Liquid Plaster

[pavman]

Cut myself at the weekend and Mrs P applied a thin coat of “Liquid Plaster†it made a glue like skin and stopped the bleeding right away, dried very quick and the cut has healed clean 3 days later,

 

Suspect it would work on dogs as well for minor scrapes and cuts in the field well worth having in your kit bag

[Dougy]

We used something like that years ago in the butchering trade, only it was called new skin, it used to make your eyes water

 

i am sure it started off being developed for use in the services for quick patching up in the field,

ie; for closing up open wounds

[dustyfox]

I used it when I got cut on the nose a couple of months ago, it was that germoline one and it exactly smelt like super glue, and it stings when you apply it.

[Zapp]

it still stings like a son of a bitch

 

Does it ever!! I put some of that inside a popped blister when I was in the army and went from sitting on my bed to shreaking like a girl and pumelling the wall in a single movement

 

ZB

[Highlander]

Yep Germolene New Skin brilliant stuff when your hands are wet, cold and cracking up. Yep it stings like hell but then we're not a bunch of pussys here on PW are we.

[Andy RV]

I used super glue on the end of my finger that i cut badly the other week, worked a treat, didn't sting either.

[pavman]

I used super glue on the end of my finger that i cut badly the other week, worked a treat, didn't sting either.

 

 

you jest surely

[starlight32]

I used super glue on the end of my finger that i cut badly the other week, worked a treat, didn't sting either.

 

 

you jest surely

 

Liquid plaster- really what ever gimick is their going to be next

 

I prefer to cauterize the wound by pulling open a new rifle case, pouring the powder in and lighting it.

 

See it in a film once and worked for me ever since.

 

Hard as nails us suffolk boys.......

[kdubya]

I used super glue on the end of my finger that i cut badly the other week, worked a treat, didn't sting either.

 

 

you jest surely

 

I believe superglue was developed during the vietnam war to deal with major trauma in the "sticks" so to speak? I know

that people on expeds etc to well out of the way places carry superglue just in case of a bad cut,not sure why it is not considered as a standard treatment, toxicity was supposed to be an issue but not proven?

cheers KW

[Ice]

I used super glue on the end of my finger that i cut badly the other week, worked a treat, didn't sting either.

 

 

you jest surely

 

I believe superglue was developed during the vietnam war to deal with major trauma in the "sticks" so to speak?

 

 

You been watching "Dog Soildiers" recently?? lol

[gixer1]

I agree with the super glue on the hands as i have used it to seal up small cuts but BE AWARE - I know a person who was using it to glue a crown in place on the right side of the mouth and after a while she went to the doc's as a bald patch was developing on the right side of the head and this was diagnosed as the toxins in the glue travelling though the blood stream!

 

Regards,

 

Garry.

[Dr W]

I agree with the super glue on the hands as i have used it to seal up small cuts but BE AWARE - I know a person who was using it to glue a crown in place on the right side of the mouth and after a while she went to the doc's as a bald patch was developing on the right side of the head and this was diagnosed as the toxins in the glue travelling though the blood stream!

 

Regards,

 

Garry.

 

She was putting super glue in her mouth???

[gixer1]

She certainly was....not the only person to have done this either! I know of an old guy that used to sit scraping the old crusty superglue off his push in false tooth prior to adding a new layer of glue and putting it back in! to be honest he never seemed to have any ill effects!

 

Garry.

[mickeylove]

I got kicked by a horse and superglued the cut back together, the next day my arm went red and hot, so, supecting blood poisoning i opened it up again and all manner of gunge came out. Moral of the story= make sure the wounds clean before doing anything! (Don't try to get the dog to lick it either.)

[Browning GTS]

I used super glue on the end of my finger that i cut badly the other week, worked a treat, didn't sting either.

 

 

you jest surely

 

I believe superglue was developed during the vietnam war to deal with major trauma in the "sticks" so to speak? I know

that people on expeds etc to well out of the way places carry superglue just in case of a bad cut,not sure why it is not considered as a standard treatment, toxicity was supposed to be an issue but not proven?

cheers KW

 

As with many urban legends there's a mix of fact and fiction in what your brother-in-law said. In contrast to most such cases, though, this one's a lot more fact than fiction.

