What to do if your child's face is scratched

We all know that children's skin is particularly sensitive and fragile, and it is also prone to problems. Children are lively and active by nature. Scratching a child's face is also a common phenomenon among children. Mothers are always worried when such symptoms occur, fearing that scars will be left on their children's faces. However, as long as timely treatment is carried out, such a phenomenon can be avoided. Let's learn about what to do if a child's face is scratched?

What to do if your child's face is scratched

1. Pay attention to prevent infection. This requires that the wound should not be exposed to water. When washing your face in the morning, you can use a wet towel to wipe the areas without scratches, but do not let water touch the scars to avoid infection and affect wound healing.

2. Do not use facial cleanser or other cleaning products. Whether it is facial cleanser or other cleaning products, there are chemical ingredients in them to varying degrees, which will affect the healing of wounds and even have adverse effects on wounds. Therefore, try not to use these things before the scars heal.

3. Do not touch it with your hands. Because the scar is on the face, you can't help but look for shadows and then touch the scar with your hands. This is not advisable. There are many bacteria and viruses on the hands that will remain on the scar through touch, causing infection or affecting the natural healing of the wound.

4Clean the wound. If the scar is deep, you need to find a professional medical staff to clean the wound, stop bleeding, bandage it, etc. Do not use unsterilized instruments to handle it at home. If it is left with a scar, you will regret it.

5 Band-Aids. Band-Aids not only protect scars from the influence of adverse external environments, but now there are medicated Band-Aids that can make wounds heal faster, so small scars can also be treated with Band-Aids in time.

6. Apply ice to reduce swelling. If there is swelling around the scratch, you can apply ice cubes to the swollen area to reduce the swelling.

7. Heal naturally. If the wound is not big, it can heal naturally because the cells in the skin have a strong regenerative ability and the wound will soon form a scab. However, you must not peel off the scab with your hands, otherwise it will leave scars and affect your appearance.

Precautions

Pay attention to the disinfection and cleaning of the wound, and do not touch the wound with unsterilized instruments or hands.

The above is an introduction to what to do if a child’s face is scratched. Through the above content, we know that if a child’s face is scratched, anti-inflammatory measures must be taken in time, because sometimes the growth of bacteria may cause inflammation of the wound on the face, which will cause a lot of pain to the child, and may leave scars if you are not careful, so we must pay great attention to it.