Sex, Drugs and Skincare
Comedian and esthetician, Nicky Davis, along with side kick/boyfriend/assistant Sandro Iocolano, interviews comedians, actors and other practitioners as we learn about the latest, as well as the oldest techniques for staying young. We get weird but educational.
Sex, Drugs and Skincare
Wound Care BIG NO-NO’s!!
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• Debunking the use of hydrogen peroxide and alcohol for wound care
• Why butter is not a remedy for burns
• Importance of keeping wounds moist for effective healing
• Understanding the risks associated with scabs
• Signs of infection to look out for in wounds
• The role of nature in wound healing
You are listening to, watching, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling sex, drugs and skincare. Like and subscribe. Hey, welcome back to sex, drugs and skincare. I'm your host, nikki Davis Jr, stand-up esthetician licensed. I'm not even a licensed comedian. You didn't let it lapse, oh man that sucks.
Speaker 2They always do it towards the first of the year. They used to have it where it was on your birthday. You had to get re-licensed. But, now they do it on your second birthday. It's like smog checks.
Speaker 1Oh, every other year.
Speaker 2So it throws you off, because sometimes I forget to celebrate my birthday, because I think it's not a smog year.
Speaker 1It's not a smog year. It's always a smog year when it's always a smog year. Yeah, that's true. By the way. Uh, this is, if you're watching this now, the the fires are still probably in the news. Um, we evacuated our place. It was on our street, kind of like coming down from runyon canyon, but we were lucky in that. Um, we packed up everything that we thought we wanted, which really puts it in perspective, like the things you actually want to take with you.
Speaker 2Turns out nothing.
Speaker 1Yeah, I had a few things.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did, I didn't. I just had the car and you and the cats and my cards.
Speaker 1Yeah. And some papers, some business papers, business papers, your business papers.
Speaker 2Ironically, I left the DVD, the big Lebowski DVD, behind you kept your business papers.
Speaker 1I kept my business papers with the big Lebowski and you stayed out of Malibu.
Speaker 2I stayed out of Malibu. All the deadbeats stayed out of Malibu. Oh, yeah, and then a lot of people they evacuated Malibu because of the fires but a lot of people left because of coffee mugs to forehead injuries.
Speaker 1Yeah, and if you don't know what we're talking about, um watch a movie once in a while and have good taste.
Speaker 2Yeah, come on. Yeah, but we should, we fill? No, let's not fill them in. No, all right, tell them leave.
Speaker 1Okay, maybe we should put it in the bottom, even though I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 2These are big lebowski references yeah, but we won't tell you what it's from though yeah, we don't want you as a listener.
Speaker 1If you don't know what that is, though, yeah, no, we do, we do, we really do. And if you're yeah, just don't tell anybody. Okay, all right yeah um yeah, we packed up, we got in the car, we had the cats into that was good improv, all right I like that instead of saying and senior all right, all right, let's wrap yep, we're done.
Speaker 2Okay, um, packed up the cats.
Speaker 1Pack up the cats we got to uh alhambra. That's right, and the cats fucking hated alhambra. That's right, and the cats fucking hated Alhambra.
Speaker 2They kept meowing about it and yeah.
Speaker 1We took a pee at the Taco Bell, and then we found out that the fires were kind of being contained, so we came back.
Speaker 2Yeah, so we came back and yeah, that was about it. But I mean, the cool thing is that, like using a Taco Bell for a bathroom is probably I have the least amount of stomach, or you know, gastric enterology reflux, you know. Oh, because you came in with I went to the bathroom. I went in there, went to the bathroom. Done you go to the bathroom first, then you don't eat.
Speaker 1Taco Bell, and then you go home and you will have minimal heartburn. That's a great plan.
Speaker 2That's how Taco Bell is. I mean, mean, you know, when I was younger, I used to eat everything. You know I used to. You know, eat rats. I'd find on the side of the road. I would cook them up, cook them up, cook them up, eat them, bring them. You're not gonna need a, a rat. That's, that's a lot of disease. If it's raw, yep right. But I used to taco bell as well, so I know what it's like. But now these days, it's just like I'd rather, I'd rather drive 40 minutes with you full of with the car, full of everything that we we need in our cats, and just take a little excursion, go to taco bell and piss sometimes we've gone.
Speaker 2We've gone five hours. There's this awesome um starbucks over in yosemite that we drive to every couple months we go up there and use the bathroom, and we come right back, yeah right, it's breathtaking because right out the window of this bathroom you can see a clear view of Yosemite, and then you shit and then leave, right, well, I just prefer to look at the parking lot and go. Right, cause you know that it's in Yosemite. You're right. Yeah, it's like nostalgia.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's pretty good. Well, yeah, we just treat ourselves so, whether you're evacuating or not, go out of town and use a bathroom somewhere on a truck stop or go to a cracker barrel and, just you know, use the bathroom. Sit on the rocking chair first, get some momentum, then go to the bathroom and then leave.
Speaker 1There's a rocking chair, cracker barrel.
Speaker 2There is rocking chairs, there's like chess sets, and inside they have a potato, some sort of a potato gravy.
Speaker 1There's chess sets in a cracker barrel. Yeah, that seems ironic.
Speaker 2Well, it's a game of chess, trying to get people into those chairs because they're very, very consumery, you know.
Speaker 1It's like a golden corral, like if they had like a-.
Speaker 2It's a corral, all right yeah.
Speaker 1They had like yeah, yeah, tests for Mensa.
Speaker 2If you were collecting all the people in the world. If you're corralling all the people in the world that have to be on um statins yeah, and cholesterol medication then yeah, you're corralling.
Speaker 1That's the correct, that's the golden corral it's a good place again.
Speaker 2It's a good place to go out of town, use the bathroom at that's really the best part also, if you go to an rei or a bass pro shop, go way out of your way and use the toilet there and then go home why there? Because it's just a place you don't need to go to unless you have to go to the bathroom okay because it's just so far out of your way, you know yeah or go to dick's.
Speaker 1Yeah, go to dick's we have a gift card for dick's. We're gonna have to figure out how to spend it the sporting goods place, right?
Speaker 1yeah, yeah, yeah um, by the way, if you were affected by the fires, um, not to make light of your tragedy, I feel terrible and our hearts are with you. It's almost too much to even like to think about in more than any. You know, I can't even like rest my mind on it for even a second, because it's just too devastating. I've even seen the pictures of some of the places that we've been before and it doesn't even nothing looks the same. Our area, ironically, looks pretty much exactly the same.
Speaker 2It looks better it looks better they've trimmed out some of the trees up top and stuff.
Speaker 2But but, um, enough making light about this, let's, let's get dark, okay. Um, yeah, it's, it's mind-blowing because it's just natural. It's, whether it's caused by a person or whatever, it's a natural thing that just keeps happening. And then the wind is like hey, we're also nature. What do you want us to do about it? Right, we don't, we don't know, and it doesn't even have that thought, amazingly enough. So it's just something you have to kind of just, um, you know, try to like, I guess, figure out, like how are you going to proceed with it? Because you can't stop it, you can't stop the, you can't stop the nature from happening. That's what I heard on a on a weatherology, weatherology billboard whether I didn't realize there were such things well, meteorologists have nothing to do with meteors, so I think weatherologist makes more sense.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah, I, I did. I didn't get, I didn't let my license lapse this year.
