salt into wounds.

had an irritating ulcer on the right side of the tip of my tongue for 2-3 days now, really irritating cos i cant eat properly.
so a clever friend of mine suggested to put salt on it. supposedly heals faster but it stings la.

ok so i was bored and i tried it.

WOOHOO. FREAKING PAIN! hahaha. what a sensation, it stung like hell for several minutes. it takes like 5 seconds for it to kick in so it's quite cool. think ill do it tmr if i'm bored :p

anyway, rubbing salt into wounds is NOT advisable! managed to find this short writeup:

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Provided by Walter Sipe, M.D., clinical fellow of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition, University of California, San Francisco (former HHMI medical fellow)

Before we get to the science part of your question, let me start by saying:
Do not put salt on your cut. The single most important aspect of wound care in the backcountry is vigorous and copious irrigation with clean water (filtered or chemically treated so it is drinkable). You can generate a high-pressure stream by filling a zip-top plastic bag with water, poking a tiny hole in a bottom corner of it with a needle, and then squeezing the bag so water comes out through the hole. For dirty wounds, vigorous scrubbing to remove foreign bodies is also important. Exposing wounds to iodine, alcohol, peroxide, and pure salt is no more effective than water irrigation at preventing infection and can potentially damage tissues. The safest way to slow bleeding is to hold direct pressure on the wound until the bleeding stops.

The reason that salt stings a cut is that as the salt dissolves, it causes the fluid surrounding damaged tissues to become extremely hypertonic (which means that the concentration of salt and other electrolytes is higher than it is in normal body fluids).

Pain-sensing neurons have receptors on them that respond to a variety of stimuli. For example, there is a specific receptor that responds vigorously to capsaicin, which is the substance that gives jalapeño and habanero peppers their kick. So, quite literally, when you are adding hot pepper to food, you are (carefully, I hope!) inducing the sensation of pain to complement the other flavors of the meal.

More recently identified is a receptor that responds to changes in electrolyte concentration—such as the change that a large amount of salt induces. Thus, putting salt on a wound stimulates pain-sensing neurons in much the same way hot pepper does.

When tissue is damaged, many pain receptors become sensitized—that is, they need a much lower level of stimulation to respond than they normally would. (For example, after you have burned your mouth, try eating some spicy food that you could normally handle—ouch!) Salt may then compound the pain by further damaging injured tissues and making them more sensitive in general.
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random rant

i dont quite know what i'm going to say but i'm just gonna randomly rant about stuff cos i wanna rant.

firstly, i dont get why on earth people can be 30-45 minutes late for an appointment. 5-15 minutes i GUESS it's excusable, for reasons such as the bus taking very long to come, missing the bus, etc. but 30 minutes?!?
Seriously, i don't think one's time approximation can be THAT bad, you should be able to roughly estimate how to get to a place unless you've never ever been there before (in that case you should try to go earlier since you may get lost)
If you have to go to, say, Town (dhobygaut/cityhall), from say.. serangoon, and you live 10 minutes away from the MRT, you should estimate about 20+ minutes to reach town?

Then why are some people still leaving house at 3.25PM when meeting time is 3.30PM!??!
seriously!! get prepared earlier or something. it's ridiculous to start getting ready at 3.15 when you should already leave house at 3.10 -_-

(the examples used are completely randomed, in case you were wondering)

Anyway this morning i was quite frustrated with DOMinic. He was the sound man for worship, and the prearranged time to meet was 7.45AM. and well, sound man is pretty impt cos he has to set up the mikes and everything and soundcheck adjust volume blabla. and the reason we were coming early in the first place was for him to get everything done.
Then the WHOLE worship team was there by 7.50. but DOM? no . not a sign till 8.15 -_- (worship starts at 8.25/30)

What was his excuse ? 'i had a breakfast appointment la!!' which was with 1 guy 2 girls but i'm pretty sure he was so late cos of the 2 girls but that's not the point.
Breakfast appointment so what!?? you had a duty to come at 7.45 so you should have left early or something to settle it. srsly. -_- and the way he said it (he repeated it like 2-3 times) was indicating that his 'breakfast appointment' had WAAAY precedence over coming to church on time to set up all the sound stuff blabla.

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ok i think i actually had more to say but i'm pretty tired now suddenly dunno why so lazy to type more. oh ya, if anyone is doing anything this week please ask me!! mahjong/go out / whatevernonsense. askask.
ktnxbai.