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Peroxide burn and panicking corona stricken area

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This has never happened to me before and I'm freaking out. I know peroxide isn't suggested for cuts anymore but it was all I had on hand during this lockdown.
I put it on a cut on my calf. I guess some splashed on my ankle and it started burning. I washed it off with water but now I have dry white spots left behind.
I'm in NY and I'm having a hard time with handling the crisis in my state. Some of my loved ones in the city are on the frontlines without protection. My best friend is presumed positive.
I'm panicking about how my neighbor is burning his fireplace nonstop after I told him it aggravates my asthma which I have to try to control right now with this pandemic happening. And I have very itchy rashes behind my knees that are really scaring me.
I don't know what I need right now. I'm so upset and frightened and anxious.
 
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That’s what happens when you use peroxide. Very normal. And it’s safe. I use peroxide to clean the inside of my ears, which I literally dump a capful inside my ear canal and let it sit and clean things.

If you are on lockdown and are showing no symptoms and you haven’t had contact with it. You’re not going to get it. Asthma from your neighbors fireplace, if youre on quarantine, isn’t going to make you get Coronavirus... you would need to actually be exposed to the virus. It’s not going to bring down your immune system.

What’s the worst thing that can happen with a rash? If it hasn’t caused anything serious by now it probably won’t. Stop touching it. Clean the area with antibacterial soap, very very gently, put some unscented or sensitive skin lotion on it. If you believe the rash is due to allergies, but cortisone or other allergy cream on it.

I’m not a doctor or anything but I have all sort of issues I deal with in my life, so I’ve learned how to ease symptoms and lose anxiety about them. Just my advice.
 
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chickentender said:
This has never happened to me before and I'm freaking out. I know peroxide isn't suggested for cuts anymore but it was all I had on hand during this lockdown.
I put it on a cut on my calf. I guess some splashed on my ankle and it started burning. I washed it off with water but now I have dry white spots left behind.
I'm in NY and I'm having a hard time with handling the crisis in my state. Some of my loved ones in the city are on the frontlines without protection. My best friend is presumed positive.
I'm panicking about how my neighbor is burning his fireplace nonstop after I told him it aggravates my asthma which I have to try to control right now with this pandemic happening. And I have very itchy rashes behind my knees that are really scaring me.
I don't know what I need right now. I'm so upset and frightened and anxious.
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That's what happens when peroxide touches your skin. It turns white. Learned that trying to color or perm my hair one time. It's just a cool reaction that goes away...
 
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It did go away. Thank you guys for letting me know. That never happened to me before and when it happened, it stung badly like I was getting burned!
Now I'm worried about my neighbor's fireplace and how it's making my asthma worse.
I'm just really, really stressed guys. Things are so bad where I live.
 
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Try to relax your breathing, focus on your stomach moving, not your chest. That means you might be hyperventilating. Stretch out your toes, hold them for 5-10 seconds. Then tighten your legs, relax, then do your stomach, tighten your arms, make a fist. Do each of these as you’re breathing in and out slowly. In through your nose, out of your mouth. It will help you with tension.
 
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Guitarist41 said:
Try to relax your breathing, focus on your stomach moving, not your chest. That means you might be hyperventilating. Stretch out your toes, hold them for 5-10 seconds. Then tighten your legs, relax, then do your stomach, tighten your arms, make a fist. Do each of these as you’re breathing in and out slowly. In through your nose, out of your mouth. It will help you with tension.
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Thank you so much, this is very helpful
 
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