Speaker 1I know what I'm talking about I think they should have declined it. But yeah, no, I didn't say laughs, I said laps. Oh yeah people are.
Speaker 2People are laughing in the other room, but they're laughing at me, not with me well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1Alex said he's laughing with me. Okay, well, if you're laughing at me with, with you, that's fine yeah because then it just all gets funneled back to me honestly, I don't even care anymore If as long as there's laughing. I just assume it's for me and I'm going to take it the way I want to take it.
Speaker 2I'm so glad you said that, because I agree with you and I don't even know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1That's such a good yes and yes. And what are we even talking about? Oh yeah, and I didn't even hear you. And come on, let's stop. Yeah, yeah uh I uh our guest.
Speaker 2Oh sorry, go ahead no, please look, I'm excited for our guest yeah, yesterday, um he just he couldn't make it uh uh, our guest today is going to be getting up in seven minutes to put more money in the meter. Um, this person is uh, I'll be honest, the first time I saw them today they were wearing a maroon shirt and, uh, kind of like a like a like a gray windbreaker right and I was like blue, but it should be.
Speaker 1This is, this is not, this is. Oh, my god, we've had this conversation alex, what color is this? Put in the comments what color you think that is. It's blue. Right, it is a blue.
Speaker 2You're colorblind it's a bluish. Yeah, oh my god, see more.
Speaker 1It is a bluish. Yeah, oh my God, see More. Men are colorblind than women.
Speaker 2And what did I say? Gray See, he's right.
Speaker 1He's not right, he's colorblind, oh wow. So it's more it's more blue than it is gray.
Speaker 2It's more blue than it is gray, but it's more purple than it is blue.
Speaker 1That exactly. Yeah, see, yeah, so he agrees with me. Anyways, our guest today was going to be chris delia, and I invited him on the show just so we could cancel on him in last minute, um, but then he was going to show up yeah so we had to cancel on him it was a big, it was a whole thing it turns out we didn't have the right uh brand of moose.
Speaker 2Uh, he's very, very moose specific he's into moose moose, not even I mean not the hair product no, it's a hair product made from the animal moose and also that character that movie named moose the character?
Speaker 1I don't know okay, but uh.
Speaker 2But yeah, he's not going to be here today, but you know um I'm looking forward to I think I think I just unfollowed him, you just now unfollowed him when, like right before the show. No, I don't even I don't think I ever did fall. No, I don't. Here's the thing. I might have followed him, but I never got him. Um, anyways, we're spending too much time.
Speaker 1He's gonna blow up I'm trying to make this edgy so that someone will hate me enough to follow me and then unfollow me that's a good way to be?
Speaker 2I think so. Yeah, you just throw out that's what people do hate speech. I think people who are hateful just throw it out there because they're not full of hatred. But then they're like yeah, I hate that too. And they're like okay, maybe this will catch on. And then like they'll like oh, I'll use this bad power for good one day. And then they end up becoming president again speaking of the color orange um I love your shoes thank you very much.
Speaker 1It's also my favorite tv show that I watched for one season on netflix, the color orange was that is the new black color, orange is new. Will you hand me that little water over there? Is that yours or mine? Can we share the little? Um, I don't want to open up two plastic bottles. No, no, no, I don't. I actually don't want. Uh, I want the micro amount of micro plastics in my microplastic that's the one thing people can tell you.
Speaker 2The smaller bottles I did have another one, but take, I'm eventually gonna oh, this is perfect.
Speaker 1This is just the amount I wanted.
Speaker 2Oh, it's almost too much, you know. What's funny is, I think that maybe there was a point in time in human culture where that was the serving size for water, just like the serving size for food was like this. And then you go to the golden corral and the soothing side, the soothing toys for food is like this, but there's no water.
Speaker 1But the toilets are like this yeah the toilets are like this.
Speaker 2The only the only place there's water in the golden corral is the toilets did you know that even the even the, the, even the faucets in the restaurant, in the, in the bathroom or ranch and there's a pudding bar in there.
Speaker 1There's a pudding bar 24 7 that's right.
Speaker 2People like oh, it's pudding and it's like no, because it's poop. People that people it makes it easier if you poop and shit in the same place. People don't know what it is they're like. I just go sit down have another plate right, oh my god, I used to love eating there you did really know well, I mean like, when you're in that mode of having, when you go to that place, you're not like I'm gonna sit down and have a sensible and the food tastes great. No, you, just you inundate yourself I did.
Speaker 1I got anorexic when my dad took me there, uh, and I ate only garbanzo beans where were you when your dad took you arkansas? Obviously, there you go, yeah everybody who walked in there and I say walked loosely, they all were wheeled in. They're good people. They were in wheelchairs with oxygen tanks and they didn't anyways, yeah, I've seen that story too.
Speaker 2I was in Orlando, florida, you know, mecca of America, and there's like a Chinese restaurant and what is it?
Speaker 1Oh, spacey Mecca, yeah, oh, that's a good sense of direction you have there.
Speaker 2Yeah, I just assumed it's that direction. Wow, um, you're right. If we face the cameras in the right direction, you'll be right um and I'll be left. But uh, I went to orlando and it was like a thanks, alex it's, and it was in that direction I pointed to so good, it was a restaurant. It's a chinese restaurant and um buffet.
Speaker 2Yeah you know the kind of way you walk up and you put the ingredients down there and they also cook it for you too, like the, the grill. I forgot what it's called, the uh um hibachi grill. Maybe, okay, is it? Maybe I'm thinking of um, like benihana, kind of thing, kind of thing, but you like they cooked it there, then you walked off with your food right, it wasn't like right in the middle of the restaurant, like it's like an omelet bar, but you bring your Exactly.
Speaker 2Okay, you bring your own omelets, you cook this omelet for me. You eat omelets around here it's an omelet bar, so I sat down and we're eating food or whatever, and there's a table where there's two very, very large people with oxygen tanks eating food. And then they had three children and when they were finished eating they would pass the empty plates to their kids and they would say unironically and you, um, uh, go get your daddy some more food or go get your mama some more food, just like that. And I sat there eating, just shoved my face going.
Speaker 2That's disgusting, and I just kept filling up, just judging when you're in that when you're in that mode eating buffets, you're like you don't go in there, like you go in there and you expect to leave going. Oh man, that was terrible, that was a bad idea. For some reason I don't know why it's like you think you're doing something yeah, you got away with something. Yeah, you got all that food say we tricked me while they're in the back. You know cooking it with like you know. Uh, garbage, just cooking it with like you know. Garbage, just cooking it with garbage. I lost my improv.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's a good. That's another good improv. I lost my improv.
Speaker 2My improv evacuated, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Well it's a good clap, okay, so Hold on, nikki. What's today's show about? It's so interesting that you should ask me that, because I want to try to make this apropos to something and I was really kind of hoping to have a guest, because I'm going to really need you to help me make this funnier, because normally it's like me and I'm you know, I'm I'm sort of I slide between mildly funny and an esthetician, and then we've got you making the commentary and then the guest who's asking questions, who is also funny, in the cross talk and everything. So now it's just me just giving information.
Speaker 2Yeah, I always thought the guest got in the way. Why Come on?
Speaker 1The subject is common misconceptions about wound care. Okay, you don't seem impressed, I'm impressed.
