Main reason I stopped diving or entering water is skin eating bacteria

[STB]

Diving is not for everyone. Your concerns and the reasons for them, may be a contraindication for you. And that's OK because you like bouncing around in your boat with your rod and reel.

did you read the last sentence? or just didn't comprehend?

Wouldn’t use Chlorox on a wound. Cl is poisonous and Chlorox is corrosive to skin tissue. Good for disinfecting other things though.

what is CI?

 

[Steelyeyes]

did you read the last sentence? or just didn't comprehend?
what is CI?

Chlorine, a poisonous substance.

 

[STB]

Don't ever use Clorox. It's highly alkaline and harmful for the tissues. Alkali burns are worse than acid burns.

I've used iodine, and I've used 3% hydrogen peroxide. They sting like heck on open wounds, and they're not particularly good for the healing process as they kill the tissue as well as the bacteria. I only use those if I know that I have some kind of infection in the wound. For a fresh wound, I let it bleed a bit to rinse out any bacteria, and clean it with a chlorhexidine or cetylpyridinium chloride washing solution. If I have a choice, I prefer chlorhexidine. If it's good enough for pre-op sterilization, it's good enough for me.


Seconded.

I'm not sure what "skin eating bacteria" are, but if what the OP is worried about is necrotizing fasciitis, I'd say the risk is really minimal, and that normal risks like being run over by a boat, T-boned in traffic or dropping dead from a heart attack are almost infinitely more probable.

thanks for useable advice I'll be checking into you'r suggestion is this the mouthwash?

I won't enter saltwater w/ cuts period. however when the flys attack and draw blood thats a opening in the skin.
I'm seriously hoping the skin so soft lotion will keep them away so body parts don't get infected then amputated.

one response was only 200 cases a year is also a fraction of actuele cases.

I have been adviced to keep this Hibiclens Antimicrobial/Antiseptic Skin Cleanse onboard.

 

[chillyinCanada]

did you read the last sentence? or just didn't comprehend?
what is CI?

What I read in your second post, is that you wanted to get back in the water. I'd assumed that you meant to scuba dive.

 

[STB]

I'm weening myself back into scuba,initial dives I had teeth problems that I think have been resolved by redoing cavity fillings I was told you have air inbetween tooth and filling. couldn't go deeper than 40' w/out pain in teeth.

I really like freediving around FADS (buoys ect.) also around shallower wrecks.

objective is underwater hunting the fish that are stealing my bait.

my main concern is the flies I've been to florida 100's of times and have always been bitten. don't see a end to the flies unless the new lotion is the solution.

 

[rongoodman]

objective is underwater hunting the fish that are stealing my bait.

In that case I'd be more worried about the sharks trying to steal my fish than any bacteria floating around. Nothing is completely safe.

 

[Ana]

I grew up using the ocean as my healer. Not to a religious extreme, I'm on board with vaccines and taking meds as needed, but when it comes to muscles and cuts there's nothing better than going way offshore into deep blue water and swim, dive or just float.
I'm aware the ocean today is not what it was 50 years ago when I was a kid, but I'll take my chances.... whatever crap is there it came from the land so I'm at risk topside too.
And that's without counting the mental healing which many people should take advantage... would be less wakos outhere.

 

[cerich]

all i am gonna say is misplaced fear IMHO. MANY, MANY more people fishing contract than people swimming, and contraction by scuba divers is exceptionally rare for something that is exceptionally rare. If you were a PSD diver stiriing the bottom up, yeah than more concern...

Anyhow.

 

[arcticat99]

drink lots of vodka and or rum that will clean the wound from the inside out

 

[STB]

all i am gonna say is misplaced fear IMHO. MANY, MANY more people fishing contract than people swimming, and contraction by scuba divers is exceptionally rare for something that is exceptionally rare. If you were a PSD diver stiriing the bottom up, yeah than more concern...

Anyhow.

what is PSD diver?

all i am gonna say is misplaced fear IMHO. MANY, MANY more people fishing contract than people swimming, and contraction by scuba divers is exceptionally rare for something that is exceptionally rare. If you were a PSD diver stiriing the bottom up, yeah than more concern...

Anyhow.

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