.

5. Avoid getting water on the wound. If water gets on the wound, the recovery speed will slow down. Therefore, avoid getting water on the wound after injury.

6. Inject insulin. Diabetic patients are prone to infection and slow wound healing due to their physical conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to inject insulin appropriately. Severe diabetic patients should be alert to the occurrence of diabetic syndrome.

1. Malnutrition. Malnourished patients have weak resistance and poor wound healing ability. Patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and tuberculosis are mostly malnourished and have weak resistance, which will also affect wound healing. Especially for patients with tumors who have undergone chemotherapy or targeted therapy, the treatment is extremely harmful to the body, leading to weakness and low resistance. At this time, the healing speed of some wounds will also slow down.

2. Wound infection. Wound infection is the most common reason for slow wound healing. Some small traumas are easily infected by bacteria if not treated in time. Common bacteria include Escherichia coli and Streptococcus, and severe cases may also be infected by fungi. It is necessary to be vigilant.

3. Foreign bodies in the wound. If the wound is caused by rusty nails, glass debris, sand and stones, there may be rust, glass debris, small stones and other foreign bodies remaining in the body. The presence of foreign bodies will affect wound healing. If there is no abnormality visible to the naked eye, but the wound has not improved after repeated treatment and even further redness, swelling, and suppuration occur, it is necessary to consider whether there are foreign bodies in the wound and seek timely medical attention.

4. Granulation edema. This reason is not common, mostly due to irregular and unhygienic instruments and operations used during wound treatment, leading to granulation edema of the wound. The edematous granulation is pale white or pale red, with more secretions adhering to the skin, which slows down wound healing. This symptom is obvious and needs to be properly treated by professional medical staff.