Speaker 2I'm just wondering there's. So there's common misconceptions yes, what are the? Uncommon misconceptions of wound care that's a really good point, see, like that's that. It begs to differ. It begs the question what is the other side of it, you know?
Speaker 1yeah, well, maybe you could come up with some of your own, okay, so let's go with the ones that we know of, yes, and then I'll just I'll think of the opposite Question what is the other side of it? You know? Yeah, well, maybe you could come up with some of your own, okay, so let's go with the ones that we know of.
Speaker 2Yes, and then I'll just I'll think of the opposite. Yes, for reference in my head.
First Aid Myths and Realities
Speaker 1Yeah, we need you to be funny on this episode. So, oh, sorry, I mean to touch you. No, it's okay, that's just where sandwich earlier. Okay, I did Son of a gun, all right, so one of them okay. Number one is that you use rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide. I don't know when you, I mean, I know when you grew up. But when I grew up Alex, are you saying the same thing we were told to put Drink it. Yeah, just drink it by the pint.
Speaker 2You mix them together. And it was called a? Uh. What was it called an emergency car bomb? Yes, instead of like mixing the drinks together, you know, the beer and the guinness or whatever, oh right the pint whatever. Yeah, but um okay yeah.
Speaker 1So apparently, um yeah, it's not good to do that because it ox with the hydrogen peroxide. Um it, it oxidizes it because it releases oxygen into your wound.
Speaker 2Is that what all the bubbling is?
Speaker 1That's what the bubbling is, which is cool. You know what? I'm still going to use it, because sometimes it's just easier to do that than to get an infection if you don't have any other way to clean it. But it's also oxidizing the actual skin around it as well, which is like killing that skin, so you know how we use antioxidants.
Speaker 2That's because we don't want to oxidize hardcore ourselves and oxidize is basically just like kind of breaking it down by oxygen, so like a paint gets oxidized or whatever, like it kind of scrapes, it pulls the layer off of it or whatever, yes exactly. So, and I know that like, yeah, alcohol was like definitely put some alcohol on it if it burns it's.
Speaker 2You're doing good that means it's getting in there, um, and then you and plus sometimes it's so funny you're like you feel the wound, you feel like you're powerful, because you're like, oh, I'm doing something good for myself yeah, you bite on a wooden spoon while somebody pours vodka over your leg yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1You're lucky if it's wooden yeah, like all these, like I grew up with like a lot of lead-based boots.
Speaker 2It was a lot of iron furniture and everything that's dangerous yeah for flatware lead flatware yeah when you have like, when you have plates made of like, you know, like just um slag, you know, from like making, blacksmithing your own plates as a kid.
Speaker 1But no, um, you're a busy kid going. You were making the plates for, uh, for the golden corral. It was, yeah, the pewter prowl. The pewter prowl, I don't know shut up.
Speaker 2But so back to the, the peroxide. Um, I remember hearing something about, like you, if you use it on a wound, it actually will change like the shape of the wound because it's like pulling it back or whatever, so you can actually scar it.
Speaker 1It can actually cause, like it's gonna cause, more scarring more scarring, or like it'll change, like the, the margins of the wound or whatever, and change the healing of it that makes sense, because if you have a wound and it's and this, the flesh is sort of being, you know, oxidized and pulled away for people who are watching this down here.
Speaker 2Nikki's doing something up here and she's doing this which is like the bubbles over here, and if you're listening to this and not watching it, I move my hand up about a foot yeah, and he's wiggling my fingers, which is like the oxygen coming into the thing like this oh my god.
Speaker 1Yeah, all right, here's another one that, um, that I recently. I know now not to do it, but uh, people do it a lot of times and this is appropriate. It's when you get a burn. Have you ever been told to put butter on it? No apparently that's what people do, uh to to make the I don't know, to make the wound heal faster to put butter while it's like right after it happens.
Speaker 2Yeah, putting butter on it. Okay, oh wait. So can we go back for one second? Yeah, I just want to. So instead of putting um alcohol and peroxide on there, what would you do instead?
Speaker 1well, I have a list of other things you could do instead, but, um, as long as you're asking, you're asking as far as, like, what you would apply. Um, you would want to just soap and water oh first yeah, you might want to have to pull it open again, which you with soap and water too and then soap and water it oh, wow right and then, um, and then you're gonna maybe put like some of that triple antibiotic stuff and then like a band-aid but I mean, I just skipped to the end of the whole podcast.
Speaker 1So thank you very much, you guys. I'll see you next week. Oh, okay, cool cool.
Speaker 2Wow, that's, this was incredible, yeah I can't believe that. Yeah, I know all right, well, um, thanks, thanks for coming. Yeah and uh, but I was gonna say it was as a kid, I could only afford double antibiotic. I couldn't get the triple antibiotic stuff yeah and and ironically we had triple a for our cars but not for our wounds?
Speaker 1no, nope. So I'm really sad all right.
Speaker 2So back to what you were saying. I was just curious because you know I was thinking about like some old tricks that I heard as a kid. But we'll get to those later.
Burn Care and Medical Rumors
Speaker 1Okay, well, we can just go one by one. If you know of one, that's actually a good one and I'll tell you if you're wrong. In this case, you would want to. If you have a burn and I had a little burn on my finger the other day from the because I forgot that when you take stuff out of the oven at 450 degrees that you can't actually take it out with your hand- oh yeah that's right yeah.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1So it just was like a little burn on my finger and because I work with my hands, I was kind of panicked. So I just ran it under cold water and then I got a glass of water and I stuck it in there for about 10, 15 minutes. You got to do it quick because the burning will continue to burn as long as you know what I mean, even though you don't see it on the surface. It's just continually going down and burning, especially if it's a bad burn.
Speaker 2So you want to keep it cool at that point. You want to cool it off and make it moist wet. So if you do that with water, then you put your finger in a glass of water, right. Then you go outside with a glass of water, put your finger up on a really windy day. It'll be really, really, really cool against it. Plus, you can just stand there all day long and tell everybody which way the wind is blowing.
Speaker 1You'll know firsthand, or first finger, first finger well, the problem with that is and that's another one- is that? Uh, you don't want your wounds to be completely dry, do you remember? Hearing that it's like keep your wound dry?
Speaker 2yeah, because when it dries it like it starts to heal or whatever. But and keeping it? Uh yeah, that makes sense. Keeping it like moist or whatever, like wet would mean, like that. It's just it takes even that much longer for it to dry, and then no, but it's really.
Speaker 1You're supposed to keep it moist, okay. So the other day, when I had the the, the burnt finger took it out of the water put a band-aid around it. Yeah, I was making vegan sweet potato brownies yeah, it was.
Speaker 2It was worth it. I hear a story every day.
Speaker 1And I put the bandaid on and it didn't hurt. After that I left it on for like two days. I didn't even put anything else on it, but I just kept it moist and it didn't blister or anything. And I saw a line across my finger where it was going to burn. So, if and this is like a very not serious burn- If you've got a major burn.
Speaker 2Definitely major burn isn't that from mash.
Speaker 1I think so? Yeah, then you're watching mash on kttv channel 11 from 1973 that's a specific reference.
Speaker 2Yeah, very nice yeah, um so another good improv, very nice oh yeah, very nice.
