Supergluing a papercut closed a bad idea?

[Shawn]

If I only put the glue on the outside of the cut, not the inside. It hurts like a bitch and I don't like band aids. Plus it's on the tip of my finger. Thoughts?

 

[imported_LoKe]

It needs to breathe.

 

[waggy]

superglue is close to the glue they use in emergency rooms etc

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: waggy
superglue is close to the glue they use in emergency rooms etc

4 more posts til you're a lifer man. you can do it!

 

[Cattlegod]

i think it is fine. i thought super glue was originally developed to close wounds on the battlefield for the armed forces.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: LoKe
It needs to breathe.

Not if nothing bad is trapped in there.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: waggy
superglue is close to the glue they use in emergency rooms etc

Dermabond?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Ok, then wash it/disinfect it and then go for it.

 

[Yzzim]

Just got a cut from opening cardboard boxes. Tried band-aids and that didn't work. Superglue was my next idea and its worked great so far.

I'm still alive anyway

Brother in law is a surgeon's assistant and said superglue is very similar to what they use when performing surgery.

 

[Beller0ph1]

Yes, superglue is similiar to Dermabond, but it's not the same. Superglue has some nasty chemicals in it that Dermabond doesn't have. Using superglue on your bare skin could cause a chemical burn depending on how sensitive you are. I'd stick with Neosporin and Band-aids.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: waggy
superglue is close to the glue they use in emergency rooms etc

Dermabond?

yeah that could be the stuff. Superglue was orginally intended to close wounds on the battlefield.

The stuff they have now is just a slight change on the formula.

 

[Apex]

Superglue works just fine.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I'm freaking amazed at the surgeries that come out of the OR with the surgical wounds glued.

When I started as a nurse, the patients having their gallbladders taken out were in the hospital for days, and hurt like a SOB, had scars & drains, now they come out with 4 or 5 small superglued holes in their abdomen & we send them home.

 

[mugs]

Probably not a bad idea, but completely unneccessary... it's a paper cut.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: mugs
Probably not a bad idea, but completely unneccessary... it's a paper cut.

The only options are a bandage or superglue, and he hates bandages.

Mt bikers sometimes carry superglue for cuts.

 

[Kanalua]

duct/duck tape works good. My Brother-in-law sliced OFF a piece of his thumbs, just the fleshy part, and he held it back in place with duct/k tape and the slice of skin (about the size of a dime) reattacted itself...

So I guess you could use that to "sew" shut your paper cut...

and I guess super glue would work for your papercut.

 

[ElFenix]

band aid brand liquid bandages is basically super glue

 

[her209]

Be a man!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: her209
Be a man!

yeah....what ever happened to letting it get infected and moving on with your life?!

 

[yoda291]

contractors and construction workers also use electrical tape for bandages.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: her209
Be a man!

yeah....what ever happened to letting it get infected and moving on with your life?!

I've never gotten an infection... ever!

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: yoda291
contractors and construction workers also use electrical tape for bandages.

Makes sense.

I was going to say that this sounds liek it is yet another use for duct tape.

 

[Lonyo]

 

[cheesehead]

Cyanoacrylate is harmless.
It's the solvents that they use to dissolve it that are nasty.