[Seany (OP)]

It always hurts when you have a graze or a cut and then you go and have a warm shower.. And it stings.. Why?

[_Stefan_]

Maybe the nerves in the injured area are still very sensitive/damaged so the warm water overwhelms them. Probably a similar reason to why wounds hurt when touched.

[JimBob]

Jimmy is totally ignorant, but an educated guess it that the absence of skin or the cut in it causes the nerves to be laid bare, thus exposing them to the over stimulation of the pounding water.

I believe _Stefan_ is correct.

Now let Chris come on and blow this out of the water.  [:-'(]

[kdlynn]

see i would have guessed cleaning out the start of an infection as the reason why. but what do i know?

[Karen W.]

WATER NEVER HURTS MY CUTS, IT IS ALWAYS THE SOAP FOR ME. EXAMPLE, I STEPPED ON A BROKEN GLASS THE OTHER NIGHT, I WASHED IT WITH WATER IT WAS FINE, BUT WHEN I SOAPED IT BOY DID IT HURT! lol Sorry bout the caps! Does water alone hurt everyone else or am I weird?

[_Stefan_]

Warm water hurts my wounds, soap or vitamin E cream sometimes do, but cold water doesn't.

[Karen W.]

That is interesting I wonder if it depends on the type of wound, depth and all?? I have no problem with warm or cold water!

[lightarrow]

It always hurts when you have a graze or a cut and then you go and have a warm shower.. And it stings.. Why?

I really don't know, but maybe it's because of the different osmotic pressure between plasma and water.

[Seany (OP)]

Mmm OK. It doesn't hurt after you've been in the water for a while, because we get used to it..