Speaker 1Yeah, I like that, and then mine, I like that I like that yeah, um, go to the hospital and have it. Don't do any of what we're saying, except for just temporarily to get you from here to the hospital. Before you can, you need someone else to professionally look at and I'm not a doctor, by the way. Did I mention that.
Speaker 2I don't know, sometimes you forget to say it. I'm not a doctor, okay.
Speaker 1Yeah, and so yeah.
Speaker 2But you did make a MASH reference.
Speaker 1I did make a MASH reference.
Speaker 2Yeah, so you yeah, but you did make a MASH reference. I did make a MASH reference.
Speaker 1Yeah, you're kind of a doctor. Yeah, when you talk about MASH, it does kind of make you a doctor.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2All right, it's on my radar.
Speaker 1Oh, come on, that was not that good.
Speaker 2Thank you, Alex. Alex was telling me he was a clinger back in the day. I was going to say really, yeah, you got you beat me to it.
Speaker 1Now I can't think of any of the other characters, jamie farr, was that his name? Jamie fox, I think it was jamie fox. Jamie fox was in mash. That's what I was thinking jamie farr was in those movies with tom cruise and then p did he poison jamie farr and that's why he had was in a coma, coma for 23 days that's right, because he in he and keaton ivory wins shook hands once.
Speaker 2Wait what I don't know. I just figured that's a great name to say, even though he had nothing to do with any of this stuff. I don't know him personally, so I can tell you 100%.
Speaker 1Well, there's a big rumor right now. Remember when Jamie Foxx got sick?
Speaker 2That P Diddy knew something, or Jamie Foxx knew something. Yep, governor knew something, yeah, governor knew something, yeah, and then impeded. He was like, if you tell shit about me, I'll tell people why you have two x's in the last on your last name, when only one will just do just fine. And yeah, and then he. Then he got, he gave him uh, I think he gave him a severe case of athlete's foot and he had to go to.
Wound Care and Kitchen Stories
Speaker 1He had to go to the hospital yeah, that's our next uh topic, but uh, next week fungus. So he gave him a fungal infection. He gave him the worst fungal infection ever ever. No, he gave I. I don't know really what happened, we don't know, but that's what he's. That's what he's saying, which is very interesting. Go on tiktok for the last couple days before they uh, before they cancel it, and go down that rabbit hole and then try to sleep. It'll never be good luck, you know, you don't think. Tiktok, yeah, no, you don't think.
Speaker 2No, it makes too much money for people here and how are people going to have conspiracy theories? Right and people are going to start what? Here's my thing, if they're, if they do cancel it, they're going to come out with another tiktok. But spell correctly because? Because maybe that's what they want to do, maybe they're like somebody just noticed it's not spelled right. It's almost like oh god, we need to get rid of this is a perfect opportunity to correct the spelling.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, I like that because you can't, because if you do it now, it's rebranding right, right, but now you gotta re-spell it anyways, this has just been a podcast of just open wounds that I there are disguised as jokes branding that are just really hurting yeah, I'm branding all this, yeah but tell me more about um.
Speaker 1um, applying butter might actually make it worse, because I'm assuming it would make it. Probably the butter will heat up, right? What's that Make you?
Speaker 2it will make you tasty?
Speaker 1Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2That sounds delicious. I just watched that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer was uh um shaving with butter and then he was. Then he was sunbathing with butter and he over, he over suntan.
Speaker 1Oh then he was sunbathing with butter, oh my god. And he over, he over suntan.
Speaker 2He's like orange and he's orange, and then, like he starts and he has butter all over him and then he falls into, like he falls into a vat of oregano, and then he gets hit in the face with a bunch of parmesan, and then newman is just staring at him and he, he starts, he wants to eat him well, see, this is what can happen to you if you put butter on it.
Speaker 1Yeah, you don't do that no, it's all. It's all back to seinfeld it always never never doesn't come back to superman yeah, um, okay, so, yeah. So don't use the butter um, is it?
Speaker 2people butter because they think it's like natural and they're like, oh well, I don't know if it seems like such a weird thing that you would use.
Speaker 1I've heard it before, though, too. You know what I heard in kitchens, and I don't know if it really works or not. It's just to throw egg white on it I don't know if that works it's usually like the kitchen staff, so I usually believe anybody who's in the kitchen staff, because they usually have, you know, access to. Uh, you know something their grandmother told them like. You know what I mean yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2my grandmother always said never wash your hands, ever, and make all the food, and that's what she did.
Speaker 1My God. We went to a vegan restaurant the other day and there was only one person working there at the desk. I don't think he was working in the kitchen, though, right?
Speaker 2No, I don't think he was working in the kitchen, but he was still serving the food. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1And we saw him. There was nobody at the desk. We walk in he's. We see that the door's closed.
Speaker 2He's in the bathroom he's in the bathroom, yeah, and then, uh, and then we hear the bathroom motions, but we never hear any running water or anything the like, not even somebody going you know, just to pretend, yeah. And then he came right back out and like, oh, table, table. And then I said smoking please. I made a joke and then that didn't work because I was trying to mask the. I'm like oh, this guy didn't wash his hands yeah and then he just brought off.
Speaker 1We didn't work because I was trying to mask the I'm like, oh, this guy didn't wash his hands, yeah, and then he just brought off. We didn't care. I was like you know what? I'm eating? This food. I'm going to play along, I'm going to play along.
Speaker 2Every country has different cultures.
Speaker 1Every country has different cultures.
Speaker 2Every person has different cultures of bacteria on their hands, and he came out.
Speaker 1That is the truth.
Speaker 2And he came out, yeah, it doesn't really matter, but it was just funny.
Speaker 1It was like oh it, just you did go. You said I wish that I didn't realize, I didn't know that he didn't wash his hands, of course, yeah I did say that, but then I still continue to eat the food yeah and that's second time in a row that we've eaten there and I haven't got indigestion, uh, but it is really good, yeah it was a good place in the valley.
Speaker 1Oh my god, you're telling where it is I know I'm just gonna just cruise the valley until they find it so many valleys all over the country, and then wait until the staff goes into the restroom to see who doesn't wash their hands?
Speaker 2yes, on the off chance that they at least go in there and fake turning on the water, and then you fake taking the paper towels out whenever I go in the bathroom, even if it's just me and the cats in the apartment, I turn the water on so the cats think I wash my hands and then I come out. Yeah, at least do that. But again, maybe he's conserving water. Maybe that little bit of water he used then could be the water to save the life this.
Speaker 1You know what that's really true.
Speaker 2I hadn't even thought about that I know, because it's not a rational thought to have and it's not anything that anybody would have, because it's bullshit. Alex is agreeing yeah, thank you. He said yeah so don't use butter on wounds.
Speaker 1Wash your hands in the bathroom yes, please wash your hands before you serve the food, especially. Yeah, you got served, you got sir oh yeah, you got served ebola, just some mercer on the side. Um, okay, so don't use salt water to cleanse a wound. This surprised me that that's.
Speaker 2That's like the first thing I heard. Uh, warm water, hot water, salt water, like that was.
Speaker 1That's what cleansed everything that's we put in a wound I would think, because I don't really know what the theory is about, why it doesn't work. But my theory is, if you're getting salt water from the ocean, it's going to be polluted no matter where you are. The oceans are polluted, especially at the coast, and so you're going to get some garbage up in your up in your wound literally yeah, so other than that, I mean, I guess it would dry it out a bit, because water salt tends to draw water out of things okay you know.
