Read the Label on Wound Treatment Remedies: Use Your Own Onion!

Have you seen the new scar prevention creams being sold at Wal-Mart and many other stores? I was about to buy one small tube of Mederma for $12 at Wal-Mart, but first I read the ingredients. It was ordinary lotion ingredients plus onion bulb extract. $12 for a little onion extract? Forget it! I went home and used a few pennies of onion myself. I applied some onion juice to a healing burn wound that I have, followed by treatment with Vaseline, olive oil, or lotion to add some barrier function. I've been doing this several times a day. It seems to have helped. But it's not clear that the onion treatment is really any better than simply using a petrolatum-based product alone. See the article from Dermatology TImes, " Onion doesn't top petrolatum for wound-healing." On the other hand, there are some people who have really been helped by the onion-based products such as Mederma. Also see some information on the Mederma product at Epinions.com.

For now, though, I'm keeping the onion treatment idea as one of my home remedies.

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