Can I make acetic acid??

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I have a pt with wound to foot that requires 0.25% acetic acid daily. My understabding is that it is composed of vinegar and water. Does anyone know how to make it at home?

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Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

Wow, not usually a currently recommended practice as it inhibits growth of healthy tissue and encourages pseudomonas. Not to mention that daily dressing changes disturb the wound bed and lengthen healing time. It's about 1/4 cup white vinegar to a quart of water.

http://www.thehealthline.ca/healthlibrary_docs/E.2.1.LocalWoundCareCleansing.pdf See page 4 for instruction on the technique for use.

Hanging Wet to Dry Dressings Out to Dry is a fabulous article to read and share with your practitioners who are continuing to prescribe wound care that is not based on research, or even worse, wound care that is proven harmful!

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Specializes in Wound Care, Home Care, Med/Surg.

Here is a research article on acetic acid and pseudomonas. The research article demonstrates how acetic acid is actually a cost effective way to treat pseudomonas. Further web searches also confirm that ascetic acid is a usfull in treating wounds with pseudomonas. So, yes, go ahead and use ascetic acid on a wound with pseudomonas.

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I have had good results with using ascetic acid on wounds with pseudomonas. There was no damage to viable tissue noted.

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