Speaker 1That's why you put it on eggplant and it draws the water out. Have you? Did you ever see your mom do that?
Speaker 2I don't think so.
Speaker 1No, I don't you brine it it's called brining, and you put the eggplant, you put it in the slices and then you just really salt it and then the water, over the next hour or two or whatever it just like it sweats it out.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1Yeah, so water will cause moisture to come out.
Speaker 2That's why they also use it for, like you know, like medical procedures, to like evacuate bowels and whatnot Speaking you know, like medical procedures, to like evacuate bowels and whatnot. Speaking of evacuations.
Speaker 1Oh salt.
Speaker 2Because salt will actually draw, like pull in moisture to it, oh yeah, which causes a what they call a water park effect. That's what doctors call it.
Speaker 1The water park effect. The water park effect? Yeah, they call it the raging waters. Yes, raging waters. Yeah, I had my what do you call it? My colonoscopy in San Dimas, did you really? No, because it's at Raging Waters.
Speaker 2No, I know, Because I was thinking of what's that movie? Bill and Ted's Sexual Adventure.
Speaker 1Oh, did they go to San.
Speaker 2Dimas.
Speaker 1Yeah, and they went to Raging Waters too. Oh, they did, oh, okay, oh yeah that's right.
Speaker 2You know what You're right about that. Yeah, you're so right about that. I got it wrong about the movie. You're right, shut up.
Speaker 1That's another good one, you're right.
Speaker 2You're right, and then also shut up.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's my favorite. One Another good improv yeah, shut up, and then you just walk out.
Speaker 2Okay, I mean no salt water, no salt water.
Speaker 1You just want to use soap and water for a wound, even with a burn, I would assume you want to use a little bit of, maybe, soap once it stops burning. If it's open, if it's just blistered, I guess you could probably just dress it at that point and keep it moist. Okay, and then also thinking that a topical antibiotic cream is always this says it's, that it's always significantly improves the healing. The truth is is that most wounds benefit from oh well, okay, so you're putting right, okay, because you're putting the topical antibiotic on it that's going to keep it moist, um, and then uh, let's see.
Speaker 2Yeah, but is it basically like, if you put the, is it saying to just keep it moist instead? Because if you keep it moist with the ointment, the ointments basically like it's a petroleum-based? So it blocks it from the from the air that makes sense, so it keeps it moist, but it actually like just you know if it puts it they call the tupperware effect it's in the doctor's journals.
Speaker 1A double effect where you basically lock in the moisture?
Speaker 2I always wondered that though.
Speaker 1Because you are. You're keeping. I mean, I guess you are still keeping the air out, but like, how much antibiotic can actually get into like a? You're not going to put an antibiotic on like an open, gaping wound. Yeah.
Speaker 2I guess it's like in that situation you do it so that at least it blocks it from like maybe initial like infection. Like yeah, If you just need to like put it on there and like you're on the go, right, you know like. You know, like if you're like Wounds on the go, huh, wounds on the go, yeah. Like if you're like Whatever you do for a living you know you go back to just doing that.
Speaker 1Yeah, that makes sense. And then you put a finger condom on there.
Speaker 2Yeah, absolutely. You put a little, little, little little triple A. If you're lucky because some places only have double A, I mentioned, and then you put the triple A on, put it on, then you keep, keep slaughtering pigs.
Speaker 1Wow. Everybody has different jobs, but as long as we keep our wounds moist. Wow, you really ran with the instruction I gave you earlier and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2Oh, of course I'm just filling nonsense.
Speaker 1Okay, so a moist environment is generally better for wound healing, so avoid keeping it dry. Air exposure does not necessarily promote healing, and it can actually slow it down okay and another one is that scabs are always good. That's another misconception, according to, and I forget. Yeah, not always good they're not always good okay um, they're a natural part of healing, do you? Yeah? Yes, alex. Uh inquired whether or not you eat them. Yeah.
Speaker 2They're always good, so like you have to figure out. Yeah, I mean I guess in a pinch. Yeah, in a pinch.
Speaker 1Nice, oh my.
Speaker 2God.
Speaker 1But they can also hinder the process because there are blocking off. I guess they're just blocking off the process and so so it's better to like the tupperware effect again it's got the tupperware effect, so it's better to like keep it moist yep and then gently as you can, without removing any of like the actual, like live baby skin underneath just get some of the scab off okay just gently, though you don't want to rip it off.
Speaker 1It has to be like ready, kind of, to come off, and that's why keeping it moist actually helps, because otherwise you get the big thick scab on top, and then if you pull that off, then there's like just fresh baby skin underneath okay.
Speaker 2So it almost seems like there's like a certain you know method to the way the body is healing itself. Obviously, yeah, but like in nature, does that happen where, like other animals get scabs and they just know instinctively to peel it off?
Speaker 1They lick it though. They lick it though right, they lick their wounds.
Speaker 2Okay, oh yeah.
Speaker 1So you lick your wounds to keep it moist, and then they also have enzymes and stuff in their spit which will probably break down some of the scab.
Speaker 2Right, but we don't, because that's not how we're, because typically animals in the wild, they don't eat as much Taco Bell as we do, so all the enzymes are healing their skin.
Speaker 1I wonder if your mouth was clean enough, if you could do that, because I mean, we do have enzymes in our mouth that help break down the food, because digestion begins in the mouth.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly that's what I'm wondering. I mean, I have no idea how humans are supposed to eat, or still at all.
Speaker 1Definitely, I can vouch for that.
Speaker 2I have no idea. There's no idea. I have some even like, even like, putting it in my mouth.
Speaker 1I'm like is this are you sure this?
Speaker 2is right, um, but I kind of I feel like it's you know, like if we did it like have like a diet that was typically what a human being was made for, whatever it is like, we would probably be able to heal ourselves by licking ourselves, but then, like you, know that doctors don't exist at that point well, and also humans mouths are way dirtier than animals I don't know why, but they are yeah, and humans brush their teeth.
Speaker 1In theory, yeah, yeah, so in theory, exactly, yeah, um, I wanted to mention a couple things about infection. So you know, like, when something is infected and there's something called your, what is it? Uh, can you read it?
Speaker 2uh, erythema, erythema yeah, um erythema, erythema, erythema, okay, erythema which I'm assuming is um.
Speaker 1It's a classical, it's a classic.
Speaker 2It's a classical, it's classic yeah, sign of local infection classic I'm assuming because it has ema in the end of it.
Speaker 1It's probably um, like the swelling you know like oh, yes, like edema, yes right. Um, if your wound is red and swollen, then you've probably, and especially if you touch it. Um, when you push on a wound, if you're touching it and it's not the first day, you might want to get it checked out because it's infected underneath the skin. Right.
Speaker 2Just like the circle around it.
Common Home Remedies and Family Stories
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly, it's usually the circle around it because your skin is trying to send it red blood cells. Your body is rather.
Speaker 2That's disgusting.
Speaker 1A foul odor. Check for foul odors.
Speaker 2On a wound yeah. Okay, what's a foul?
Speaker 1odor. I think you'll know when you smell it. You think so. I think it's one of those, yeah.
