M14 Forum

huntinghawk

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the things you want to keep on hand. It separates when used so you always want to rinse it off with isopropyl alcohol.
Simple use of the two can really help from getting serious infections.

HH

hero4you69

lots of uses , lots of power . not all medical, all i can post is do your own homework !

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art7

It is a good disinfectant.

The bigger caution is that hydrogen peroxide will degrade with time. This degradation is made faster by exposure to light - which is why it is sold in dark bottles. I don't know how fast it degrades, but depending on how often you need it for disinfecting, you might find that the bottle in your emergency supplies is several years old. You might want to check the expiration date, and replace as necessary.

Art

nSquid

Removes cotton gauze bandaging that has a scab or even tissue growth through the weave. Cold bubbling, looks nastyy, feels just fine.

High purity H2O2 is a component of liquid rocket fuel.

Butzbach

Good cleaner, not a great antiseptic, not particulary stable.

82nd ABN

I hope this is not taken the wrong way. I have recently heard that hydrogen peroxide is not a good choice for cleaning or disinfecting the actual wound because it causes tissue damage. Same goes for iodine and alcohol. The antimicrobial creams are the product of choice to prevent infection. Soap and water should be your first choice but I realize you vents are talking about a survival situation. This was brought to my attention by my mother who has been working as a nurse for over 50 years. Currently works as a director of nursing. It goes against what I was told in the past. It is good to disinfect the area around wounds. Here is something I found

"After cleaning the injury, apply an antimicrobial cream, ointment, or spray as an additional safeguard against infection. Don't use hydrogen peroxide, iodine, or alcohol directly in a wound because they may damage or irritate tissue; however, they are safe for cleaning wound edges and the skin around the injury".

If it was the only thing I had, no doubt I would be using it. I keep a in date bottle in the medicine cabinet as well as antimicrobial creams and betadine.

Just thought I would point this out, not trying to irritate anyone.

drbub22

82nd ABN, well said! Your Mother is correct, as mothers usually are. Wash the wound very well, apply a thin smear of antibiotic ointment, and keep it clean and dry. Do not use Hydrogen Peroxide on wounds. Although it kills bacteria, it also kills new growth tissue.
Doc

Tenfeathers

It will remove blood from clothes very well ,just rinse good after

SOCOM42

In 100% form it is a component in rocket fuel. It was one of the two components powering the me163 komet during ww2 by the germans.

Take full strenth and pour on the seat of a closed car in summer and in a few min you will have an inferno.

Mix full strenth with red fuming nitric acid and you will have instant ignition or detonation on contact.

art7

Actually, 100% peroxide is VERY unstable and can detonate spontaneoulsly, which is why the German rocket program was so dangerous.

Stuff you buy at the drugstore is usually only about 6% in water.

SOCOM42

basicly this is what i was saying in my post. germans called the the components d-stoff and t-stoff. two seperate crews fuled the 163 with a full washdown prior to the second fueling. The fuel itself to be mixed with the peroxide was hydrazine hydrate. another unstable chemical. The v2, a9 and a10 were fueled with lox and alcohol made from potatoes.

TheTinMan

I can tell you that you get much less scarring using Neosporin than hydrogen peroxide.

Anybody else's Mom liked to apply iodine or mercurochrome? That stuff hurt! There was some other stuff I can't remember the name of... I think her theory was that if it hurt, it had to be good for you.

sarcrew00

I have had a couple of surgeries the last few years and the wounds were always cleaned with saline solution. There is actually saline in an arosol can...can I have here is Wound Wash brand. Both were very serious. One surgery was for a ruptured bowel and the second was for a gunshot wound surgery caused in a robbery attempt. Seems like a simple solution.

Danny

bigkicks

i agree with 82nd, there are much better things to clean a wound with, but u do see it alot in the older gerneration. my grandmother, rest her soul use to swear by it.. something is always better than nothing.. i like watching the bubbles, lol.... and it is great for taken blood stains out of material....

art7

I seem to recall that the iron in blood acts as a catalyst, causing the H2O2 to break down, and relesing the oxygen which degenreates the blood stain.

There were (maybe still are) some formulas of liquid Tide that had peroxide in them. Packaging was difficult, because the stuff would liberate O2 on the shelf, so the bottles had to be able to vent, but without leaking if they were put on their sides.

A lot of work was done with micropourous membranes, but if the hole was small enough to prevent liquid passage, it was also small enough that the product would plug the hole. If you made the hole bigger, the package would leak..