Thread: First Aid

Originally Posted by chee16

i have said it before and nobody listened (which is fine ) but a silver solution (NOT SILVER NITRATE) is the only thing i will use as it works great. all it is is de-ionized silver in reverse osmosis water. it has been known for thousands of years that silver is a natural antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral. all it does is take away any chance of infection and lets your body heal itself.

and there is absolutely NO WAY it will turn you blue. people who have turned blue were either using silver nitrate or making it themselves which in turn caused the mixture to be part silver nitrate.

PS i just reread my post and i hope it isn't taken as an angry post. i am just trying to get my point across, and am not in any way writing this in anger.

So you're not blue in the face?



Ewwwww.... that was baaaaaad.

Originally Posted by FloorPizza

So you're not blue in the face?



Ewwwww.... that was baaaaaad.

ha! that was bad! but i'm still laughing so whats that say about me?

I agree with Lynn on this one - for smaller cuts use the styptic, but I find that on medium and larger cuts using the styptic results in a a noticeable mark after the wound heals. I take a wad of toilet paper and soak up all excess blood, the smear a big glob of triple antibiotic ointment into the cut. Then I fold over a piece of toilet paper to an appropriate size bandage, and tape that to my face using nexxcare paper tape. Wake up in the morning - throw away the bandage, cut heals w/ no small scar.

All of the nicks and cuts I've gotten with my str8s (about a month now) have been so fine that cold water and AS sealed them up just fine. I got my first real slice this week and it, too, sealed nicely with just cold water and AS. However, with my old twin blade disposables, I would occasionally get a bad gash from using too much pressure on an old blade. These were nasty because instead of just slicing the skin, it took off a small circle (1-2 mm) of skin. It bled quite a bit and styptic pencil stopped the bleeding, but created a large scab that was easily knocked off, so the bleeding continued. I used a Bandaid dot to stop the bleeding. These are small, circular bandaids about the size of a dime, and looked better than walking around with a wad of tp on my chin.

Originally Posted by chee16

i have said it before and nobody listened (which is fine ) but a silver solution (NOT SILVER NITRATE) is the only thing i will use as it works great. all it is is de-ionized silver in reverse osmosis water. it has been known for thousands of years that silver is a natural antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral. all it does is take away any chance of infection and lets your body heal itself.

Would this be the colloidal silver, that's commonly sold at gun shows and other places like that as a cure-all? I'm really not being sarcastic, I just want to know.

And it's OK to be angry and grumpy. I do it aaaalllll the time.
(And the crowd, in unison, chants, "Yes, she DOES!!)

Do not try to use any sort of super glue to fix an open wound since one of the main components in all super glues are a cyanide compound, which is VERY toxic. There's a reason it went from liquid stitches to fixing broken china, it was dangerous!
Still, it's really great for fixing chipped nails instead of having banged up finger for a month or two...

Originally Posted by Stuggi

Do not try to use any sort of super glue to fix an open wound since one of the main components in all super glues are a cyanide compound, which is VERY toxic. There's a reason it went from liquid stitches to fixing broken china, it was dangerous!
Still, it's really great for fixing chipped nails instead of having banged up finger for a month or two...

Eeek. Your post freaked me out, cause I use liquid bandages containing CA alot. So I did a bit of research. The following is from the controversial source of Wikipedia:

"Toxicity:
The fumes from CA are a vaporized form of the cyanoacrylate monomer that irritate sensitive membranes in the eyes, nose and throat. They immediately are polymerized by the moisture in the membranes and become inert. About 5% of the population can become sensitized to CA fumes after repeated exposure, resulting in flu-like symptoms.[4] It may also act as a skin irritant and may cause an allergic skin reaction. The ACGIH assign a Threshold Limit Value exposure limit of 200 parts per billion. On rare occasions inhalation may trigger asthma. There can be no singular measurement of toxicity for all cyanoacrylate adhesives as there is a wide variety of adhesives that contain various cyanoacrylate formulations.
However, the United States National Toxicology Program and the United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive have concluded that the use of ethyl cyanoacrylate is safe and that additional study is unnecessary.[5] 2-octyl cyanoacrylate degrades much more slowly due to its longer organic backbone which slows the degradation of the adhesive enough to remain below the threshold of tissue toxicity. Due to the toxicity issues of ethyl cyanoacrylate, the use of 2-octyl-cyanoacrylate for sutures is preferred."


Most liquid bandages on the market today do, in fact, use the 2-octyl-cyanoacrylate formulation to avoid that obnoxious death by poison potential side effect.


Moral: *Don't* use CA glues for closing wounds, unless it is one specifically marketed and formulated to do just that. No more Krazy GLuing your fingers back on after sawing one off!