Since it’s recommended not to use alcohol or hydrogen peroxide to clean a wound why are they still used for this purpose?

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I understand for people out in the wilderness and other places where clean running water and soap a sparse. It’s other situations that confuse me.

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Some of it is because people were told when they were young that you use those two things to clean a wound. Now that we (in general) know better, some of them do not believe that medical science knows better than their grandma. And some of them just have not been informed that they are wrong.