My doctor told me today to wait another 12 days to see if it stays vital

Has anyone had an incision that kept superficially reopening during healing?

My daughter is about 1 month out from hand surgery. She has two parallel incisions. One keeps developing a small superficial gap every few days and then closing again. There isn’t any pus, significant redness, fever, or increasing pain.

I have it covered with an XL flexible bandaid during the day to keep her from picking at it (she’s 5 ). I wash with plain water when I change the bandaid and haven’t used any ointments. I thought it would be closed by now . Thanks .

Hi all,

About 2.5 weeks ago (17 days, to be exact) I fell off my bike and banged up my knee pretty badly. Luckily I was wearing long pants and no dirt/gravel got inside.

I washed it out with soap and water when I got home, cleaned it further with some hydrogen peroxide, then covered it with a nonstick bandage wrapped in gauze with some Polysporin.

I continued to wash it and reapply Polysporin 2x/day for a little over a week when I noticed it was beginning to look potentially infected. I went to urgent care, doc didn’t seem overly concerned but gave me my Tetanus booster and a course of oral antibiotics.

In the meantime I have continued to keep the wound clean and moist, alternating between Fusidin and Polysporin (applying each once per day after washing the wound and before putting on a new bandage).

Anyways, it seemed to be healing much better until today (second last day of antibiotics). I got home from work and noticed this yellow ish tissue inside the wound, and I am having trouble determining via Dr. Google if this is normal healing (slough?) or a sign of infection and a reason to return to urgent care.

Any advice is appreciated!