Fell down and my skin ripped off totally, HELP!!!?!
Question:
Fell down and my skin ripped off totally, HELP!!!?
About 2 days ago. I fell down and knocked my leg really hard on the door. I mean below the door. The skin on my foot just rip off about 1cm long and 0.3cm wide. The thing is that my 1st layer of skin is totally gone. I can see my second layer skin. No pain at the moment coz there is no skin to send impulse to my brain..
Just about 1-2 minutes later it started to bleed. I feel like going to go fainted after about 5-8 minutes, so i decided to drink some water. It helped.
And now (2days later) some scab formed on the wound.
The problem is that i find it hard to walk. My skin around the wound is getting alittle red and it feels like there is something inside the skin(alittlebit hot). Blood most probably.
I think my blood vessel on my 1st layer of skin is cut off and blood is flowing through out the space between my 2 layer of skin.
It feels like something is going to burst out from my skin thround the wound..
Does any1 get into this trouble before?.. what to do?
Help me ASAP =(
Answers:
ok it's getting mildly infected. get some neosporin (or any topical antibiotic ointment) and apply to the wound. wrap the wound in some nice sterile dressing. take some ibuprofen and relax. you're not going to bleed to death and your leg most likely won't fall off.
and btw, acetaminophen (tylenol) will do nothing for the swelling or infection. and be worried about any doctor that can't spell advil or tylenol.