| Subject: | Re: RE: [RESOGUIT-L] fixing little slits in your thumb | | Date: | , December 7, 2006 19:41:36 (+0100) | | From: | don.hergert <don.hergert @.......net>
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| In reply to: | Message 5400 (written by Lynn Oliver) |
I've had cuts to my banjo fretting fingers in key places that just had to be
corrected so I could play gigs without hurting or bleeding all over the
fingerboard. Picking fingers are usually ok, because I wear picks. But if I
get a cut on my left hand fingers, particularly my index finger, where I do all
my barre chords, or even on my other fingers or thumb, I can be in big trouble.
So, I've used cyanoacrylate frequently. Here are some of my observations:
1) Most of the time if you can stop the movement of (aka immobilize) the cut
surfaces (with their cut nerve endings) against each other, you can stop the
pain to a large extent without having to make the area numb. Cyanoacrylate
does
that.
2) Most of the time you can also stop the bleeding with cyanoacrylate.
3) You can also make a nice faux callous or scab over cut skin by first putting
down a piece or two of kleenex, then a drop of cyanoacrylate. The
cyanoacrylate will harden over your skin, inside the fibres of the kleenex,
then you can file the whole surface to the shape of your finger. It'll look
wierd, but it does work.
4) As good as these are, cyanoacrylate does have a couple of problems. First,
it breaks and cracks eventually, and when it does so it feels like sharp little
pieces of plastic or glass in your open sore. Also, it does seal the cuts, and
in doing so can seal dirt and bacteria inside the cut, resulting in infections.
As a habit, if I have a cut and use cyanoacrylate on it, I use it within an
hour before my gig, and I take it off after the gig is over. That re-irritates
the cut, but it does allow it to heal naturally later on.
I carry a sealed bottle of cyanoacrylate in my banjo case for this purpose.
Btw, my hands and fingers also get cracked during the winter months. I use Bag
Balm for that.
Best,
-- Don
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> get out your tiny little tube of Super Glue and put a drop on the
> slit and
> squeeze the cut together, BEING CAREFUL _not_ to get your other fingers
> Super Glued to each other.
There are two basic formulations for super glues: ethyl cyanoacrylate and
methyl methacrylate. Cyanoacrylate is suitable for use on skin as it
dissolves over several days and allows healing to complete. Avoid using
methacrylate.
Lynn
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