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Wound Care: Your Essential First Aid Care Guide
5 Common Home Injuries How to prevent and treat common wounds.
Reducing Scars: Tips From Dermatologists How to prevent, reduce, or minimize scars.
Diabetes and Wound Care Knowing how to deal with even small wounds is critical to your diabetes care.
Preventing & Treating Burns Thermal burns, scalds, sunburns -- avoiding injury and accidents.
Reducing Pain While a Wound Heals Keep the wound covered and other tips for fast healing and less pain.
Caring for Wounds During Pregnancy From blisters to episiotomies, how to treat problems during pregnancy.
First Aid While Waiting for Help What to do about injuries while you're calling 911.
Staying Safe When Playing Sports Helmets and other sports safety gear that protect your and your kids.
Protect Bones: How to Avoid Falls Tips on home safety and hazards to identify for people with osteoporosis.
Preventing and Treating Bug Bites From spiders to mosquitoes to ticks, here's how to get the upper hand.
Quiz: First Aid for Serious Wounds If someone is seriously injured, do you know what to do until help arrives?

What do you use to clean a minor cut?

Poll Results

Hydrogen peroxide

34%

Clean water

37%

Alcohol

Antibacterial soap

22%

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