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super glue
mrankh
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im going to start carrying a bottle in my pocket every day to work
nothing better to put on a cut
nothing better to put on a cut
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The new junk they make now days don't hold worth a crud.
would be a hard sell. dermabond is $70 each.
that's a lot of crazy glue......
tom
..Wife cut herself between the eyes and the ER doc used Derma-Bond. Great stuff but too pricey for me.
Just make sure you let it dry thoroughly before using the mens room.
There is a product I use often called "New Skin". It smells like nail polish but it sure works on small cuts. Lasts a long time and seems to speed healing too. I don't know what's in super glue but can't doubt it's good for you.
Maybe you should look at other replies before you reply it's amazing what you can learn.[;)]
Get yourself some New Skin bowlers have been using it for hundreds of years.
..When we bowled on leagues, I always had NewSkin in the bowling bag. My fingers would split in cold, dry weather.
There is a product I use often called "New Skin". It smells like nail polish but it sure works on small cuts. Lasts a long time and seems to speed healing too. I don't know what's in super glue but can't doubt it's good for you.
Super glue is what the navy medics carried when I was in the suck.
Cut a finger almost to the bone while in the field.
Medic grabbed it, rinsed with water, then got it bleeding real good.
Then held the cut open, and filled it up with super glue.
Said, if it don't heal up good, go to medical when we get outta the field.
It never got infected, and never bled again.
That was '92 at camp Fuji on mainland Japan.
Still can feel a lump in my finger where the cut was.
There is a product I use often called "New Skin". It smells like nail polish but it sure works on small cuts. Lasts a long time and seems to speed healing too. I don't know what's in super glue but can't doubt it's good for you.
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C&P -
The glue doesn't interfere with healing, and it seals excellently. It is as resistent to abscessing as staples, and seals far better. For
wounds in animals which have been anticoagulated, it's a godsend.
Survival animals which have catheters pulled later suffer no ill
effects, and the wounds heal fine.
Steve Harris, M.D. (http://yarchive.net/med/superglue.html)
[;)]
It's really good first aid stuff.
Locatite IS496. I glued a ?1 coin to a steel mark out table some 15 years ago, the coin looks worse for wear, but its still there, with its chisel, hammer & saw marks [:D]
I have a tube of 454 instant adhesive I carry in my tool bag for cuts.
If you get one of those cuts where if you brush the skin one way it feels like raw nerve. That is were this stuff is priceless. Clean up the wound(don't want to super glue crap under the skin) push the flap of skin down and dab a blob of glue on and let dry.
CA is a great workshop solution because it instantly and securely seals off the cut and quickly eliminates pain (because the pain, apparently, is from oxygen hitting the exposed nerve endings ). It wears off naturally in a day or two, so you may need to reapply - but by then, the bleeding has stopped and the pain is much less anyway. CA apparently also reduces scarring.
Experts (who are these guys anyway?) say that CA can irritate the skin and should not be used on deep cuts . A more helpful "expert" advises that over-the-counter CA is less preferred because it has a cheaper type of methyl alcohol in it. No one seems to have a problem with using CA on smallish surface cuts, especially those that can easily be closed up while glued. For a medical variant of CA, try Dermabond , Band-Aid Liquid Bandage or 3M No-Sting Liquid Bandage Spray .
http://adventuresinwoodworking.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/super-glue-safe-for-treating-cuts/
quote:Originally posted by fideau
There is a product I use often called "New Skin". It smells like nail polish but it sure works on small cuts. Lasts a long time and seems to speed healing too. I don't know what's in super glue but can't doubt it's good for you.
Maybe you should look at other replies before you reply it's amazing what you can learn.[;)]
That was not there when I started typing my reply. Sometimes I am a little slow. Maybe you should KMA.
Get yourself some New Skin bowlers have been using it for hundreds of years.
I use that stuff. It can be killer to apply to an open wound though. (It says not to)
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I grabbed the super glue to seal a cut and I got a nasty nasty infection and my hand looked bad. Doc said don't use super glue and the Surgeons use a different type so becareful.
I'm sure they have refined the process and the recipe has changed some. I'm thinking the difference in the medical stuff and the over the counter stuff may be the purity of the solvent. During distillation, they get layers of solvents, Chlorine, formaldehyde and other stuff. I'm sure there is some cross contamination in the process. Some of the products of the process are poisons.
I'm not a chemist, but did do some piping for a factory that produced the stuff.