Cover with a band-aid and repeat the cleaning process once daily.

Clean the cut with soap and water, and apply triple antibiotic ointment.

Apply direct pressure to stop the bleeding.

You don’t see anything unfamiliar, like bones or tendons.

You can move the affected extremities as normal.

“Some of these cuts actually need to come into the ER, and some of these can be take care of at home, especially if it’s not gaping.” Here's what you need to know: WHEN TO TREAT A CUT AT HOME

“Cuts are one of the main things we see in the ER on a daily basis,” says Dr.

John Torres, NBC News Medical Correspondent, to create amazingly realistic cuts, both minor and more severe, to show you how to treat them at home - and when you should head to the hospital. To get to the bottom of it, we teamed up with the special effects team at SyFy Channel's Face Off and Dr. Often, cutting is the only way she knows how to deal with negative emotions like depression, rage, guilt, emptiness, and self-hatred.1 Most people who inflict. Whether you nicked a finger while chopping vegetables or cut yourself doing yard work, you'll want to know when to treat at home and when it's better left to the professionals. drawing on the skin with a red felt-tipped pen. hospital emergency department for a cut/pierce injury, according to the CDC. Some ways to replace the sensation of cutting include: rubbing an ice cube across the skin. In 2015, an estimated 2 million people visited a U.S. In fact, cuts are one of the most common reasons people visit the emergency room. And kitchens are far from the only only place where we can accidentally cut ourselves.

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