Initial Care: Apply an antiseptic lotion, cream, or petroleum jelly. Cover the area with an adhesive bandage or gauze pad if it is on the hands or feet, or if it is likely to drain onto clothing. Change the dressing often. Check the area each day and keep it clean and dry.

Follow-up Care: Apply a topical antibiotic ointment to the abrasion to prevent infection and cover your wound with a bandage or wound dressing. Small abrasions, like a linear abrasion less than 2 inches, may not need a bandage due to the size. Cleaning and covering the wound daily until it heals.

Initial Care: They should be washed thoroughly with soap and water and covered with antibiotic ointment.

Follow-up Care: Care for your stitches and wound as follows: Keep the area clean and dry for the first 24 to 48 hours after stitches have been placed. Then, you can start to gently wash around the site 1 to 2 times daily. Wash with cool water and soap.

Initial Care: You need to clean and rinse your incision site with a gentle (unscented) soap and water.

Follow-up Care: Always wash your hands before and after touching your incisions. Inspect your incisions and wounds every day for signs of infection like swelling, pus, or color changes. Looking for bleeding. If your incisions start to bleed, apply direct and constant pressure to the incisions.

Initial Care: Apply pressure with a clean cloth or bandage for several minutes to stop bleeding

Follow-up Care: Apply a thin layer of an antibiotic cream or ointment (Neosporin, Polysporin). For the first two days, rewash the area and reapply the antibiotic when you change the dressing

Initial Care: For initial care, gently clean the area with soap and water and cover it with a sterile bandage.

Follow-up Care: After the first 24 to 48 hours, you can remove the bandage and gently wash around the wound with clean water 2 times a day.

• feeling generally unwell – not able to get out of bed

• a change in your temperature – 37.5°C or higher or below 36°C

• flu-like symptoms – feeling cold and shivery, headaches, and aching muscles

• coughing up green phlegm

• a sore throat or sore mouth

• a throbbing, painful tooth

• pain the restroom, going more often or cloudy or foul-smelling urine

• diarrhoea – 4 or more loose, watery bowel movements in 24 hours

• skin changes – redness, feeling hot, swelling or pain

• a fast heartbeat

• feeling dizzy or faint

• being sick (vomiting)

• a headache

• pain, redness, discharge, swelling or heat at the site of a wound or intravenous line such as a central line or PICC line

• pain anywhere in your body that was not there before your treatment