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Title: I'd like to recommend a great first aid product.
Source: scivolutions.com
URL Source: http://scivolutions.com/Merchant2/m ... _Code=A30S5C&Category_Code=FST
Published: Dec 7, 2007
Author: me
Post Date: 2007-12-07 22:10:42 by Critter
Keywords: None
Views: 3249
Comments: 69

I took a wicked gash in the leg today, above the left knee when an angle grinder slipped from my hand and hit me on the leg. In a split second it cut through my jeans and made a gash about 2 inches long and a half inch deep.

Naturally, I'm too tough for hospitals and stitches, so after I covered it with paper towel and electrical tape (lol) I went to the pharmacy for some butterflies. That's where I found these neat new things.

They are "Doctor's Choice" Skin Closures. They are these cool little strips about 3 inches long. The strips come 5 to a "kit", with 5 kits to the box for $8.99.

You expose the adhesive at one end of the 5 strip kit, and press it down on one side of the cut, them expose the adhesive in the middle, and draw the wound closed, press it down again, and then finally, expose the last end of the strips and press them down. The whole thing gets covered with this special pad.

I did mine at 5:30, then drove a standard transmission truck for an hour and half to get home, and the strips are still firmly in place under the pad, and the wound appears to be tightly closed.

They are amazing really. I think every first aid kit should two or three boxes of these things.

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#2. To: Critter (#0)

Great info! Thanks!!! I've just always used super glue, but it comes undone after a couple of days...

innieway  posted on  2007-12-07   22:21:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: innieway (#2)

Can you super glue a long wide gash? I thought about that. lol

We need a tutorial.

Critter  posted on  2007-12-07   22:21:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Critter (#4)

Can you super glue a long wide gash? I thought about that. lol

Yep. Done it plenty of times... The trick is to get the bleeding completely stopped first.

Super glue was developed by the military to close wounds...

innieway  posted on  2007-12-07   22:25:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: innieway (#7)

I'll have to try that next time. Thanks!

We should have a SHTF first aid ping list.

Critter  posted on  2007-12-07   22:28:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Critter (#9)

We should have a SHTF first aid ping list.

Good idea!

Diana  posted on  2007-12-07   22:52:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Diana, lodwick (#24)

We should have a SHTF first aid ping list.

I like it. When it happens the prepared may live.

To begin with food and water. I would like to see if the Berkey water systems are really the way to go.(Lodwick this is to you cause I think you have one)

Myself, I have I guess enough food to keep the family going for six weeks,( my pantry is pretty well stocked) water I can filter and treat from the stream not far away, guns and ammo got plenty of, tho need to get out and do some shooting to keep in shape.

The batteries and night lites are a source if interest, I bot a well recomended genarator last year and run it softly to break in in, changed the oil and burned all the gas out of it.

It's a 4000 watt Champion that I stole for $289 (yes that's right)and I may never need it. But the day I do it its worth an hundred thousand (maybe)

I like LED flashlights and have a lot of NiHd batteries, they last longer and are better in alot of ways.

Yes I like the idea of a SHTF ping list. I can see there is a lot to share.

Radio communications might be interesting.

When the killer blizzard hit Colorado Springs in (87?) the radio was essential

Just bot a GPS Garmin basic unit. A few months ago wife and I were in the "back of Beyond" reef system of the San Rafael Utah exploring slot canyons.

Well after eight hours of exploring I was interested in getting back to our camp for some food and cold beverages, but we got "misplaced", not quite lost, and at at that point I thought to my self, I would gladly pay $150 for a GPS to shed a little light on which ridge to trudge over to get the the food and beer.

So got one.

Anyway a good idea I think on the SHTF notion. I still have hardly figured out how to use the GPS, but I walk at about 3.7 miles/hour, kinda fast I think. And I know exactly what the elevation is of our house (6239 feet)

tom007  posted on  2007-12-07   23:23:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: tom007, innieway, lodwick, critter (#34)

I like it. When it happens the prepared may live.

I probably have about a years worth of food, I have cases of beans and about 100 pounds of rice, and of course cases of canned fish.

I'm stockpiling batteries, and have a couple of windup flashlights. I also have a good shortwave radio, that will be a good thing to have too when SHTF.

I need to get a good first aid kit though.

Diana  posted on  2007-12-07   23:47:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Diana (#42)

Fred says Duct Tape is all ya need ):

Heck He may be right.

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