Blister Care
December 19, 2011
Since I’m willing to do science to myself….
I developed two nearly identical blisters on the insides of my thumbs because of bad hand posture during kali. I have heard conflicting reports on what to do when one gets blisters, so I decided to try two of them.
On my left hand, I drained the blister and trimmed the skin off so that I wouldn’t pick at it. I also washed it out, and made sure to keep it clean. I did this on the night I received the blister. In the following four days, it has healed to a cracked and icky looking scab, and hurts when pressed on.
On my right thumb, I pricked a small hole in the blister a night later, drained it, cleaned it, pressed the skin back, and put a cloth bandage on it, that being what I had around. I made sure to keep it and the bandage clean. It has since healed to a small scab, with the surrounding skin being coarse. The skin over the blister dried and was picked off about three days into the healing process. It doesn’t look bad at all, and doesn’t hurt when pressed.
I believe that my right hand is healing better because the skin protected the soft skin underneath enough for it to heal and that the left hand isn’t healing as well because it wasn’t protected.
In event of me getting two more blisters, I will test the method I used on the right hand against letting it be so that it heals entirely on it’s own.
And a picture to show how big the difference is! (my left thumb is the ‘top’ thumb, and the right is the one that looks fine…)
