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You know that flap of 'webbing' skin between your thumb and your index finger? Yeah, I had that ripped down to where I could literally see my tendons working...
Here in the USA, hospital bills are ridiculous! So, after like a half hour of washing and waiting for the bleeding to slow almost to a stop, I used super glue and a piece of paper towel to patch over it.
Since it cured so fast, I had to use some acetone to rub over the top of my wound patch, to smooth out the rough dried glue. Then I went and bought a pair of bicycle gloves. I only needed the right glove, to protect my homemade bandage.
Every 2 or 3 days, I had to maintain my bandage rigup, which basically meant peel that shit off, investigate, and use tweezers to pull super glue out of the wound as it healed. I wasn't looking to have super glue get grown in under the skin ya know..
It took about a month before it fully healed, no noticeable scar and no stitches. Hand works fine too. ๐
Disclaimer: Not a doctor, I just did what I felt best, and it worked.
Glad to hear it worked out so well for you! Thanks for the testimony, I've heard super glue prevents scars but yours is the first personal confirmation, very cool.
Surgical tech here - we use a similar in surgery sometimes called "Dermabond" (it's basically super glue for skin).
It can be good for closing a clean incision, like if you get sliced with a razor and the skin edges almost seal themselves on their own.
Jagged lacerations or open abrasions, or a flap like the previous poster described are NOT good candidates for that type of product, especially if you're awake when it's applied, cuz that stuff hurts like a motherfucker when it's drying.
Other than pain, if it dries when the skin isn't perfectly aligned, it can make scaring worse; and unless you irrigate the fuck out of it with some kind of antimicrobial solution, that's a lot of surface area to harbor a pathogen that leads to an infection. And you do not want to fuck around with things like necrotizing fasciitis (image search that if you want some nightmare fuel).
As the dumbfuck that actually did that, I almost wholeheartedly agree, such measures should only be temporary at most, until they get to the hospital.
At least I dropped the disclaimer, I'm no doctor, I'm just a knucklehead, one that's had pain level 13 on the 10 scale before, so super glue drying in my wound didn't even bother me.
Hey, even as temporary use, at least super glue might help keep the patient from leaking out...