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Could you not just use Superglue for a temporary fix before treatment?
by Sulfolobus 14y ago
Could you not just use Superglue for a temporary fix before treatment?
- richardlblair 14y agoSuperglue does work. But if you watch the video in the article there is no way you could apply Superglue to a cut that deep and that long.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoCouldn't you just use a piece of waterproof [well blood-proof] material lathered with superglue and slap it on; basically a superglue band-aid. That would contain the bleeding and be cheaper and easier to apply, presumably, than this solution. It would have the same problem of internal bleeding as well of course. With the OP's solution how do you remove it to treat the injury?
- aplusbi 14y agoIt would contain the bleeding but it wouldn't stop it.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoI understood that was what the gel in question did, contained the bleeding to prevent bleeding out before medical aid could be given. But, that it was not preventing the bleed from continuing internally. As you may guess I have basically no medical training so I may well have misunderstood.
- pyre 14y agoSuperglue probably wouldn't dry as fast. It might be toxic, depending on the chemicals. It sounds like this forces the blood to clot, I don't know if the blood would clot fast behind a superglue barrier.
- kefka 14y agoThe next time you use superglue (cyanoacrylate) and want it to dry and harden instantly, go get some baking soda and gently sprinkle the soda over the superglue. It instantly hardens, albeit with a mottled texture. I've done that before when I got superglue on my finger, and wasnt sure what was water and what was glue. Some baking soda, and it hardens for me to see and feel it. Also worked well on my RepRap, when I had my X-idler delaminate.
- chao- 14y agoI don't know enough to say why that would or wouldn't work in some absolute sense. But if we're comparing instead of talking absolutes, my first question to narrow it down is: "Doesn't superglue have some gnarly stuff in it? Stuff that you don't want in your body if an alternative like this exists?"
- hga 14y agoThat'll depend on the exact type of superglue, but there's a more basic problem in that the standard stuff uses a cyanoacrylate that often is an irritant. So they use a slightly different variety in medicine, first trade name Dermabond, which was used the last time I got a bad enough cut. It's really good stuff, but as noted elsewhere, not so applicable for catastrophic hemorrhage.
- mmariani 14y ago| Using ordinary Super Glue on wounds | can cause side effects, but a safer | alternative exists. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/health/04real.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/health/04real.html?_r=0
- eran_rl75 14y agoIs that for real ? Does Super glue on wounds is an existing alternative?
- mikeash 14y agoIf you go to the pharmacy and buy a bottle of liquid bandage, it's just superglue with antiseptics mixed in.
- maxerickson 14y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=Dermabond https://www.google.com/search?q=Dermabond
- eran_rl75 14y agoThat's amazing
- mikeash 14y agoIn my experience with superglue-based liquid bandage, it works poorly on an actively bleeding wound, as the blood mixes with and breaks through the glue before it sets.
- youngerdryas 14y agoHaving previously worked as a carpenter I have vast experience with moderate size cuts, and always had a bottle of brush-on superglue in my belt. If you rinse the cut and leave it a little damp when you apply the superglue it actually pulls the wound closed as it dries as well as killing any bacteria.