Can you sterilize your own alcohol at home after armpit surgery?

Disinfection with ethanol is 75% alcohol, not that the higher the concentration of disinfection the better, anhydrous ethanol can kill tissue, but not disinfection. Pure ethanol can not be used indiscriminately, if too much, it may lead to necrosis of the tissue around the wound, will leave a scar. Once or twice is nothing to worry about, it will recover on its own, but it cannot be sterilized.

By the way, about the wound treatment:

If the accidental injury, such as the wound is not big, you can do the following treatment:

1, for superficial wounds, such as small cuts, skin abrasions, you can use iodine skin (non-irritating) to disinfect the wound directly with the skin around the wound surface and the surrounding skin, and then directly cover the wound with a band-aid can be.

If you use alcohol, disinfect the skin around the wound with alcohol first, and then cover the wound with a Band-Aid. Or first use iodine to disinfect the skin around the wound, and then use alcohol to deiodize the effect is better.

2, for slightly larger wounds, you should disinfect the wound, sprinkle some anti-inflammatory powder or Yunnan Baiyao on the wound, use sterile gauze to cover the wound, and use a bandage to wrap it. Check the wound after three days, if it is not infected with pus, then use iodine to disinfect the skin around the wound and wrap it up.

3, on the contaminated wound, or has been infected with pus wound, need to carry out serious debridement treatment, can be dipped in cotton swabs peroxide, saline and other cleaning, and then use iodine to disinfect the skin, for bandaging.

The stab wounds, rust wounds, etc., should be timely tetanus antitoxin to prevent infection.

4, such as bleeding wounds, should first take local pressure to stop bleeding, bleeding stops, and then disinfected bandages.