Weird question, but I ask out of curiousity:
Say there is a dead body with a diaper rash type skin ailment. Now, if it’s in the morgue/walk in freezer keeping cold and someone put ointment on the body’s diaper rash, would it heal or not?
In other words, does the body help the ointment to work, or does the ointment heal wounds from the chemical properties in itself alone?
I would think that logically the body would have to have blood circulation, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
The rash won’t go away from a chemical reaction with the ointment. The cells have to be alive to clear up cell damage.
A&D doesn’t clear anything up on its own. What it does is form a barrier over the rash (or injury) and keeps it from getting worse. Meanwhile, the skin is working to heal itself. Dead people don’t heal themselves. Consequently, putting A&D on a corpse’s rash won’t do jack.
Robin
I was going to answer this, only it’s been superlatively answered, and it was too inane even for me. Which is going some.
diggleblop, nothing dead responds to ointments, vitamins, antibiotics, epinephrine and paddles and “Clear!”, lightning strike, scalpel slicing, Stryker saw whirring into the skull bones, tiger roaring, loved one’s voice speaking, you name it. They are dead. Lots of truth is stranger than fiction but there’s no strange factoid superseding that truth.
And no, the hair and fingernails do not grow after death. (Fingertips and scalp shrink a little creating an optical illusion of lengthening. But they don’t grow. Growth takes life. They’re dead.)
Sheesh.
What about if the body is on a treadmill?
Aerobic exercise is widely reported to prevent death. Fascinatingly, the reverse is also true.
Yes, but if you put a dead body on a treadmill, would it be able to take off?
If it’s carrying a coconut?
The name, it’s pronounced Fronkensteen.
Did anyone else picture someone exhuming a full grown corpse and putting ointment on it’s ass when they read the preview?
The catagory is General Questions people. To bad. I had a great one liner on that last one.
I’m not dead yet. I think I’ll take a little walk.
I suppose, if it was a fungus (some of which can spread after death) and it was an antifungal creme, it could have an effect. Dead bodies also decompose and some stuff will slow the decomposition.