Speaker 2My grandmother said the same thing.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You don't know. You'll know when you smell it it's not good.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1My grandmother. Uh well, she never showered or wore deodorant, but she was very good at giving advice. Why do I feel like that's true? It is true, yeah, um heat in the peri wound. So yeah, if the wound is hot, that's again. That's your body trying to like make a little fever in your body to to kill the, uh, the infection.
Speaker 2I have noticed that certain wounds of my hand would be hot if, like I, you know, I had like a cut somewhere, something like that it would feel like yeah, just at a touch it feels even hotter.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2That's crazy.
Speaker 1I still have they're healing now, but the other day our cat, who's like 25 pounds, decided that he was going to, and he's very nimble. He did this on purpose. I think to get my attention he jumped up on the couch and then fell and then took his claw and then sunk it into my leg to get traction to get, yeah, to get traction, but he was hanging all 25 pounds of his body off of my knee to pull you up, to pull himself up, pull himself up, yeah.
Speaker 1So I had like three little um wounds there, so I just cleaned him up. You told me just to like wash him with soap and water, I think maybe I think something like that.
Speaker 2I said alcohol. See, I went back to alcohol.
Speaker 1Oh, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2But that's nuts though, which, by the way. I'm glad he did that, because you never go mountain climbing with him.
Speaker 1No, my God.
Speaker 2He's the worst Because imagine like if you fell on a mountain, he would just.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, are you uh? Are you busy? Did we uh interrupt your um?
Speaker 2you're texting no, no, I have a. I have a question from the producer here, so it's about the show, okay, yeah unbelievable. So, okay, what about toothpaste on skin for burns? Uh, per the hispanic family that he has interesting see, my family is, uh, in the same thing too. Like the home remedies, yeah, passed down. So how about toothpaste? Have you that?
Speaker 1No, because it seems like toothpaste. And then this is just me. The mintiness of it might make a burn feel worse, and it also is drying. It's very possible, alex, that your mother hated you.
Speaker 2Maybe your mother was subconsciously trying to tell you to brush your teeth more and she was like why don't you put that on a burn? But I could see something like that being a thing, like in a situation where, like, let's just say like you know, you don't know, you don't know what's going on. Whatever you're like, we don't have anything else.
Speaker 1Maybe it's liquid band-aid so that you're covering it. It's sealed. Now you know that nothing's good.
Speaker 2Then you go home and you wash it off yeah, you can like temporarily, plus honestly, like like a nice minty, nice minty, minty, fresh wound. You're like it smells great, you know, yeah, and they put it next to your mouth. You're like, oh my god, did you brush your teeth?
Speaker 2like no, it's my wound and you have a little conversation starter, yeah um, yeah, there was like a lot of remedies where you know like that was oil. Put the oil on it, something like that. Yeah, oil was uh like just something to cover it. Um, yeah, what was that movie where uh, we talked about this recently too like the Windex?
Speaker 1It was like we put on everything. Basically it was my, my big my big fat Greek wedding, the Greek wedding.
Basic Wound Care and Antibiotics
Speaker 2Yeah, the Greek wedding. So, um, what's up with Greek weddings? Why are they so big and fat? I don't know, I don't get it, but um, that was like part of it. So, like this, like the, you know, people have these things in their in their heads about like what is good, what is good what's disinfected, but I had no idea the alcohol was like just such a staple.
Speaker 1Right. I mean honestly, like, if that's all you have, I would say, use it if, like, you're in the middle of the forest, but like don't, that's not, it shouldn't be your go-to.
Speaker 2No, not at all Right. Also, don't be in the middle of the forest without the right shit.
Speaker 1Yeah, or have a wound out there? Yeah, they don't have a wound in the forest, um, so here's one. I didn't know what this was. Maybe you can tell me. Purulent drainage what's purulent mean? I feel like you would know the answer to this question. I don't know. Purulent drainage, now, there's pure like puritis, but that's like p-r-u-r and that's like hives. Okay, right, but this is p-u-r-u-l-e-n-t.
Speaker 2It would make me think that it would be almost like, because I'm thinking about the wound healing, like I've had like almost like uh, drainage coming through the wounds, like through the pores almost, and then I can think of almost like like a little bit like a yellowness to it, like a tint that could be what they're talking about.
Speaker 1Oh, purulent might be the yellowness of it, which is means it's infected again. If it's yellow, if it's turning green, that's yeah, you need to get it looked at, yeah um, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2I'm gonna look up a word here, not that word. I'm looking up a different word for next week's podcast so um, I just want you to know that I'm, I'm here, I'm just, I'm focused, okay, so consisting or containing, see uh-huh, or discharging pus.
Speaker 1Oh, pus Right, so purulent is referring to pus. Okay.
Speaker 2Yep, okay, I was thinking pus, because of the yellowness I was like purulent, what kind of discharge would you have? They'd be conserving.
Speaker 1Yeah, conserving, conserving.
Speaker 2I meant to say alarmsming, alarmsing, alarmsing, alarm zing, and it would be purulent, which would be like the yellowness of it. And also, fun fact did you know that pus is spelled P-U-S? It is, it's not P-U-S-S. Oh, I had no idea. Yeah, that's puss.
Speaker 1Puss is just P-U-S. Why is that word funny to me? I don't know.
Speaker 2I don't know why s would be puss. Yeah, and puss would be p-u-s-s, but that's just one of those, you know right or p?
Speaker 1u, with an umlaut, s would be puss yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Puss, puss, yeah and boots. B-u umlaut, b umlaut over the u-t-s. What's that? Puss and boots? Oh, puss and boots, right, yeah. Well, at least we got to the bottom of it. At least we figured that one out, okay.
Speaker 1so also, if you're a doctor this particular one was aimed at doctors saying that just giving someone just like an oral antibiotic is going to be good for the wound. They're going to need something else, topical as well, because you don't want to just give somebody an antibiotic just for your wound and um, because it has to go through your whole body to fix that one specific area exactly while you're leaving it open and and you're, you're, you're exposing yourself to unnecessary antibiotics and doctors and unnecessary doctors yes, it's the name of my new soap opera unnecessary
Speaker 2doctors, yeah what's your copay?
Speaker 1and then like whatever the music, yeah, um, so, yeah. So using antibiotics too much, oral antibiotics are going to lead to, uh, the development of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, and we don't want that right that's what uh horror movies are made out of yes, exactly so what can we do?
Speaker 1okay, uh, basic wound care, cleaning we already mentioned. I mean, wound care includes cleaning. You want to wash around with the uh, soap and water which just seems very basic, remove any dirt and debris, whatever you know, if you've fallen and you've got it matter what kind of soap I use, like very, very fragrant soap. I wouldn't use.
Speaker 2I would use as much as plain as possible, but if you only have that, then yeah, soap will tend to like get the. I find that herbal essence was the best as far as getting wounds out and also making it smell good.
Speaker 1They make a bar of soap or the shampoo.
Speaker 2Oh no, just shampoo, oh okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1No, this is I'm okay. I guess you could use. See, I come from the 70s. We didn't have shower gel.
Speaker 2You had bar soaps. We used bar soaps. How did you squeeze the bar soap out of the bottle?
Speaker 1No, we would cut it with a knife, like our Irish spring, to make sure that it was green and white all the way through.
Speaker 2That's what it was. You were whittling soap Everybody. Hey, here's your sliver of soap for the day. And you give people slivers of soap for showers.
