The Useful Thread
The Useful Thread
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I'd never done this before, despite having known about its use medically for years...
• If you've a sharp but not too long nor deep cut on your hands - eg. paper cuts or scalpel cuts along thumbprints and such, instead of using a plaster, just wait 'til any blood's coagulated, then put a small drop of superglue (cyanoacrylate) on the wound and then press to seal.
I get a lot of wee cuts on my hands from what I do and I sincerely wish I'd started doing this years ago - instead of spending a couple of days with a mostly-unusable thumb that gets in the way with typing or paper, I can use thing as normal.
Amazeballs.
(I'd *really* not do this on anything beyond sharp, neat and superficial wounds, obv)
- Yeah, superglue was primarily developed to be used by the military - mostly in Vietnam, I think? Instant way of closing a wound to keep out infection.face_melter
- Apparently not —it was invented by Kodak in WW2 for gluing sights to guns. I say this knowledgably, but I only read as much an hour ago..!detritus
- I keep superglue in my camping med kit. I buy the single use ones:
https://www.amazon.c…Gnash - ^ this will go in my backcountry kit. Thanks!klar
- need for my backpacking kit. good callcapn_ron
- Duct tape toocannonball1978
- ^ always :)Gnash
- Ah well. I probably got it mixed up with them using it in Vietnam as a quick-fix solution.face_melter
- Until yesterday I thought as much myself, face!detritus
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