 

Super glue, Krazy glue, Eastman 910 and similar glues are all a special type of glue called cyanoacrylates. Cyanoacrylates were invented in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover of Kodak Laboratories during experiments to make a special extra-clear plastic suitable for gun sights. He found they weren't suitable for that purpose, so he set the formula aside. Six years later he pulled it out of the drawer thinking it might be useful as a new plastic for airplane canopies. Wrong again--but he did find that cyanoacrylates would glue together many materials with incredible strength and quick action, including two very expensive prisms when he tried to test the ocular qualities of the substance. Seeing possibilities for a new adhesive, Kodak developed "Eastman #910" (later "Eastman 910") a few years later as the first true "super glue." In a now-famous demonstration conducted in 1959, Dr. Coover displayed the strength of this new product on the early television show "I've Got a Secret," where he used a single drop placed between two steel cylinders to lift the host of the show, Garry Moore, completely off of the ground.

 

The use of cyanoacrylate glues in medicine was considered fairly early on. Eastman Kodak and Ethicon began studying whether the glues could be used to hold human tissue together for surgery. In 1964 Eastman submitted an application to use cyanoacrylate glues to seal wounds to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Soon afterward Dr. Coover's glue did find use in Vietnam--reportedly in 1966 cyanoacrylates were tested on-site by a specially trained surgical team, with impressive results. According to an interview with Dr. Coover by the Kingsport Times-News:

 

Coover said the compound demonstrated an excellent capacity to stop bleeding, and during the Vietnam War, he developed disposal cyanoacrylate sprays for use in the battle field.

 

"If somebody had a chest wound or open wound that was bleeding, the biggest problem they had was stopping the bleeding so they could get the patient back to the hospital. And the consequence was--many of them bled to death. So the medics used the spray, stopped the bleeding, and were able to get the wounded back to the base hospital. And many, many lives were saved," Coover said.

 

"This was very powerful. That's something I'm very proud of--the number of lives that were saved," he said.

 

Ironically, the Food & Drug Administration hadn't given approval for the medical use of the compound at that point. But the military used the substance, anyway (reference 1).

 

Although cyanoacrylate glues were useful on the battlefield, the FDA was reluctant to approve them for civilian use. In part, this was due to a tendency of the early compounds (made from "methyl-2-cyanoacrylate") to irritate the skin as the glue reacted with water and cured in the skin, releasing cyanoacetate and formaldehyde. A compound called "butyl-2-cyanoacrylate" was developed to reduce toxicity, but suffered from brittleness and cracking a few days after application. Finally an improved cyanoacrylate glue was developed for medical applications called "2-octyl-cyanoacrylate." This compound causes less skin irritation and has improved flexibility and strength--at least three times the strength of the butyl-based compound (reference 2). As a result, in 1998 the FDA approved 2-octyl cyanoacrylate for use in closing wounds and surgical incisions, and in 2001 approved it for use as a "barrier against common bacterial microbes including certain staphylococci, pseudomonads, and Escherichia coli" (reference 2). This latest incarnation was marketed under the name Traumaseal as well as the more popular Dermabond.

 

Cyanoacrylate glues also find use in medicine for orthopedic surgery, dental and oral medicine (marketed as Soothe-n-Seal), veterinary medicine (Nexaband), and for home use as Band Aid brand Liquid Bandage. It even has been explored as a potential treatment for emphysema, where it can be used to seal off diseased lung passages without the need for invasive surgery.

 

Is it safe to use ordinary household cyanoacrylate glue as a medical glue? According to Reference 7, most cyanoacrylate glues not designed specifically for medical use are formulated from methyl-2-cyanoacrylate, since it produces the strongest bond. Not only can such glues irritate the skin, during polymerization they can generate significant heat, to the point of causing skin burns. I gather this is a problem only if a large area of skin is affected. But to err on the side of safety, you should tell your brother-in-law he should only use medically-approved glue, not the ordinary kind. And always be careful using it--I know families are supposed to stick together, but there are limits.

 

References

 

Hayes, Sharon Caskey. "Discovery of Super Glue helped land Coover in National Inventors Hall of Fame," Kingsport Times-News, July 11, 2004.

Schwade, Nathan D. "Wound Adhesives, 2-Octyl Cyanoacrylate", eMedicine article, Apr. 10, 2002

Vinters HV, Galil KA, Lundie MJ, Kaufmann JC: The histotoxicity of cyanoacrylates. A selective review. Neuroradiology 1985; 27(4): 279-91

Fernandez, Tania (Dr) and Bliskovsky, Val (Dr). "Cyanoacrylate Technology: Stay Glued," Pharmbiz.com, Jan. 2, 2003

Perry LC: An evaluation of acute incisional strength with Traumaseal surgical tissue adhesive wound closure. Dimensional Analysis Systems Inc.

Jueneman, F, "Stick it to um," Industrial Research & Development, Aug. 1981, p. 19.

Quinn, J., & Kissack, J., "Tissue Adhesives for Laceration Repair During Sporting Events," Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, Vol. 4 No. 4, 1994, p. 245