Are you unknowingly promoting a hostile wound healing environment with your choice of wound cleanser, allowing for the colonization of bacteria in the wound bed? Recent studies have shown that pH is a critical factor in the balance of wound healing, and the use of high-pH products such as sodium hypochlorite can be detrimental to healthy tissue. Furthermore, more data have recently been published to show that high-pH environments trigger metabolic responses in fungi that lead to further degradation of skin conditions or environment. High pH in the wound bed also seems to select positively for pathogens … register