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Before the virus closing I put a kit in our church, beat up the intruder, then patch him up!

After all the input here I suppose I could use it if needed. I have some super glue here. Made by loctite and the warnings state that it may cause allergic reactions, and may cause burns, can cause severe eye injury, and avoid skin & eye contact. But I've had that stuff stuck on an uninjured finger many times with no reactions. So I guess in a pinch I'll give it a whirl. I just hope there's not some type of carcinogenic "payback" coming somewhere years down the road.

Dress with gauze pads and bandage with tape, a triangle bandage or some Kerlix/vet wrap.


Clean first.

Our CVS here has medical grade Super Glue, which I purchased a couple of years ago. Once you open it and use it, throw the rest away. Regular super glue is not good for your skin.

I commercially pan fish most of the year and often suffer from cuts and splits on my fingers and thumb especially in the winter. I tried the liquid skin but it doesn't hold up. Super glue is what I found best for keeping the splits from getting worse.

New Skin is pretty cool, and smells good too.

Blu Kote is amazing. Kills athletes foot, and sterilizes wounds.

Wonder Dust sprinkled on a cut works too.

Yep, dont squirt that stuff in your eye. Painful as all get out. A vet I treated who filled his eyes with it when the tube exploded in his face while trying to glue an operated cat up. Bofe eyes. Assistant drove him in because of pain. I had told them to just soak in AB ung on the phone before he came in not realizing how bad it was.
He ended up taking a piece of a pain pill for horses after I got a little erythromycin ung in one eye after getting enough out of the lashes to get the lid open a bit. It took a few days of working on him as the suff loosened up and patching him to prevent corneal tears and abrasions.

A day or so later a little AA boy came in with one eye glued shut. This was after 10 years with no such cases.

Yep. Dont get it in your eyes or squeeze hard to squirt some out of a tube.

I use 3M Vetbond. Non-toxic and it is dyed blue so easier to tell where the stuff is and isn't.

A few years back when i was living in the Keys i had 2 brothers both Dentists out fishing on the reef.
I had broken a tooth off on my partial plate which was very visable.
One of them asked me if the tooth had been broken, to which i said no, it simply came off the plate while i was biting down on an apple.
He then said just use some Super Glue to put it back on the plate.
I looked at him i guess in disbelief of what he said.
But he laughed and said how do you think we fix them?
I did it and it held up just fine with no issues.

If we are talking about stitches..... If it's a long ways to town and not arterial bleeding, Wound Seal or vet's Wonder Dust (Tractor Supply) is the berries with a kotex pressure bandage held on with electrical tape. The loggers friend. Chain saw cuts are gory. The little commonly sold first aid kits are useless, other than the gauze pads and rolls of gauze.

If you seal the entire wound there's no drainage. Get an infection under that and you end up with a real mess. So warned my vet friend who had to deal with that.

Is it recommended to stall diarrhea until you get back to camp?

A good start for many would be to enter wound care in the search box on You Tube. Some excellent presentations from professionals. Or you can just buy some tourniquets and a jug of super glue and go full bubba.


mike r

Not an EMT or anything close, but folks that have worked with stock and in remote/semi-remote areas are by and large passing familiar with stopping a bleed, and wound care. Physiology can't be that different.

Improper use of a tourniquet could cost a limb or worse, kill your patient, if you don’t know how to properly use one.

I’m a good field medic. I even carry a 5 mil bottle of Lidocaine for suturing. Mucho better than saying “here, take a long pull on my whiskey flask and hold still”.....Grins 😎

What do ya mean? Tourniquets are excellent for head wounds. No patient has complained yet.

Actually short of a traumatic amputation tourniquets are almost always a bad idea.

There's a crazy idea.

That would be a cork wouldn't it?