I love superglue

[mrsflibble]

it has saved my family from many a trip to casualty.
and another one this morning note to self; toddlers and mirrors do not mix.

thankfully it's a small cut due to my creativity with the mirror; it had a mosaic edge stuck on with a glue strip called simplestick (Tea690; yes I do use it for everything) and this made it act almost like safety glass; it shattered but the pieces didn't go everywhere- well, all except the one which jabbed sophie in the leg.

small cut, quite deep, not gushing blood (and nowhere near an artery) and she caould still feel her toes. once we'd stemmed the flow it was on with the superglue, hold till set then top off with a plaster. she's now happily bouncing around none the worse for wear, but I'm still trying to not feel guilty about the mirror- it was my fault it was somewhere she could reach it.

This was a tip given to me by the doctor who stuck jim's ear back together after some numpty tried to beat the living cr@p out of him- long story. Bostik superglue is the brand our local hospital uses; so it's been my brand of choice for the last 5 years too. we have one tube for craft which can be any brand, and a tube of Bostik which is kept in the medicine box- along with the tube of remover for when I'm a little heavy handed and stick my fingers together with the craft stuff lol!!! again, saves a trip to casualty. I'm incredibly clumsy.

[tim&fatima]

I've never heard of that before!
does it really work?
it seems logical but does it sting and isn't it poisonous?

[Russian Doll]

personally wouldnt risk my kids with superglue for the sake of a trip to casualty but heh each to there own

cant see basildon hospital using bostik

[emmsy]

i've never heard of that

[Milims]

I've heard of it used many times - especially on head injuries where the skin is tight and very difficut to stitch

[wulf]

Here is the straight dope on superglue.

Wulf

[old tree man]

i have used it a few times especially when working with metal it gives you long fine deep cut and super glue holds it together great.
the hospitals have a type of superglue themselves that they use in casualty

[Milims]

Wulf - I read your link - very interesting. While I was in America a couple of years ago I bought a product called New Skin - which sounds like one mentioned in the link- my daughter wore flip flops for the first time in ages and ended up with a blister between her toes that popped and left a sore open would - impossible to put a plaster on! Although it hurt like bu**ery on application in worked really well. In fact it worked so well that I ended up taking it out onto the building site with me for the inevitable finger slashes! At the time it wasn't allowed in this country - but apparently it is now!

[Ellendra]

At the Antarctic Research Station they use it to seal cracks in the skin that form due to the cold and dry air.

[theabsinthefairy]

My other half is a mechanic and has always kept a tube of superglue in his tool box for the inevitable little cuts and slashes you get when working in a garage.
And it's something we have adopted through out the house.

Just make sure any wounds are clean before applying - and remember that the best thing for cleaning a wound is blood.

[Dori]

It's great for fixing broken nails as well... when they break really low down you can't cut the nail off.. glue it together until it's long enough.. works every time!

[Millymollymandy]

How completely bizarre.

Most people have to go to A&E to get superglue REMOVED from their skin. How are you going to remove it off a just healed and very tender piece of skin without ripping the whole thing open again?

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Well done Mrs F! I wouldn't have the nerve, nor the steadiness of hand required to do this, though I have seen it done.

When my middle daughter was about 10 months old, and I should add on the first day on which I was in charge after finishing work before we moved here, she fell off the sofa, hit her head on I do not know what and cut the back open to extent that her skull could be seen

Off we toddled to the Central Middlesex where the (very young) doctor whipped out a plain white tube and glued her head back together.

I asked what it was and was told rather pompously that it was a "cyanoacrylate based tissue binding agent." Happily I have a degree in chemistry and can traslate bullshite so asked him if he meant superglue. "Erm, yes, but we don't want people to know that."

The polymers breakdown harmlessly in the body, so there is no need to remove it after the wound has healed. Useful stuff.

[mrsflibble]

cant see basildon hospital using bostik

take a look at jim's ear next time we're round.

[mrsflibble]

and you don't need to remove it, once the skin is healed it pops off like a scab. it's amazing stuff. it stings slightly on application; like the newskin stuff; but it's only sort of a tickly stinging. it bonds in seconds so you only have to hold a wriggling toddler for the few seconds it takes to...well, take lol!
if we'd had any steristrips left I probably would have used one of those but the cut really didn't require casualty.
Soph keeps slowing me her knee and saying "cut. mirror." Glad to know other poeple use superglue too lol!