How to Treat Blisters
- 1). Wash your hands with disinfectant soap and water.
- 2). Put on latex gloves.
- 3). Clean around the site of the blister using a disinfectant soap or solution.
- 4). Sterilize the tip of a needle, knife or scalpel by soaking it for at least three minutes in a disinfectant solution or heating it until it glows red, then cools.
- 5). Make a small incision at the base of the blister. Make sure you leave the roof of the blister attached so it can continue to protect the skin.
- 6). Use a gloved finger to gently push the fluid out.
- 7). Apply antibiotic ointment to a piece of gauze and cover the wound.
- 8). Cut a hole the size of the blister in a piece of moleskin.
- 9). Cover the blister with the moleskin so that the blister rests in the middle of the hole and the adhesive sticks to the skin around the blister.
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Check the blister every day for signs of infection: heat, pain and swelling on or around the blister, pus, red streaks radiating from the blister, or fever.