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Originally Posted by pylon
Protip for the next time you slice yourself clean and deep:
1) Make sure you keep in your medicine cabinet a few caustic pencils (silver nitrate sticks) and crazy glue.
2) Wound yourself with a knife or razor blade. (This method does not work well with pressure, or punture wounds.)
3) Rinse under cold water for 5 minutes or so to slow blood flow, and numb.
4) Apply caustic pencil to to cut to cauterize.
5) Seal with a liberal dose of crazy glue.
6) Sit back and marvel in your time savings, and handi-work.
I have done three cuts this way that would easily have required stitches, and they heal beautifully. I learned the trick on the side of a highway in Montana when I took a rock to the head on my motorcycle, and I was not wearing a helmet. A truck driver stopped, and glued me together.. albeit skipping stage three, and using a little vodka to rinse the wound. When I got home I went to the walk in clinic to get it properly fixed, and the doctor says "That truck driver did a nice job. If you notice it start to get infected come back, otherwords, it should heal up fine."
Just sealed up a nasty one from a carpet knife this summer, and it barely left a scar after healing.
From what I understand, dermabond, is just medical grade crazy glue anyway.
You're welcome in advance.
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Cauterizing the wound is not a pleasant thing, when I worked in the kitchen, I ended up cutting off the whole tip of my pointing finger on the left hand.
My fellow cooks decided to cauterize it after service was done, having avoided this, I probably should have went to the clinic but instead I went back home and slept for a few hours before heading back down for my night shift. But 2 months before this happened, I sliced the same finger and ended up having 4 stitches. Haha.