Mog

Being a plumber I suffer with split and cracked skin during the winter months and have noticed how A&E on a regular basis superglue minor cuts rather than stitching, I have tried normal superglue on my fingers and it allows the cut to heal rather than keep splitting open with work BUT am I using the wrong glue and in danger of my fingers falling off..................

StickyMicky

this isnt a girly question but do you moisturise your hands?

get sum good quality stuff and keep them soft, i do mine about 2 times per day to stop mine cracking (chemicals dry mine out)

Mog

Not a girly answer but yes I do, but the drop in temperature and cold water are a killer.

Mog

custard puddle

yeah moisturising works well (if continued regularly), and it ain't girly

David Lock

Don't the £50 notes tend to stick to your fingers??




please note smilie!!

custard puddle

wear gloves when you're out and about? protect your hands from the cold weather if pos

Mog

I get my man servant to collect the notes in a brown envelope.....

Clarebabes

I moisturise all the time and my hands are still dry and cracked. Wearing gloves while in water has got to help - I do too much washing up!

custard puddle

lol

moses

mate use honey and also if u press it for a while it sticks together

CrisPDuk

Linseed oil works a treat for keeping your skin from cracking up.

I've been using the Loctite super glue for years now, ever since a work colleague came back from Holland saying that's what they do in A & E over there, so far I've suffered no noticeable ill effects.

FLAT ERIC

iTrader: (1)

You would be better off preventing the water gettting to the skin.

If you cannot do your work wearinge thin latex examination type disposable gloves then use a barrier cream.Then moisturise after.

Old farmers trick is to use the cream they put on cows udders.

You never see a dried up cracked cows udder now do you?

custard puddle

lol

p1doc

try aqueous cream three times a day-should soften the skin and use as soap etc and should improve the cracking-use as much as needed dont just use a small amount
superglue was invented in korea/vietnam for big wounds but glue nowadays would form an insoluble block that prevents healing and would irritate your skin likely,a+e use special glue that tends to stick the top surface together so skin underneath heals up then glue falls offor for kids who will not stop scraeming long enough for stitches!
martin

Butty

iTrader: (2)

Germoline do something called "new skin". Its a liquid that I use on nicks and cuts that get wet.
It smells exactly like nail varnish though - could it be the same stuff?
Anyway, it promises to form a barrier to allow the cut to heal but is water proof.

Nick

blueone

Superglue was invented for use by Medics in either the Korean or Vietnam war. They tended to not have much time to spend on each patient when it was busy, so needed a fast method of stitching everyone back together!

moses

also aloe vera gel is good too

scoobypreza

I use Norweigan formula concentrated hand cream, that works well.
You can get it in tesco.

cath

GC8

'Superglue' was originally developed for the US military; its designed to bond large flesh wounds together until casualties can be medivac'ed to a field hospital. It all makes sense now doesnt it? Its non-toxic despite being a '...cyanate' and its naturally passed out of your body.

Simon

tmo

use "Decubal clinic", top stuff

OllyK

Interesting that many people extrapolate the toxicity of elements through in to the compunds that contain them.

Sodium - soft metal, highly exothermic reaction with water producing NaOH and Hydrogen gas.
Chlorine - reactive, posinous green gas
Sodium Chloride - white crystals you put on your chips.

kend

The only difference between medical superglue and normal, is that the medical stuff usually has a dye in it, and comes in small sterile packs.
Oh, and costs 10 times as much.

Loctite is fine, you should push edges of cut together and put glue over the top, rather than pouring glue into the cut.

Vipa

I was always lead to believe that superglue was developed by the aerospace industry as a 'nut locking agent' used on aeroplanes (hence the reason the original product was called "LocTite."

BAE were using this for the above application when I had contacs there in the 80s

Not disputing it is used in medicine though... I know it is.

Paul

ajm

Its exactly the same stuff, cyanoacrylate

GC8

Im sure that the product that we have is as I described. Real thread lock is totally different; in fact 'superglue' wont lock a thread; it doesnt set but it will bond your fingers in under a second; exactly what it was intended for.

Simon

Vipa

Metal to metal it will lock a thread very strongly...Takes about 30 seconds to 'go off'. where as thread lock puts up more resistance to the nut/bolt whatever coming loose, superglue requires de-activator to get it to let go.

I use superglue for precicely this when fixing parts of model racing cars that will be subject to excessive vibration, universal joints, diff output gears/shafts etc....

Paul

midget1500

works well on skin as it needs water to set it off