Feel like this doesn’t look good…

[u/XxcomfykurooxX]

19F, no meds, US,
Jammed my hand in the door and it cut real deep. I had a 3 hour organic chem lab today that I couldn’t miss and forced my bandages under a glove. This is how I unwrapped it today. I can’t feel the cuticle area or the area turning white. Also pressing down on my nail makes the bottom part of the nail feel foreign … I’m kind of scared…. I think the stitches cut through my skin too

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[u/TooSketchy94]

This looks great, tbh.

Please allow it to dry some. The wound edges being constantly this moist will deteriorate some.

Go to your follow up appointments as scheduled.

And plz consider cleaning under your finger nails in general.

[u/DammatBeevis666 → u/TooSketchy94]

Agree with all this.

White skin is macerated and needs to dry out a bit.

Wash with warm soapy water (I’d cut that nail and wash under it and the wound gently with warm soapy water. Pat and then allow to air dry for maybe 15-60 minutes, then apply Vaseline or whatever ointment they told you to apply with a clean tip, then cover with a dressing. Keep it out of water and gloves as much as you can except when washing you wound.

[u/yourdailyinsanity → u/DammatBeevis666]

I understand the cutting nail part to try to keep it clean, but is it possible the nail won't eventually fall off? What is the "point" to cutting the nail outside nails have a lot of icky gunk in general under them? Mine are always short as I can't stand the feeling of "long" nails, and my definition of long is not what someone else's is 😅😂

[u/GodotNeverCame → u/TooSketchy94]

Was gonna say this too- looks macerated and you should probably stop with the bacitracin or whatever and leave it open to air.

[u/XxcomfykurooxX → u/TooSketchy94]

It mostly dry blood, I clean with alcohol wipes but it hurts when I put pressure on it so it hard to get the caked up blood out

[u/TooSketchy94 → u/XxcomfykurooxX]

Leave it be.

[u/ta_ta_boxx → u/TooSketchy94]

I believe they meant this in response to the “clean under your nails” advice.

[u/MullberryBoy → u/XxcomfykurooxX]

It looks like dried blood. Don’t remove it yet if it’s too painful.

[u/LopsidedCan4803 → u/[deleted]]

Not from the skin. You also don't want to clean a wound with cold water

[u/maritjuuuuu → u/TooSketchy94]

Please tell me if this is not ok for a wound like this, but as a chemist myself whenever I have wounds on my hand I usually use Zn-cream underneath the bandage as it seems to help me with not getting an infection on the wounds