How to heal post-trauma scratch mark faster? Met with an accident and got scratches on face and forehead.

Question

Dear Doctor,

I met with an accident recently and got few scratches on my face and the forehead. Kindly give me suggestions to cure faster.

Age-20 years/ male.

Answer 1

Hi,

Welcome to icliniq.com. I am sorry to hear about your accident. I hope you just sustained some scratches and have been otherwise well! Now coming to your skin query. Well, ideally, the best would be to let me have a look at your scratches by posting well-focused pictures of your scratched or abraded areas, or come for a video-chat. Otherwise, I would suggest simple remedies as of now which would definitely expedite the healing of any post-trauma scratch mark:

1) Apply a cream containing an antibiotic, preferably containing a healing substance. There is a tube called ENZOMAC (containing antibiotic mupirocin and healing agent bromelain) or you may use SOFINOX cream (containing antibiotic fusidic acid and healing agents). Apply any one of them twice a day for 7-10 days.

2) If the above mentioned tubes are not available, then you may use separate antibiotic cream twice a day and a healing cream twice a day, example: T-BACT (containing antibiotic mupirocin) cream/ointment or NADIBACT (containing antibiotic nadifloxacin) cream/gel twice a day as the antibiotic and for healing - PLACENTREX gel can be applied one hour after applying either of the above mentioned antibiotic creams.

3) Avoid using a medicated soap or face wash and also avoid a scrub. Wash the scratched area with a mild moisturising soap or baby soap.

4) Keep that area completely protected from sun exposure. Preferably apply a sunscreen lotion with SPF of at least 30, two times a day on the entire face and other affected areas. First coat of sunscreen should be applied half hour before anticipated exposure and second coat after 4-5 hours.

5) Just in case if your scratches are deep, you should take oral vitamin C 500mg twice a day for 10 days (CELIN 500 or LIMCEE 500) and a zinc containing multivitamin capsule once a day (ZINCOVIT or BECOSULE-Z) I hope this helps you. Though I would still prefer to look at the skin condition through posting picture or video conference. Consult a dermatologist online.