Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death?

• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Which is also why animals lick their wounds, I believe.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    its also to clean the wound via licking.

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    • gothic_lemons@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait should I be licking my wounds too?

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  except for the amount of bacteria in the mouth.

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  • titter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For the amount of rinsing and the bacteria from the mouth potentially being stronger than what’s in the wound (and more abundant and less likely to cause infection) this seems fine.

    I always hear quotes that dog mouths are cleaner than human, but that’s in quantity of bacteria types not quality

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