We all wash our wounds with soap and water right? In this article, it states that one should use a salt solution instead. Link. Apparently, hospital patients whose wounds were washed with soap required surgery a few years later due to infection.
I would personally not use a saline solution because it stings a lot... But, I heard that some soaps kill of a lot of bacteria, leaving only the stronger ones which may build up and become a problem. That may be why many patients required surgery for infections afterwards.
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