Speaker 1Yeah, here you go yeah, I grew up in van nuys, that makes sense, yeah and you get like a little little sliver of soap.
Speaker 2Yeah, it always looked like a like like hard butter and I was like yeah, it looked kind of fun actually it looked kind of delicious. I was like why does that look good? I know like, why would it? Why do you have a knife? Oh, we were doing a soap commercial, all right. So who has a knife?
Speaker 1no trust me in the middle of ireland, like on the like on the coast of ireland yeah, chopping up yeah, over there, they just call it spring.
Speaker 1By the way, there's no irish spring they just call it spring yeah it's so stupid all right, um, you can use antibacterial soap, um or assist, then okay, now thisial soap or a saline solution to help kill the bacteria. So why not salt water? Maybe because the salt water is going to be If you're just using, like the ocean, you don't want to just go in the ocean because of the bacteria that's floating in the ocean. If you're having a sterile saline solution, then I guess you could do that to flush it out a little bit.
Speaker 1But again, avoiding using the hydrogen peroxide. Now see, I thought iodine was okay. This is saying this can irritate your wounds. Okay, Is iodine the same thing as mercurochrome?
Speaker 2I think you're thinking of pastelonion.
Speaker 1What's that? I don't know. Is that an error?
Speaker 2You said merc, you said you said mercurochrome, as if like oh yeah, I know what that is.
Speaker 1Well yeah, mercurochrome. You put it like a. It has like a little like a little wand in the bottle and then you like I think it's like red.
Speaker 2Oh it, macaulay caulkin it's for you.
Speaker 1Put it on your nails for so you don't bite them why does it taste bad oh, okay so don't don't eat mercurichrome either, that's uh I didn't know that that makes sense. It seems like it would be very bitter, um, and then you want to cover it with a bandage, you know, or some rolled gauze, uh, and something that you know it's going to hold it in place. Um, like you know, tape, tape would be good. Yeah, and if you have a good band-aid, obviously you can use.
Speaker 1They make great band-aids now, like they actually, yeah, they actually stick, yeah, they actually stick I had to actually take one off the other day, like normally they just fall off when I'm doing something like cooking oh yeah, when you get and then you take and then it falls off and your your fingers all like white and pruney and you're like what the fuck Exactly?
Speaker 2Yeah, Um it looks like a grape.
Speaker 1Yeah, like a white grape.
Speaker 2Yeah, Thanks for just thanks. I'm glad you like me.
Speaker 1That's going in the teaser.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Wound Care and Prevention Tips
Speaker 1I don't know why. Um, and you want to change your bandaid, apparently once a day. I didn't change my bandaid. I left it on there for a good two, three days, but it was a very minor burn. But do that's minor burns? Minor burn yes, it's a minor burn. Yeah, it talks back to you. Your fingers talking back to you yeah Change it or, whenever it becomes wet or dirty, the bandaid itself.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1Okay, and then you can apply a thin layer of the antibiotic if you have. If you can afford triple, go for it.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And that's going to help you prevent the scarring. You can even put a little bit of PJ, petroleum jelly.
Speaker 2To prevent the scarring.
Speaker 1Yeah, prevent scarring, okay, and I think that's because it keeps the moisture in.
Speaker 2Okay, so it doesn't get crusty. But so then it adds afterwards, though, because the petroleum jelly would basically do the same thing that the AAA double MCO would do on the On the scab Like basically keeping it so that, like, the air wouldn't be able to get to it. Yeah, yeah, okay. So you want it afterwards to prevent?
Speaker 1scarring Right yeah, once it's under control.
Speaker 2Gotcha. So keeping it moist basically is the rule of thumb here. Keeping it moist basically is the rule of thumb here, yeah.
Speaker 1Now also keep in mind that this is like very minor wounds we're talking about. I mean, if you're getting a second or third degree burn, that's all. Bets are off.
Speaker 2Stop listening to the show immediately and get medical care Absolutely, I've had those too and I didn't go to the doctor.
Speaker 1and the skin on?
Speaker 2my face turned necrotic.
Speaker 1It was black on one side of my face and came off, which is, I really truly believe, why I don't have that much for the amount of sun damage that I should have. I don't really have that much, and I have a feeling that it's because it all peeled off because it like was. It was bad. I couldn't go in the sun, I couldn't even leave my house for three, like three months one summer.
Speaker 1Wow, yeah, I did it for a boy when was I 17 and boy I was on the beach and you know, this is my normal skin color, probably even whiter and, um, like you're being, I don't know why I said it's my normal skin color, like oh, is she bleaching it to make it look like that?
Speaker 2you know, people want to know things yeah you, so I'm glad that you clarified.
Speaker 1Yeah, but the guy told me he goes you look really good with a tan, so naturally I just went to sleep in the sun.
Speaker 2People say the dumbest shit to people all the time. But yeah, and so you went there, and he was an Italian though. So you know, I just with uh, well, myself, I grew up with me.
Speaker 1Have you ever had a sunburn? Yeah, of course, like a painful sunburn. Yeah, like a blistery one. Uh, I think so, maybe like not too many, like not much, but maybe I mean, I don't think I ever got through a summer that didn't have blisters on my shoulder or on my chest, um, just from being left outdoors too long um, just from being left outdoors too long.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's people we knew that like would come down from, like you know, canada, friends of the family, and they'd come down always. You know, the snowbirds during, like the colder months up there, they'd be down here and they would go to the beach, and they would go to the beach where they would have sunburns and still go to the beach oh my god blisters all over their chest and still go to the beach and never complain about it.
Speaker 2And I was like how bad is it in canada that you are or you know, whatever like it's?
Speaker 1it's that important for them to re-emerge, uh, into their country with a tan, honestly, yeah yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2So I mean, because when they they really it was like it looked like painful, like every time they were there it was always that way. Yeah, I was like I don't understand but mean I have no idea why people would want to do that.
Speaker 1Well, it's because you have a tan all the time, naturally, okay. So we talked about don't pop or drain your blisters ever, ever, ever, ever. You want to pat it dry to keep it intact. And then, if you have sutures on this wound, on said wound, I guess you would have the doctor remove them.
Speaker 2Well, if he's not busy, or she's not busy, or they're not busy.
Speaker 1Yeah, let's see I'm looking for any other ones. Choice of wound dressing depends on the type of the wound and the stage of healing. Most of these keep going back to seek medical attention If you're prone to non-healing wounds. There are people who just have wounds that won't heal. There's entire wound care centers for people who have wounds that will not heal. My stepmom had that where she like had been in an accident and the wound just wouldn't heal and it was like a year later.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And so they would go and drain it and do all that stuff, and this is such a fun episode, yeah.
Speaker 2You've said the word drain I don't know how many times in this episode, and it's all been because of wounds.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's all because of wounds.
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Speaker 2Well, it's, it's a natural thing. You know things happen. Yeah, but yeah, you know things happen, yeah, um, but yeah, it's amazing how the body works and then sometimes it just doesn't. You have to adapt to it um, yeah also.
Speaker 1Uh, you might need to get a tetanus shot if you've had, if you're getting a wound like from something. Have you had a tetanus shot before?
Speaker 2I think I have. I remember one time I had a little, a little scar here. I had a nail go through one side of my finger.
Speaker 1Why is it always a nail with the tetanus? It's's never a screw, because if I'm a screw, then I'd have to be turning my finger like this all the way around and doing it specifically. Right, that makes sense, but yeah the nail.
