While honey is known for its sweet, savory taste, it is also very famous for its germ-fighting capabilities, healing wounds, and treating sickness. One special kind of honey has is known to be most efficient in medicine and treatment, and this is called the Manuka Honey. The Manuka honey is harvested by bees from the […]

We all know what honey is. Perhaps you have it in your meal every day, or perhaps you’ve heard of it from our childhood cartoon, Winnie the Pooh. If you’ve tasted honey, you probably love it like our anthropomorphic bear does. No one can deny honey for its sweetness, and how it melts in your […]

Yarrow is historically known for its medical properties. It’s very beneficial that even people called it the cure-all herbs medicine for children. Yarrow itself is a long-stemmed member of the sunflower family found in the wild mostly in the northern part of Hemisphere. Yes, for those who live in Asia, they might not know this […]

After a surgery you may have stitches as the method to close your surgical wounds. Some people feel that the stitches are bothers for them. The reasons are they feel sick of taking care the stitches or they experience an normal healing reaction such as an itching stitch. Another reason (although it is less important), […]

Stitches have many advantages once they are used to close the surgical wounds,  stitches can stop profuse bleeding and hold the opposing edges of skin for proper healing. Stitches also help the cuts to heal with minimal scarring, also preventing the wound to become infected. On the other side, this kind of closure also comes […]

An surgical wounds is a cut through the skin that is made during surgery and one of the closure methods is the surgical stitch. Sometimes an surgical stitch breaks open, it may be broken along the entire cut ( the surgical wound) or just part of it. This article will discuss what we can do […]

A surgical wound —also known as  an “incision” , is a cut in the skin made by a surgical instrument called a scalpel during the surgery. Just as there are some methods to create surgical wounds, there are also some methods to close them. With a guide from the professionals, people can choose what method […]

A surgical wound is the cut made into the skin by the surgeon during an operation.  Upon the completion of the operation, the wound is stitched or glued to close the skin edges and let it heal.  In surgery, the surgeon uses sutures, staples, tissue glue, or tape strips to close the incision. As the […]

There are various kinds of wound dressings that are effective for certain types of wounds. Hydrocolloid dressings is one of those. This type of wound dressing has been available for years and used widely for various kinds of wound. However, many people are not aware of how this type of helpful wound dressing is used. […]