New Skin!

BaliLover

BaliLover

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Last night I was flipping the 5" FHM I won during the x-mas contest (Thanks Susan) and I somehow managed to get my handles reversed with doing a basic twirl. The blade contacted my finger and made a small cut but when the heavy handle contacted the back of the blade it drove the blade into my finger down and sideways. Instantly I grabbed a Zip Tie and put it around the base of my finger and pulled tight (this almost always works to stop bleeding.) After a while I cut the zip tie off but with only one or two flips I was gushing blood all over. I broke out another zip tie, attached it as before, but once the bleeding stopped I cleaned the wound and applied this stuff called New Skin. It's just like super glue but it's sterile. I glued the flap of skin down then applied the band-aid. Now I am still able to flip without soaking the band-aid. I higly recommend this stuff. It works great to totally protect small cuts and helps alot on larger ones.

And to think, I was gonna put a razor edge on the FHM.
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Glad I didn't, I might have cut the finger off if I had.
 
Hey, never heard of the zip-tie thing. Did you discover that yourself?

So you didn't even cover it the first time you just cut the circulation till it stopped bleeding?

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"Feel the pain, feel the joy, of a man... who was never a boy." - Earl Simmons
 
Balilover,
be carefull with that stuff! I have a bottle of it siting in front of me now. I carry it with me all the time now. I'm seem to always stick my hand and/or fingers in the wrong place at the wrong time! Anyway, read the lable good. It warns you not to use it on deep wounds or puncture wounds. The reason it says that is because it can trap any infection in the wound, and then with no way out, it just gets more infection built up.

I used it on a small puncture wound left by my cat. I was peting him, another cat hissed, he spazzed out and bit me! Tooth went straight in, straight out, of my vain on my wrist! Bleed realy bad untill it closed up, what a mess. Anyway, after a day or two, with no visiable redness, I thought it would be better than a band-aid. It got sore, red, and slightly swolen in two days after I put that stuff on it. After geting that stuff out of the wound, it oozed, then healed in two or three days.

So if you stabb yourself, or get a really deep cut, don't use it. For all the little cuts, scraps, and small wounds of unknown origin, that stuff is great. My only complaint is that it smells like fingernail polish. If that cut you have now sarts to get red, get the New-Skin off, and bandage it like normal. Sounds like you might be able trap some infection under that flap of skin.

FYI: Did you know that "super-glue" was invented to be used as liquid stiches!? Wonder why it never caught on for that use. To many doctors glueing themselves to the patiants I guess
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A man who knows not, and knows not that he knows not is a fool, avoid him. A man who knows not, and knows that he knows not is a wise man, teach him.
 
Balilover,
be carefull with that stuff! I have a bottle of it siting in front of me now. I carry it with me all the time now. I'm seem to always stick my hand and/or fingers in the wrong place at the wrong time! Anyway, read the lable good. It warns you not to use it on deep wounds or puncture wounds. The reason it says that is because it can trap any infection in the wound, and then with no way out, it just gets more infection built up.

I used it on a small puncture wound left by my cat. I was peting him, another cat hissed, he spazzed out and bit me! Tooth went straight in, straight out, of my vain on my wrist! Bleed realy bad untill it closed up, what a mess. Anyway, after a day or two, with no visiable redness, I thought it would be better than a band-aid. It got sore, red, and slightly swolen in two days after I put that stuff on it. After geting that stuff out of the wound, it oozed, then healed in two or three days.

So if you stabb yourself, or get a really deep cut, don't use it. For all the little cuts, scraps, and small wounds of unknown origin, that stuff is great. My only complaint is that it smells like fingernail polish. If that cut you have now sarts to get red, get the New-Skin off, and bandage it like normal. Sounds like you might be able trap some infection under that flap of skin.

FYI: Did you know that "super-glue" was invented to be used as liquid stiches!? Wonder why it never caught on for that use. To many doctors glueing themselves to the patients I guess
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A man who knows not, and knows not that he knows not is a fool, avoid him. A man who knows not, and knows that he knows not is a wise man, teach him.
 
I used the new skin also. It worked great on thumbs and index finger under sports tape to prevent blisters at a shooting school I attended.

 
Well, I discovered the Zip Tie thing along time ago out of necessity. I cut the pad of one of my fingers almost completely off while working on a car and I couldn't find any string to tie off the wound and stop bleeding but since I work around cars alot I did have a bunch of zip ties. It worked for me but be careful when you cut it off.

As for using it on deep wounds, I had to use it to keep the flap of skin in place, sometimes it will re-connect ( the pad of my finger reconnected but that section of finger print doesn't line up with the rest). I have used super glue quite a bit too since I don't always have bandages around. The thing with super glue and any liquid bandages is that you MUST stop the bleeding or it will blow blood bubbles in the glue.
 
Whew skin glue nifty!
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Superglue in my blood? Doesn't sound too good. In fact superglue on my skin doesn't feel too good.

Anyway about your finger pad being cut off and reconnecting it... That's really nasty. But cool, I didn't know you could do that. So you now have one finger with a warped fingerprint that no one can identify, right?

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"May your blade chip and shatter..." - Paul Atreides, Frank Herbert's Dune
 
I've never had any problems with superglue over cuts except it is hard to remove. Yes, that description pretty much sums up my finger (left middle) except now I have a distinct finger print that wouldn't be too hard to identify. The finger has normal sensitivity but if someone else touches it feels harder than a normal fingertip.
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Harvie:
FYI: Did you know that "super-glue" was invented to be used as liquid stiches!? Wonder why it never caught on for that use. To many doctors glueing themselves to the patients I guess
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When I cut myself accidentally on the blades of my blender, the nurse glued the wound together! And asked twenty stupid questions on how I got the cut.. she didn't seem to believe my story... what's it to her anyway?


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Balisong Sweden
 
I have never been cut on a blender, that had to hurt. I have never heard of glue being used in the USA by a doctor or nurse.

I had a friend who cut his thumb pad off with a food can lid. He got stiches at the hospital, but no glue.

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A man who knows not, and knows not that he knows not is a fool, avoid him. A man who knows not, and knows that he knows not is a wise man, teach him.
 
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