Waterproof options when surfing with stitches

[oldman]

I'm not convinced that salt water isn't good for the wound.

Unless you are concerned about opening it up again I would be out there in a flash. Unless the water is dirty the salt water acts as an antiseptic.

Bunch of wusses on here.

BCC - yeah be careful, not because of the wound, but because this is the site of a cancer.

Melanoma - 99% cure, provided you get it before it happens. Not sure where Daryl got his figures from but melanoma is an absolute bitch. Be very careful there.

I've surfed with stitches. I'm not sure the medical fraternity actually has any idea, and naturally they advise the cautious approach.

Salt water is good for everything.

[buzzy]

Glad to hear it's nothing serious there cuttlefish.

I've just been our of the water for 5 days (ok, 4...) while a head gash healed. Only needed steristrips rather than stitches but the healing rate is exactly the same either way. Not happy with the (aside from the personal injury thing) likeable kook who dings my board two weeks ago and dings my head the next week.

[daryl]

I'm not convinced that salt water isn't good for the wound.

Unless you are concerned about opening it up again I would be out there in a flash. Unless the water is dirty the salt water acts as an antiseptic.

Bunch of wusses on here.

BCC - yeah be careful, not because of the wound, but because this is the site of a cancer.

Melanoma - 99% cure, provided you get it before it happens. Not sure where Daryl got his figures from but melanoma is an absolute bitch. Be very careful there.

I've surfed with stitches. I'm not sure the medical fraternity actually has any idea, and naturally they advise the cautious approach.

Salt water is good for everything.

Only if it's clean, if you can see little things in the water then it's not.

I don't remember either, someone here had it up on our front page, so it was gone the next day. Said they only had 2 sites they couldn't fix, DNA sites where you do deletions.

It was more recent than this

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 040610.php

Disclaimer: not being professionally engaged in skin cancer I agree with anyone saying to keep my mouth shut.

My point is, on this subject, that I did pick up a few basics which are important enough, and cannot be repeated enough.

One is what melanoma looks like, a sort of mottled creeping bruise that can grow very, very fast, to the size of your palm, in less than a couple of months.

Another point I will make that is related, is for the parts of your body you can't see, a lot of the back, either have family members familiarize one another's, or a family doctor if he/she's cluey, or else, of course, a specialist, and check it, say every few months, even take a decent picture, nearly all the work I did in the field was to do with getting a good picture.