Yeah I'd try steri strips and a dressing if I got it clean and the cut /split looks neat. My view, it's worth a try to save a trip, but if you can't get it to stay closed, can't get it clean, or it gets hot and puffy or ooozy, then a&e.
Can you buy the surgical super glue? I thought it was prescription/professional use stuff. I was impressed when doc at a&e used it on my 3yo's chin after a face plant from her bike!
This was my last trip to Minor Injuries, it was cleaned, stitched and covered in less than an hour, great service from a very underused service.
Yikes! I'm glad I'm a coward and do my best to avoid such things.
Cheers for folks still helping, but all sorted last night 👍
2 stitches at minor injuries. Neato
It's one of them when I was actually saying to myself earlier on that I wasn't in the frame of mind for hitting jumps today. I then hit a jump and predictably crashed.
What a knobber...
🙄
Nearest stitch looks a bit loose, tails on the thread too long and get your legs shaved.
No tyres and logos to line up but it looks like your socks are too tight as well.
Yeah but surgical superglue. 151 out the pound shop is not the type you use, not unless you want to poison your leg 😆
I’ve been using common or garden superglue for years, for cuts of all sorts of sizes. The worst one was down the side of my thumbnail with a very sharp Opinel, the cut was the full depth of the nail, and nearly a centimetre across where the knife stopped, almost a parabola shape. I was on holiday camping, had no proper first aid kit, so I went to the nearby tap and ran lots of cold water over it, then using what I had to hand, a tube of superglue and some loo roll, dried it squirted glue on it then wrapped some tissue around my thumb, some more glue, then some more tissue, let it dry, then added some more.
I left it alone for two or three weeks, I couldn’t bring myself to try taking the ‘bandage’ off, then it fell off by itself. There was no sign of a cut that I could see, no visible scar.
I do carry more sophisticated first aid kits around now, though. Just in case. But I always have superglue in them.
[iso I went to the nearby tap and ran lots of cold water over it,[/i]
The most important step 1 - Clean all the crap out of it. Really flood the wound, not some light rinse or a few squirts from the water bottle.
After that, the better Savlon or similar the better, the better clean glue the better but most of that id secondary to cleaning the wound quickly after causing it.
Just let the dog lick it....
Did me no harm...
#prayforoldmanmtb2 dog
Just let the dog lick it….
Did me no harm…
The dog has tried to lick it.
Weirdly, when he came in the first time he literally went straight to my yet to be medically attended wound and started sniffing it and gently licking at it like he knew I wasn't right.
I swear man, dogs just know shit.
Also weirdly though, the dog doesn't seem to know not to jump onto my possibly potentially broken ribs and almost immovable arms.
Aggggghhhh! 😳
Frikkin dog! 😖
Never let a cat lick it...
I swear man, dogs just know shit.
Smells 0- blood has a smell and also I assume an open would will release odours that a dog can detect- all that " they just know your mood" is about the detecting your pheromones IMO
[i]The dog has tried to lick it.[/i]
Before or after he sat there licking his balls?
The most important step 1 – Clean all the crap out of it. Really flood the wound, not some light rinse or a few squirts from the water bottle.
After that, the better Savlon or similar the better, the better clean glue the better but most of that id secondary to cleaning the wound quickly after causing it.
Never seen a better post...
I remember having a similar wound to my elbow once whilst out riding at Mabie with a friend. He advised going back to his house to clean it up.
I was a little taken aback when he and his wife proceeded to take out all the necessary swabs and needles to stitch it back up.
Dont worry, they were both seriously over qualified to be doing it, but it still felt weird to be doing it. I popped into the docs on the monday to get some antibiotics just in case.
A&E is pretty quiet at the moment...
Was this a joke?
I was a little taken aback when he and his wife proceeded to take out all the necessary swabs and needles to stitch it back up.
Without anesthetic ?.
I'd 4 or 5 put in in A&E in Harrogate after getting rip roaring drunk at a trade show and wandering back to the hotel managed to impale one arm on the local police office fence(dont ask me how). Went through a nerve and got stitches put in. Hospital said because i was drinking they couldnt use the anesthetic(I suspect is was punishment for sheer stupidity) Hurt like a ba$%^&d.
Funnily enough, the next night I found myself chatting to the local St Johns ambulance guy in the chip shop who I'd previously had a chat with at the trade show and he was telling me some plonker managed to impale himself on a fence outside the police station, left a fair bit of claret on the pavement.
Oh that was me 😆
Is it just me or has Kayak23 been fitted with BOA laces?
