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Does skin recover after prednisone?

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Jun 10 2:39pm | Replies (19)

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our skin Dr gave us a handful of Curity Non-adherent strips 3x8. Sort of a Vaseline soaked gauze. You use an antiseptic cleaner first. This is a Cardinal wound and dressing cleaner. Cut the curity strip to cover the wound. Then a gauze pad. Then a vet wrap or self adherent wrap around the wound. Nothing sticks to the skin. Still takes week to 10 days to heal. If you take it off to early then the scab just brushes on anything and opens up.

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There shouldn't be any scab formation. You are doing fantastic but keeping the wound moist is essential.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8568799/
Skin tears due to thin skin are really hard to manage. Prednisone doesn't help the situation because it increases the risk of infection and slows the healing process.