i cut a big chunk out of the tip of my finger

[Javamama]

Is there any difference between store bought, and local? I know my hubby will buy honey from the store. If I buy honey, I get it local.

Yes- get local, raw honey. Minimal filtering and NO heat treatment/pasteurizing.

 

[TanksHill]

Ok beside all that. ARE YOU STILL BLEEDING???

 

[Mackay]

This will be helpful for future cases of wound care.

I have healed a number of such type of wounds with merely steri strips covered with a bandaide or gauze dressing.. Most often I don't even use antibiotics but a little topical, and just a little is Ok. I usually don't put it on unless it starts to get sore or slightly red. With this construction project this year there have been a few of these. Keep those steri strips on and the wound dry, cause water loosens the strips. Keeping the wound closed is essential as the internal starts to mend you don't want it to separate as each time that happens the success rate will go down and be more difficult to heal.

You can use honey if you want but I like the convienence of a topical bacitracin. No fuss no muss.

This product is essential to any home emergency kit and can save you from have sutures if it is not too deep

For a good view of them go here:

http://www.steristrips.com/

Purchase here:
http://www.amazon.com/3M-Steri-Strip-Adhesive-Reinforced-Envelope/dp/B002MB5RVW

and a box of these is essential to go with them as they will keep those steri strips on for a long time. Do not discount their value.
http://www.americandiabeteswholesal...?zmam=69792428&zmas=1&zmac=2&zmap=W4056511452

 

[Beekissed]

Mackay....she doesn't have a skin flap...just a dished out chunk missing from her finger. Nothing to steri strip closed at this point.

 

[i_am2bz]

This will be helpful for future cases of wound care.

This product is essential to any home emergency kit and can save you from have sutures if it is not too deep

For a good view of them go here:

http://www.steristrips.com/

Purchase here:
http://www.amazon.com/3M-Steri-Strip-Adhesive-Reinforced-Envelope/dp/B002MB5RVW

and a box of these is essential to go with them as they will keep those steri strips on for a long time. Do not discount their value.
http://www.americandiabeteswholesal...?zmam=69792428&zmas=1&zmac=2&zmap=W4056511452

Thanks, McKay. I have been unable to find anything like these in any local store, so appreciate having the link.

 

[Wildsky]

Is there any difference between store bought, and local? I know my hubby will buy honey from the store. If I buy honey, I get it local.

Yes- get local, raw honey. Minimal filtering and NO heat treatment/pasteurizing.

I used raw honey on my hubby's leg a few years ago - he had both legs broken when a metal I beam was dropped on his legs by accident at work The I beam scraped off a HUGE chunk, and they couldn't really DO anything about it, I used the honey to prevent infection and aid healing. He has a horrible scar, but never had an infection.


Speaking of the glue, I had my lady parts glued after birthing at home. It wasn't nice, and didn't hold very well . I would go for stitches there if ever that happened again.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I use superglue on small cuts (especially paper cuts) but in this case I wouldn't do it. Superglue is great for gluing skin back together, but when there's a large area of exposed tissue I don't think it would work very well.

Hope you're finger is ok!!!! My mom also sliced off the tip of her finger on one of those! :/

 

[savingdogs]

I'm with aggieterpkatie on this, glueing is for small cuts that need to be closed, not deep wounds. I'd be more inclined to use Bee's suggestion of honey or use a prepared antibiotic ointment like Mackay suggests and wrap the way Bee described. But if you are concerned about it at all in the upcoming days don't hesitate to see a doctor, wounds can get infected and be very serious. And of course the bleeding has to stop.....

My daughter caught her thumb in a door accidentely when she was about five. We rushed her to the ER, and they actually nipped back the bone a little so they would have extra skin to close over the top of her thumb. The nail bed was preserved so the nail grew back fairly normal. She hates how this looks now that she is grown, she has a permanently short thumb and wacky nail. If I had it to do over I would insist they NOT shorten their bone the way that they did, even though she was numb at that point. But they did do a great job of wrapping it correctly which can be more challenging than it might sound. I hope you have people helping you???? Hard to wrap your own hand.

 

[kristenm1975]

I was just reading about the many uses of yarrow on herbalist Ryan Drum's website. Apparently, its very useful in treating deep wounds. Who knew?? Here's the link to the article:

http://www.ryandrum.com/threeherbs.htm

I hope this is helpful and imformative!

 

[jjhuntsalot]

Well I am sorry about waiting so long to update. It was still bleeding at 10pm after my wife got home from her college class and her mother is a retired nurse and told her I neede to go to the hospital and get it cauterized. So at 10:15 we left the house and after waiting there for almost 2 hours the doctor said he thought he could stitch it up. I guess he did a pretty good job considering the peice was missing but when he dabbed the blood away to start stitching he did say Oh this is deep I don't know if i can stitch it or not.
Sorry I wasn't man enough to try the cheyenne pepper..

Her is a pic after it was done