Minutus

A relative was bitten on nose by a Cavalier King Charles spaniel dog past Saturday.
Knows dog for many years, this was totally unexpected, just sitting next to it on sofa. Dog 8 year old never bit before.
Rushed to ER hospital required 15 stitches and told will need plastic surgery and will have a scar(s) for life.
What remedies are good for scar reduction, wound healing, etc? Topical Arnica?
Thanks!
Susan

Topical Calendula! It's wonderful for scarring, also speeds healing.

I have also found honey to be wonderful for the same purposes; have not really formed an opinion about which I like better, so I use whichever is handy. Smear it on the cut, then put bandage over to keep its stickiness on the wound and away from other things.

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From: "healthyinfo6@aol.com"
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:04 PM
Subject: [Minutus] URGENT! Dog Bites Nose
A relative was bitten on nose by a Cavalier King Charles spaniel dog past Saturday.
Knows dog for many years, this was totally unexpected, just sitting next to it on sofa. Dog 8 year old never bit before.
Rushed to ER hospital required 15 stitches and told will need plastic surgery and will have a scar(s) for life.
What remedies are good for scar reduction, wound healing, etc? Topical Arnica?
Thanks!
Susan

keep the area moist to minimize scarring

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From: Shannon Nelson
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Minutus] URGENT! Dog Bites Nose
Topical Calendula! It's wonderful for scarring, also speeds healing.

I have also found honey to be wonderful for the same purposes; have not really formed an opinion about which I like better, so I use whichever is handy. Smear it on the cut, then put bandage over to keep its stickiness on the wound and away from other things.

Thanks Shannon. The stitches are coming out Friday, then plastic surgery.
Do you know if it will help at each phase of this nose repair?
I think some pieces of nose might be missing so needs plastic surgery to fill that in, maybe from skin grafting.
Susan

Thiosanium (extracted from mustard seed) is good for scarring.

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No, calendula.

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No to topical Arnica. Arnica is fine for the initial shock (which presumably has passed). At this stage your relative needs Calendula internally and externally. You can use topical Calendula ointment on the wound. It would have been ideal to rinse the wound out with Calendula MT in sterile water, but I have a hard time imagining that happening at any hospital of my acquaintance!
This, by the way, is the protocol I followed a few years back when bitten in the face by a horse. No stitches (tissue from a horse bite is too crushed to be stitchable). Just a butterfly bandage. It healed quickly (though the first night I had to be careful about talking so as not to open the wound). Only the teeniest little scar.
Peace,
Dale

Shannon,
Any honey works or raw honey which has live enzymes or Manuka honey also being used as antibiotics?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... rbugs.html
Susan

Yes, honey and/or calendula should help at all phases. Vitamin E is another have used with good result to heal scars, both topical and internal.

Calendula is "bacteriostatic" (stops them from growing) and speeds tissue healing and reduces scarring.
Honey too is antibacterial, and draws the tissues together, which speeds healing and reduces scarring.
Vitamin E reduces scarring, don't know if it has the other effects.

Calendula and honey I think are more specific to the time of healing, and help tissues heal without scarring, whereas vitamin E can also reduce scars which have already formed.

Shannon