Superglue For Cuts

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akivory

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A few days ago I was working late at night cutting a whale jaw bone on my 20 inch band saw I recently purchased I got a nasty cut on my index finger that probably could have used three or four stitches. After cleaning the wound and stopping the bleeding I got the idea that i could just superglue it.
I use gallons of super glue stabilizing and filling mammoth teeth and bone that I use for my carvings. I thought it would be a good idea to do a little research and googled "super glue cuts". The first listing was this thread from BF 6 years ago. http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-158404.html .After reading this I decided to clean and dress the wound without glue. The idea of spending a Saturday night in the hospital emergency room full of drunks and being charged $600 did not appeal to me. The finger is healing nicely and other than another scar to add to the collection all has ended well.
 
Chicks dig scars.....I've used it myself by squeezing the cut together and putting a drop on. I figure that way it's just on the surface of my skin. Leaving the cut open probably introduces just as much crap into your system whether it's dressed or not...at least you can keep working that way.
 
600 dollars for a visit to casualty??
I take your point about not wanting to hob-nob with the saturday night drunks though...who would:eek:

Maybe our 'evil' socialist medi-care in the EU isn't so bad after all...:D My finger got a gash to the bone last April, bleeding like hell, couldn't staunch it.Couple of stitches, tetanus shot,pain-killers and attention from 2 VERY nice nurses and a friendly but not preety doctor 22 Euro (30 dollar), Friday night had to wait 35 mins. Then there's my glaucoma medication to stop me going blind, 3 bottles cost near 100 euro(lasts a month) I get them for 5 euro total. Tax we DO pay yes but it's worth it for medical care that covers the horrors in life(sudden accident,illness) Something to think about next election year:D

How's the wound working? An interesting thread thank you.
 
I use cyanoacrylate (superglue) all the time. My brother who is a traumacenter nurse gave me some tubes of Hystoacril sterile wound glue. It turns out it active ingredient is n-butyl-2cyanoacrylate.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate

If you are willing to pay the visit to the E.R. and get a medical bill for a FDA approved sterile glue that is your choice.

I just use my trusted tube of "superglue" and untill now it performed flawless.
It's also a great tool to have in your car or survival kit.

Just my 2 cents
 
i use it too. str even mentioned in a thread that he uses it. rubber bands and superglue will close up a good size cut if its like a flap. the rubber bands pull the flap down tight and keep it in position while it heals.
 
I worked in a woodshop for years. When we got cut we used to stick our hand in some thinner to "clean" it then we'd spray some poly over it to "close" it up so we wouldn't bleed so much.

I went back for a visit a few years later and the people working with those chemicals all wore respirators and gloves, and when they cleaned the spray booths, they wore haz-mat suits :eek:

Nothing bad ever happened, but might not be the best thing in the world to use shop stuff to take care of a cut!
 
got a buddy who was an army medic while earning his GI bill for vet school. They used sterile med-grade superglue for stitching up our soldiers, now as a veterinarian he uses fancy crazyglue on animals, and store stock crazyglue on himself

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Wish I could post a pic here. I recently acquired a very nice scar that wraps from the inside of the middle knuckle the outside of the last knuckle on my right pointer finger.

Did it cutting the cheese...literally. And with a knife I had freshly sharpened.

The good news is that it didn't hurt a bit...until later, blade "attacked" at a pretty steep angle. The blade went in a solid 3/8" but only got maybe a 1/4" deep. About an 1.5" long and all I did was superglue the baby shut and wrap with a little gauze and enougth athletic tape to keep me from bending it too much.

Turned out fine...didn't even get infected!!!

(Was actually a nursing major for quite some time...so I kind of feel a need to take credit for it not infecting.)

They definately would have given me 4-6 stitched if I'd went in.
 
