Crazy glue in the first aid kit

[Jade]

I keep Crazy Glue in the first aid kit I take camping with us.

It's saved a few trips back into town for stitches, over the years, and it's easy to use for cuts and such that need to be sewn up again.

It's important that the bleeding have stopped, and the edges be pressed into each other and appear as nothing more than a "line" on the skin.

[ChadTower]

Dermabond works really well for that, too, and adds antibiotics. Don't know how well it would work as a general adhesive, though, speaking in pack multiuse terms.

[Frederico]

Yes - Dermabond works for me and it is impregnated with antibiotics - I always have some in my basic medical kit. Not sure about Crazy Glue, but if the wound is properly cleaned and disinfected why not ?

[ChadTower]

Dermabond and has the same main ingredient as Krazy Glue. Sprays based on the stuff saved a lot of soldiers from bleeding to death in Vietnam. They are similar enough that if Dermabond can act as a general adhesive, too, it's a total win in your pack for many reasons.

[FireBuilder]

We've always used the crazy glue idea, but have often wondered whether we were poisoning ourselves. Good to know about Dermabond. Is that available at regular stores, or do you have to special order it?

[woodsman]

If you go by the principle of you are poisoning yourself or not, take into consideration that most drugs in high doses are poison . I myself used salt and duct tape a few times when nothing else was available.

[le Metis]

For myself, I prefer spider webs with the wound packed with a paste of Betadine and table sugar......

[Refrigerator]

actually I have seen this aproach to blister problems often in the field.

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[mccallum]

BE careful with crazy glue; while it is the precurser to dermabond and while the orginal intention for crazy glue was wound closer post surgery; people have had allergic reaction to crazy glue (and maybe demabond).

[BCBabe]

In my sailing days, that was a mandatory inclusion in the first aid kit.

I know that if the cyano-acrylic acid (crazy glue) gets into the blood stream, you have a problem... our family doctor was very specific, he said that the wound could not be open when the glue was applied, or complications could arise.

We already knew we weren't allergic to the stuff.

That, and for really long trips, morphine and xylocaine. And yes, both are available for the outdoorsman in forms easy to use.

The advent of modern technology means those things aren't AS necessary as perhaps they once were.