One of the many things that I have been learning with my microbiology is how certain bacteria reacts and how they grow. What's really cool is that we do a lot of experiments and checking the result, finding out if they are positive or negative for certain proteins.
But what I really like it is that now I can make my husband stop using hydrogen peroxide in treating bruises, cuts or burn and instead have him use betadine. I just now learn that hydrogen peroxide is not advisable. I never used it and I always use betadine but my husband won't stop using the other one. So last night I told him what the disadvantage of using hydrogen peroxide. Hopefully, he was convince.
We did experiments on some of hospital disinfectant to find out which one works best as well as household disinfectants.
I think doing all those experiments are really cool and in some way an eye opener to some of the chemicals we use in our house.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Hi! I found u on MBC in the 200 followers club. Can you explain why hydrogen peroxide is not good? I use that on minor cuts and even dilute it and use it for mouthwash.
Hi there... hydrogen peroxide does not make a good antiseptic for open wounds because catalase an enzyme which is released from damaged human cells quickly neutralizes hydrogen peroxide and breaking it down into water and oxygen gas. So its not really effective... its like putting lotion in your hand and then washing it immediately with a soap, so its basically remove quickly. However, it is a good disinfectant.
There are some mouthwash that has an ingredient of hydrogen peroxide but the concentration is different.
I hope that answer your questions.
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