His old electrician is correct. Paper towel wrapped around the wound, wrap it with one layer of duct tape or gaffers tape and you’re good to keep working. This is one of those ‘everybody who’s ever worked a trade knows it’ type things.
For anyone else coming along, hydrocolloid bandages once you have a moment to treat it.
Sliced my finger open, brand new razor blade, like a yawning mouth. Staunched the bleeding, wrapped a hydrocolloid bandage around it, bloody and dirty and all, good to go. Let it set for 2 days until the pain calmed down enough to re-wrap, showered, another hydrocolloid bandage. No antibiotics, nothing. 4-days, brand new skin, finger bends, no scar. And I’m 54, not exactly Wolverine.
I could sell those things all day long, best first-aid tech I’ve discovered. Nothing will heal a wound faster.
Yes, they cost way more than a regular bandaid, but you only need one, and you’re healed fast. Generic is fine, but as usual, BandAid™ brand works best, better glue and easier to apply. I mostly keep the cheap shit, some BandAid™ for the ‘special’ wounds.
Superglue for paper-cut wounds! Yes, it stings for 20-seconds, grow a fucking pair, then it’s over and healed in 24-hours.
Did you hear about any of those 20 products from someone else and can you ask that person about their experience with it? If so great, if not, know that 18 of them were made in the same factory and it really comes down to customer support anyways.
There is medical grade super glue, and I highly recommend using it over the standard stuff, primarily because the chemicals in regular superglue isn’t great for your cut.
that article is a little funny. Dont use glitter glue to close up surgery. And dont hot glue yourself back together.
There is some difference in dermabond and superglue, one big one is fda approval. There is a toxicity difference, the fda product has a more expensive manufacturing process.
I will add, for me, I never glue a cut shut unless I know its clean. which means it is getting rinsed in a bath of rubbing alcohol. I have had great results myself. I am not a doctor or trained as one.
Well, they’ve certainly worked out a proper solution since them. I had laparoscopic surgery and they didn’t so much sew me up as calk up my holes and send me home.
Now engineers from MIT and Freie Universität Berlin have developed a new type of glue that combines the waterproof stickiness of the mussels’ plaques with the germ-proof properties of another natural material: mucus.
“Depending on how much cross-linking (chemical bonds) you have, we can control the speed at which the liquids gelate and adhere,” Haag adds. “We can do this all on wet surfaces, at room temperature, and under very mild conditions. This is what is quite unique.”
Cool. Actually, I think that is where I heard about the original formulas not being ideal. (My brain can store random factoids really well, but will always discard the source.)
I think you have to be very careful with that. My dog got a bad laceration one time, and luckily we were able to provide pressure and bring them straight to the vet which was close by, and while I was there I mentioned that I had thought about using super glue to close it, and they were mortified. Mortified. They said it would have made him extremely sick.
Apparently the glue they used to close wounds, which acts like super glue is very different than actual super glue.
His old electrician is correct. Paper towel wrapped around the wound, wrap it with one layer of duct tape or gaffers tape and you’re good to keep working. This is one of those ‘everybody who’s ever worked a trade knows it’ type things.
Also anyone who grew up poor. Ain’t no bandaids in the house but there’s tp and electrical tape.
For anyone else coming along, hydrocolloid bandages once you have a moment to treat it.
Sliced my finger open, brand new razor blade, like a yawning mouth. Staunched the bleeding, wrapped a hydrocolloid bandage around it, bloody and dirty and all, good to go. Let it set for 2 days until the pain calmed down enough to re-wrap, showered, another hydrocolloid bandage. No antibiotics, nothing. 4-days, brand new skin, finger bends, no scar. And I’m 54, not exactly Wolverine.
I could sell those things all day long, best first-aid tech I’ve discovered. Nothing will heal a wound faster.
Yes, they cost way more than a regular bandaid, but you only need one, and you’re healed fast. Generic is fine, but as usual, BandAid™ brand works best, better glue and easier to apply. I mostly keep the cheap shit, some BandAid™ for the ‘special’ wounds.
Superglue for paper-cut wounds! Yes, it stings for 20-seconds, grow a fucking pair, then it’s over and healed in 24-hours.
Is this a ad?
The best advertising is word of mouth for good reason
Word of mouth was powerful when I was young. Products sucks? Everyone knows it. Now we have 20 products for niche needs. How can we sort that out?
Did you hear about any of those 20 products from someone else and can you ask that person about their experience with it? If so great, if not, know that 18 of them were made in the same factory and it really comes down to customer support anyways.
If it is it worked.
If I were advertising for BandAid™ brand, I certainly wouldn’t mention cheaper alternatives. Learn some discernment.
Super glue is my go to. Just glue that shit right back closed like it never happened. Then some tape to make sure it stays closed through the day.
There is medical grade super glue, and I highly recommend using it over the standard stuff, primarily because the chemicals in regular superglue isn’t great for your cut.
that article is a little funny. Dont use glitter glue to close up surgery. And dont hot glue yourself back together.
There is some difference in dermabond and superglue, one big one is fda approval. There is a toxicity difference, the fda product has a more expensive manufacturing process.
I will add, for me, I never glue a cut shut unless I know its clean. which means it is getting rinsed in a bath of rubbing alcohol. I have had great results myself. I am not a doctor or trained as one.
I believe that was one of its first proposed uses, but is too brittle (or breaks down too quick?) to be a “proper” medical solution.
Well, they’ve certainly worked out a proper solution since them. I had laparoscopic surgery and they didn’t so much sew me up as calk up my holes and send me home.
Your choice of words is commendable.
Medical super glue exists! It has additional compounds in it to slow down the heating/bonding period and to add flexibility
Veritasium recently did a video on super glue
I love stuff like this! I saw this on my radar recently, It’s gross but cool! Engineers create new glue that mimics mussels and mucus to prevent bacterial buildup
Cool. Actually, I think that is where I heard about the original formulas not being ideal. (My brain can store random factoids really well, but will always discard the source.)
Only took like 50yrs
I think you have to be very careful with that. My dog got a bad laceration one time, and luckily we were able to provide pressure and bring them straight to the vet which was close by, and while I was there I mentioned that I had thought about using super glue to close it, and they were mortified. Mortified. They said it would have made him extremely sick.
Apparently the glue they used to close wounds, which acts like super glue is very different than actual super glue.
Let it bleed for a while and clean itself out first though. Then some shop towel and electrical tape.