Scabs, pick them or leave them?

RATTER15 | 11:46 Sat 12th Nov 2011 | Health & Fitness

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Recently I was with A District Nurse whilst tending a resident with a small wound, I commented when I saw the Nurse picking the scab off. She said whilst it has always been seen a bad thing to pick scabs off, it is now seen to to be the correct thing to do as long as you keep it sterile, she then said that this is why it is so instinctive to pick scabs off. I must say that the wound healed very quickly.

Im very unsure about this modern technique however, what do you think?

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I will usually pick and will rarely have any dressings or plasters, I also find that the quicker it dries out the quicker it heals. Ojread, yes they do like to keep wounds moist these days, im not sure I agree but these guys are the professionals.

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