19401
As much as I loved reading that, you should have just bandaged it like a normal person.19407
I had some reasons to test the function of cyanacrylates on wounds recently, they are the best and least risky solution for anything wounded on the bodies outer layers, interestingly enough.
Always removing shattered skin pieces beforehand, then using spirit or isopropanol alcohol to disinfect the wound as deep as possible. Then add some superglue of acceptable purity (most are nowadays as it's easy to produce clean cyanacrylate and it helps their gluing power as well) and -then- the fun begins..
.. with activator spray.
The cyanacrylate will not burn or hurt in the wound at all, as on contact with any watery liquid like blood it hardens very quickly. As such it is technically impossible to actually "flow" into the blood stream, it would harden and stick to whatever it is applied to.
But the higher areas of the "drop" don't, and here comes activator spray into game, as it is just a very quickly vaporizing liquid solvent mostly based on acetone and aggression reducing additions (which as example prevent the skin from drying out instantly).
As this activated quick-curing runs exotherm, it will hurt, because that small droplet will shortly reach 70 to 90 degree celsius. But this is not a bad concept, because it actually kills surface-near bacteria to a degree and might even stop bleeding - but is not long enough to damage deeper skin layers (actually the surface of the wound will be unimpressed by that short term heat).
As such it's a quite self-cleaning mechanism. Had the case where a well-cleaned and disinfected wound was still bearing small remainings of the mechanical contact material, which I couldn't get out due to the bleeding. Because cyanacrylate dissolves / loosens in two conditions: wet and warm quite quickly, after hours to 2-3 days - this means it's easy to remove after 1-2 days and re-apply.
And everything which is not actually a part of the flesh wound itself - which stays in the wet lipid-repairing consistence below the hardened glue layer - will get glued on it permanently on application (while the wound will not, it only sticks very slightly and loosens itself after 2-3 days completely) and get removed easily. It's really a wonderful solution.
Bandage?? Nah, amputate and cauterize! LolAs much as I loved reading that, you should have just bandaged it like a normal person.
Oh, for the days when phlebotomies cured everything.Bandage?? Nah, amputate and cauterize! Lol
My 4th humor is a little low, tell Dracula to come over here and relieve me if some of that bad blood!18416
Oh, for the days when phlebotomies cured everything.
Did that with another wound which happened to appear as a result of a slight body mod (nothing unnatural, actually - piercings are a thing, you know).Bandage?? Nah, amputate and cauterize! Lol
18415
I am actually doing this often enough, but from my playing with canids am somewhat more direct in my approaches regarding recovering of usability of extremities without loosing life essence (blood) in big amounts.19414
As much as I loved reading that, you should have just bandaged it like a normal person.
Still, gluing wounds shut is an emergency treatment. You really shouldn't do it long-term.
Okay then, I'm not your doctor or your pharmacist, so I can't tell you what to do.I won't use 2k epoxy or aggressive chemical glues for the gluing, no panic. But what doesn't travel in the body or stay liquid after contact with the wound, can hardly be more dangerous to the wound compared to a "sterile" bandage which ain't sterile anymore the second after application due to the surrounding skin (which on field accidents rarely gets wholly scrubbed by Iod and sanitizers to remove the abstrusely high amount of potential dangerous bacteria on it as example - while the glue actually encapsulates a part of those and seals the remaining from entering).
The longer that "soaking" applied bandage stays, the bigger is the collection of potential dangerous bacteria, viruses and other chemicals / byproducts / insect attracting remainings the body produces to close the wound shut itself.
As such I'll stay with gluing it shut on the surface, if this is necessary. Not necessary on smaller wounds, but I don't enjoy visiting hospitals (last visit was with an almost separated finger, really had a hard time choosing "stay for 16 hours over night for a well-made surgery result" over "just amputate the remaining flesh, shut it close and send me home").