I agree. While in the Service, I had a vertical cut around my ankle area of about 2 inches, the MD poured some cleansing solution and looked for any debri, then on with the Crazy Glue he went. It worked like a charm. A few days later, the glue residue fell right off.
Cyanoacrylate (super glue) was actually developed during WW2 by the US military to do exactly that - treat combat wounds on the spot quickly and cheaply. It's sterile so it won't cause infection (as long as the wound is clean when applied), and can be produced extremely cheaply.
Well that is a version of glue made for medical purposes - I have had that used in place of stitches.
Sometimes the sensory cells don't match up properly and you wind up with a hair or two that grow thicker, with a sometimes unwanted bonus of having extra sensory abilities of being able to feel temperature and touch from a different area.
This is good for sealing up skin fast - but only if everything that got inside/under the skin is removed - otherwise you've just created an incubation chamber that may not get further treatment.
This is definitely better than running out of sterile bandaging, which comes along with it's own host of damage problems when exposed to the elements.
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Thanks, but I'll stick to super-glue.
I agree. While in the Service, I had a vertical cut around my ankle area of about 2 inches, the MD poured some cleansing solution and looked for any debri, then on with the Crazy Glue he went. It worked like a charm. A few days later, the glue residue fell right off.
Now THAT'S funny.
I wonder how much super glue costs when sold to the military.
yeh most of the liquid bandage products just use cyanoacrylate which is superglue
Cyanoacrylate (super glue) was actually developed during WW2 by the US military to do exactly that - treat combat wounds on the spot quickly and cheaply. It's sterile so it won't cause infection (as long as the wound is clean when applied), and can be produced extremely cheaply.
Well that is a version of glue made for medical purposes - I have had that used in place of stitches.
Sometimes the sensory cells don't match up properly and you wind up with a hair or two that grow thicker, with a sometimes unwanted bonus of having extra sensory abilities of being able to feel temperature and touch from a different area.
This is good for sealing up skin fast - but only if everything that got inside/under the skin is removed - otherwise you've just created an incubation chamber that may not get further treatment.
This is definitely better than running out of sterile bandaging, which comes along with it's own host of damage problems when exposed to the elements.
I have a big tube of CA glue (Cyanoacrylate) for gluin' tires for my Savage and T-Maxx.