Skin glue from A&E that should have dissolved by now!

[jasperc163]

DD had a small cut on her head a week and a half ago that required skin glue (they crisscrossed her hair across the cut to close the wound). Said not to wash hair for a week etc, then to wet hair to get glue to dissolve. Since then with every hair wash the glue is still rock hard and DD screams if we try to rub at it at all (wound looks fine). It looks awful as obviouly the hair is being pulled across it. Anyone found this and does it eventually come out?!

thanks

Yes!

My daughter had a cut on her head glued together, the nurse at the time said 10 days, it was about 7 weeks before it fell off and that was with some help from acetone after a nurse advised it!

thanks Idiot55 - looks like i will be going down that route too once it has fully healed. No sign of it shifting at all (2 weeks now) but obviously got to wait for cut to be fully healed! Tried to call my surgery for some advice but of course noone has called back yet....

The glue itself doesnt have any kind of removal agent. Acetone is not recognised as working with superglue (which it is). When people got the fingers stuck together with superglue it was basically waiting for the skin cells to shed for the glue to come off. Not what you want to hear!

Is the glue stuck to the hair itself or still welded to the scalp? If its the hair you may just need to cut the hair and have an odd hairdo for a while. Otherwise its just a waiting game.

Acetone worked here! Within seconds, maybe it was ready to though and coincidence

Acetone does have some effect on super glue.

I have very easily cracked nails and sometimes resort to super glue on cracks so low they would hurt to cut out.

Hi both, glue is stuck too both hair and scalp as hair used to knit cut together by criscrossing it, so can't cut it. Will try acetone but obviously need it to heal more first I think! Can't think why they say it dissolves in water...

Long story short. They used washing up liquid to rescue my friends knob when he doused it with several tubes of super glue.

Hot soapy water and gentle abrasion

Oh no come on herrana, you can't short story that one!

I want to know the gluey knob story as well. Although it sounds a bit tragic.

Apparently acetone can be used with care. I checked the superglue website. We never used it in A&E I suppose because most superglue scabs just came off naturally. For delicate skin it's just soap and water as a lubricant and gently abrade the skin cells off!

It was a nightmare gluing wriggly childrens eyebrows as its so runny it can end up in the eye!