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Through ages of injuries an agent
For cleaning out wounds revered
Was hydrogen peroxide resplendent
To many a parent concerned.

Remember how quick they applied it
When as a child you were hurt;
For owies and cuts, lacerations, 
A fizzing and stinging occurred.

New knowledge now of peroxide,
Serves warning but not good cheer.
Informing of action that inside
Doth kill more than it should dare.

Like “antibiots” for bacteria,
Destroying the bad and the good,
Peroxide of hydrogen is terror,
Through wanton destruction in ‘hood.

No doubt its cleansing prowess;
But cells beginning repair,
Like others we know as infectious,
Are crippled beyond compare.

Be careful of hydrogen peroxide;
It's not a friend of wounds.
Its action is indiscriminate;
No cells are left in tune.
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