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Peroxide may kill some bacteria in the throat, but whether you should be trying to kill them is another matter entirely. We are absolutely besieged these days by ads for anti-bacterial products â soaps, detergents and household cleansers, cutting boards, bandages, toys, cosmetics, even ice packs.
Doing so could introduce new germs and cause an unpleasant infection, as well as a scar. Here are four pieces of advice you should politely decline: 1) Use hydrogen peroxide to disinfect the wound. You might think all that bubbling of hydrogen peroxide on your wound is its germ-killing action hard at work. And you'd be right. But that bubbling isn't just killing the bacteria in your cut, it's also killing your body's âfibroblasts,â the cells responsible for repairing the wound.1. It gets worse: [M]ultiple randomized, controlled trials â the best kind of research â show that hydrogen peroxide does not prevent or treat infections in wounds.