I carry a tube in the trucks first aid kit and have used it several times. Get the skin lined up good before running a bead on top and it doesn't hardly leave a scar.
 
glue is used at er rooms,but this liquid adhesive is sterile and comes in a vial that u crush and apply the adhesive to the outside of the cut(laceration) in order to keep the bandage in place ,place the adhesive lateral to the cut place the bandage on one side first ,squeeze the lac together and then place the rest of the bandage to the other side of the cut, putting superglue inside the wound may cause infection and pain(burns) to the wound.
 
I work in a commerical cabinet shop, and occasionally get sliced open on a sheet of laminate, or a fresh cut peice of melamine off the router. Super glue is perfect for small cuts like that. Seals it right up so you can go back to work, and we have it on hand for work anyhow.
I don't use it on larger cuts because it seems to cauterize more than close wounds for me and it probably isn't the best stuff to introduce in your system. But for those nagging cuts and scrapes that won't stop bleeding, or you can't keep a band aid on its great.
 
go to www.mastisol.com for better instructions on how to apply the adhesive,go to patient instructions on the bottom of the page,not sure if u can get the product online but its states its over the counter so im sure u can.
 
I cut one inch off a one inch wide Nexcare flexible fabric band aid and use it as a butterfly closure, then I superglue the perimeter to the band aid to my finger or what ever. I put antiseptic sometimes on the fabric band aid and wrap with another band aid. I get no scarring and I don't have to pick acrylic out of the wound. It takes two-three days for the patch to come off by then the tissue is mended...Take Care...Ed
 
Some of the items that are very difficult to deal with are the spleen and liver.
Many years ago a Canadian doctor used a form a the commercial product and found it did magic on these internal organs. From there it has progressed to a medical product of approval . Many wounded military are helped with immediate, life saving care with this product. The exact difference is probably small considering the use versus non use in third world countries.
 
Stop using superglue for cuts unless no other alternative is available.

Several brands of "liquid bandage" are now available to the general public at any pharmacy, and it is a FAR superior product (flexible, breathable, water resistant, with antiseptic properties). I got 2 vials of "Redi Skin" for $4.99 at Walgreens, and used it for a skin graft. This stuff is amazing.
 
I first saw super glue type products used in surgery in the OR when I was in the AirForce in the 80s. The stuff took forever to set though compared to the stuff we can get now. Only difference is the set time based on what I can see reading the label. Well, that and the 'medical grade' rating it gets for surgery. I've used SuperGlue for as long as I can remember. Its all I ever use.

When I get impatient with a cut I have even been known to shove visine in the cut in large quantaties to stop the bleeding. It really does get the red out you know. :D and by narrowing those blood vessels shut since its basically a vaso constrictor. I've found some visine helps stop bleeding and seeping faster so I can apply some glue on it and blow it dry to get back to work that way.

As Jesse Ventura said in Predator, "I ain't got time to bleed" :eek:

STR
 
Last year I split my middle finger down the middle a little past the bone, once it stopped bleeding I put some superglue on it and it healed up just fine, and there's hardly any scarring at all. That's definitely the largest one I've used it on, but I made sure to have everything lined up before I put it on.
 
akivory said:
The idea of spending a Saturday night in the hospital emergency room full of drunks and being charged $600 did not appeal to me.
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The great irony is that sometime superglue is what they use in the ER too. :thumbup:



So, yes, superglue when you can....ER when you can't stop the bleeding...:(






I have a cut on my index finger right now - superglued - almost finished healing.



Here are my thoughts on it:

1 - it actually wears off by day's end
2 - I'm always sticking my hand in a bucket of water (to cool blades) or washing my hands (half-dozen or so times a day) and bandaids definitely don't hold a candle to superglue
3 - time. I get a cut, I reach over and squeeze some superglue into it (always handy in the shop) and get right back to work. Very little fuss.
4 - direct pressure works best to stop blood flow, then superglue it after you have it under control
5 - Do NOT...repeat...do NOT use the accelerator with cyanoacrylate. :eek:
 
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