With more and more doctors hesitating before prescribing bacteria-fighting medications, zinc oxide is an important resource. It is applied topically, so any time there’s a risk of a topical infection, zinc oxide naturally supplies antibacterial characteristics. It can aid burns, cuts, scrapes, incisions, rashes, surface staph infections, and many other occurrences. Zinc oxide keeps bacteria from entering an open lesion, and it also fights the bacteria, and therefore infections, that may already exist.

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