Speaker 2It was a rusty nail and remember I put my hand down and I just like leaned over and as I leaned over I like pulled my the nail went through my finger and I didn't feel anything. I just looked up and I was like why can't I move? And I was like whoa, and I pulled it through and yeah, it was like such a weird thing, but I never got a tetanus shot for it. You didn't.
Speaker 1Wow, I'm surprised I built up an immunity to rust.
Speaker 2So like I'm just like.
Speaker 1Is that why you can't tell when your jokes are getting old? Exactly, son of a gun. Alex just gave me this face like this yeah, boom, roasted and it all goes back to oxidizing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it does. Wow, um, have a wound related? Uh, let's see, have a wound? Oh, and if you have a wound related to radiation?
Speaker 2hold on a second. Alex was stunned by that, by the way which one he was in awe of the uh, the oxidizing oh, the oh, like the coming back to oxidation yeah, that's also good improv too. Oh whoa, I like.
Speaker 1Or even better, is hey, that guy over there liked my joke.
Speaker 2That's it, oh, my God yeah.
Speaker 1Can we all just stop and acknowledge that that? Guy in the corner liked my joke.
Speaker 2Okay, what are you talking about? Wounds again. Go ahead.
Speaker 1Finish. Yeah, no, if you have some sort of a wound from radiation related to like radiation exposure like, okay, let's talk about this just for one second.
Speaker 2silkwood did you see the movie silkwood? Uh, no, is that.
Speaker 1That way it's with uh meryl streep. It's from the 70s shares in it. They are exposed to, like all of this radiation from a nuclear plant right, right, right, okay, yes, right, and you've heard silkwood shower before right yeah because she's exposed to this radiation and I believe she's got like sores and blisters and things like that. And you know what they do to her? They take a metal brush and they scrape her skin in order to get the radiated skin off, as if that's going to help.
Speaker 1Okay, I don't know that that would be able to. Are you saying, yes, it would work Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, to get the oh, wow, oh, okay, so, yeah, so it's just like you're Basically you're doing like intense micro, not micro, you're doing intense dermabrasion right on the spot okay, yeah, yeah, so that this radiation doesn't keep going in well, I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2Yeah, it would be completely like it would just be being absorbed as fast as possible, right, because it's both two things that are trying to live your body and the and the radiation it's just moving forward. So yeah, that's crazy. I didn't realize that was a.
Speaker 1That was a silkwood, uh that's why, and then, yeah, scrape, oh my god, just I. That's.
Speaker 2The part I can never forget is that they're scraping her after she's been exposed to all of this, and yeah, it's like in game of thrones, when, um that one guy I forgot his name he starts to get that disease, that rock disease, where, like, his body will turn to stone and they end up scraping it off of him and uh yeah I don't remember that part actually. Well, people don't remember game of thrones because it got ruined. No one remembers anything anymore of game of thrones no, ever since the end ever since the end.
Speaker 2The end does not justify the meanness of what these people did.
Speaker 1See what I did there I do see what you did, that's not another good improv. See what I did there yeah, and then the other good one is that's my favorite one, that's the most disapproving sigh yep, I like it.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's disapproving, is still approving that's true.
Speaker 1There's approving in there, yeah I approve well, that's pretty much our wound care. Somehow we managed to kill an hour talking about that I'll be honest.
Speaker 2I think we did more than an hour. I think we got a full two-parter here I think we got a full two-parter.
Speaker 1Maybe we should split it up because I don't have a guess for next week.
Speaker 2And here's what we'll do in the middle of it. Here's what we'll know. We'll just go and we'll just cut it right there, yeah, and we'll just, you know, and then be like on the last seat, on the last episode, and then we'll play the entire half hour from the first episode and then go to the second episode. So they have to watch the, the first episode, twice. So next week will be two episodes. They really get their bang for their buck here, yeah, yeah because they're not paying for anything exactly right.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right. Well, this was fun this was very fun.
Speaker 1it was funner than I thought it was going to be on the drive over here when I was complaining Um it's not about you guys. It was just like last minute cancellation, uh, and it was the second time and you know people do it. I just don't it, just I don't know whatever. This turned out to be really fun and uh, and you're a big help and Alex, alex is a big help and I just appreciate you guys so much.
Speaker 2I learned a lot because I mean, and pretty much none of this stuff I really knew, no, the wound care stuff. As far as alcohol, I thought was good for you. Peroxide I heard something about it, I heard some rumblings of peroxide, but you know. And then salt water, I thought was good. Yeah yeah, I guess salt water is not as sterile, as saline solution, because that's right so that's better for you. But keeping it also keeping it moist, I didn't realize.
Speaker 1I thought you're supposed to let things dry out yeah, I thought scabs were good saline solution also, like when you put it up in your nose, it's like removing anything that's sticky in there right and it's flushing it down, flushing it out it's.
Speaker 2It's not so much the thing, it's, it's the force of it going in your nose that's flushing it out, and then the saline is making it sterile yeah, the saline is pulling the the whatever liquid is in there out out, yeah, and then kind of pulling it out exactly, but also that's also very, uh, scientific too. Well, that's what doctor when they went med school they go and then and then the, the patient will ingest the meds. Po, which means by mouth Is that true, I think it's per oral.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2And then and that's the sound they make of the pill going through the body I used to deliver food to a medical school and I would listen as I left.
Speaker 1He's walking out the door like this Wait could you finish that man?
Speaker 2these cardiologists are ordering a lot of sausage. That's weird.
Speaker 1But you did used to work in a pharmacy, so that makes sense that you would know what PO is.
Speaker 2And also all the sounds I just thought they needed a purchase order. Yeah, one purchase order by mouth daily yeah, All right.
Speaker 1Well, thank you so much and thank you so much for watching. Please leave in the comments any kind of wounds you've had recently, whether they're psychic, emotional, any kind of wounds, and we'll tend to them in response to your comments.
Speaker 2Yeah, People, people. Where can Nikki find you, Nikki? Where can people find you? Where can Nikki find me On the socials?
Speaker 1You can find me at I am what is it? Oh, you can find me at um, I am, uh, what is it? Oh, nikki Davis Jr N-I-C-K-Y, davis Jr J-R. Oh, um, also Funny Facial, which is my skincare one. And then you're obviously watching well, if you're listening on like a podcast thing. Go to um Sex, drugs and Skincare on YouTube and watch this Cause we're we're more interesting to watch, probably. What about you? Where? Where can we, where can Sandra find you?
Speaker 2I'm on the social things at at Sandro, not Sandra. All one word. And yeah, at first I thought you said your your screen name was I am legend. You're like I am legend. And then I thought I was like oh, that's, that's weird, yeah, but okay, so a funny facial at uh and then Nikki Davis jr.
Speaker 1Nikki Davisial at. And then Nikki Davis Jr.
Speaker 2Nikki Davis Jr and then you're Sandro, not Sandra.
Speaker 1Yeah, or something like that. He just got back on there and got immediately 400 new followers.
Speaker 2I just got two. I didn't get 400 new followers. You got something like that. I paid for all of them.
Speaker 1I wish I could do that. Okay, thank you guys so much. This will be out at 3 o'clock, wednesday, and uh, we will 3 am. That is oh 300, and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2Take care, bye have a good thursday.
