quick! how do i know i need stitches

[francagoestohollywood]

for a bad cut on my finger?

all the times i needed stitches, the cut just would NOT stop bleeding, despite pressure, putting it up, etc.

ask lulumama!!

(sorry, I don't know...)

What did you cut it with?

Is it a deep cut? How long has it been bleeding for? Maybe better safe than sorry.

It is sometimes worse to have stitches in your fingers than to just tape it up. Unless you can see tendons etc.

can you get to a chemist ? You can get steri strips (I think they are called) that you put at right angles to the cut to hold it together - and then cover with a dressing. That is pretty much what they do at A&E - sometimes they use some glue as well.

Make sure the wound is really really clean.

Super glue back together by pressing the two bits of skin together - ie don't put glue in the wound but along the skin.

steri strips sound good. don't know if there's any cheminst open around. I cut it with glass, nothing mjor, but dh seems woried, which is out of character

The nurse in A & E on Sunday told us we could have glued DS back together ourselves

thanks TMP!!

i cut my finger very , very deeply..to the point, i actually went a bit faint and sickly....no time to go to a&E, so put loads of plasters on it, and got DH to pick up some steri strips on the way home, it healed very quickly....blardy painful though! it was so deep it didn;t gush, it sort of oozed all day....

I did this recently with a knife and had stitches (7 - and I felt very brave!) They gave me paracetamol for the pain which I didn't dare take - if you can clean it with some antiseptic stuff before steri strips I think this will help?

, you are all very brave... I went to the walk in centre and they dressed it, told me to go back in two days to have the dressing done again.

I felt fainty and sickly too lulumama, but yours sounds worse than mine...

not brave - went very white afterwards (!?) and rewarded myself with a BigMac meal....... (it was late, my finger hurt.....!)

Why wouldn't you take paracetamol for pain? It's safe even during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

poor you franca

i cut the base of my thumb, where it joins the palm, with the edge of a tin [faint}

argh lulumama! I cut my middle finger. I broke the handle of a glass jug, was throwing away the remaining "body" of said jug while explaining ds what had happened when it sort of exploded in my hand and cut the finger... btw I was really impressed by the walk in centre, very efficient.
rach, 7 stitches, quite impressive: I'd have had a whopper

ooh how's it now franca? i hate cuts on the hands they ache for days

it's throbbing (is it the right word?). I once cut my index finger, and it felt numb for months. how are you sea?

yes throbbing ouch. i'm always getting paper cuts.

i'm ok but have had a four day headache since we're in health

! 4 days of headache, that's awful sea

ciao cali. it's a pain. I can't get it wet, and it was quite tricky to wash myself this mornng. Have to wash my hair tonight... dh suggested to wrap it in a plastic bag .