When our pet’s wound starts to heal and a scab begins to form, this can be irritating to the wounded area. If your pet scratches or bites their scab, it can cause reinjury and set back the healing process. Did you know that the practice of wet wound healing minimizes the chance of itchy scab formation and can help your pet achieve faster wound healing?

What is wet wound healing?

Wet wound healing is simply keeping a wound moist during the healing process. This can easily be achieved by covering the wound with a wound care ointment, like HoneyCure. Creating a moist environment for the wound to heal is beneficial because cells thrive in this environment.

Why do cells prefer a moist healing environment?

When a wound occurs, the body responds with inflammation, which makes the area swollen and red. This response causes the body to send blood and immune cells to the wounded area to begin healing and form a clot to stop the bleeding.

When a wound dries out, the cells will condense, limiting the needed nutrients, blood, and oxygen from being able to move quickly through the cells.

When skin cells are moist, nutrients, blood, and oxygen flow more efficiently through the cells, promoting better healing and a lower chance of infection. The practice of wet wound healing creates a more stable environment for a wound to heal because of the moisture barrier it creates over the wound. This moisture barrier can be created by a wound care product like HoneyCure, and helps to keep the nutrients and oxygen inside the wound to promote better healing.

What are the other benefits of wet wound healing?

When a wound is healing, it is important to keep it clean to minimize infection. When you practice wet wound healing, you are creating a protective layer that can stop germs, dirt, and debris from entering the wound.

Wet wound healing can also minimize scar tissue formation. Platelets, a type of immune cell in blood, go to the wound's surface during inflammation. Wet wound healing minimizes scab formation on the outer layer of the skin and helps to create a barrier in the vascular layer of the skin, which is the layer on top of blood vessels. When a scab doesn’t form at the surface of the wound, this can minimize the formation of scar tissue, which is beneficial because scar tissue is more prone to reinjury compared to healthy skin.

It is important to remember that a wound will always heal itself, and adding a product like HoneyCure to your pet’s wound care routine can promote better and faster healing. The next time your pet has a wound, be sure to incorporate wet wound healing into their wound care routine!

Works cited:

Junker, Johan P.E., et al. “Clinical impact upon wound healing and inflammation in moist, wet, and Dry Environments.” Advances in Wound Care, vol. 2, no. 7, Sept. 2013, pp. 348–356, https://doi.org/10.1089/wound.2012.0412.