Basically if you get an injury like a scratch, you rub an antiseptic solution on it to reduce the chance of a bacterial infection, but if someone had a full blown bacterial infection, antiseptic solution wouldn’t do anything. Why is that?
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Antiseptic kills bacteria before it infects cells. The process of bacteria attaching to cells and infecting them takes a bit of time. Once the bacteria makes it into the cells it spreads beyond the area accessible by the wound. It is then up to your internal immune system to fight the infection. Which is why taking oral or injected antibiotics is really the only way to fight a fully infected wound. Even more so if the bacteria infects the blood making the patient “septic”
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