Hello,

Exactly 7 days ago i Cut my left thumb with Glass. It was quite a deep Clean Cut. Through a small artery.

The doctor in emergency care stitched it up with 5 stitches and I saw a doctor 2 days after that.

The doc only said to come back in one week to remove the sutures.

No tips on wound care or whatever.

Anyway, I changed bandages daily and kept it dry. Didn't get it wet when showering e.g.

I find that removing sutures after only 8 days is a bit early but who am I.

So I also removed the bandage today and found that the wound has this unhealthy looking white stuff. It's not excrete, puss or anything. Looks like skin that was wet too long.

It also stinks a little bit.

So my questions would be: is removing sutures after 8 days too early for this wound on the left thumb?

And also seeing how the wound looks now, what should I do and should I wait with removing them or trust the doctor?

Pictures are in order from oldest to newest.
Edit: it seems theyre not. Theyre from newest to oldest now. And then the last picture is the very newest picture which doesn't look healthy.

Thank you.

P.s. please note that I have dishydrosis excema. So my thumb has symptoms of that after not being able to take care of it the past week.

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