Liquid Bandage For Lacerations

Up and Up is Target's house brand and it's a full one ounce.

Aren't the cuts you get on your fingertips the worst? Even a tiny paper cut is painful because you use your hands and fingers to touch everything getting necessary tasks done. Cutting up and seasoning your food in cooking reminds you of your wound. Peeling an orange or squeezing a lemon hurts. A finger cut takes all the joy out of eating salty potato chips. And, using alcohol-based hand sanitizer... ouch!

So for our medicine cabinet, I purchase the solution liquid bandage to brush on small wounds, especially for what we'll call busy high-traffic body parts like fingertips.

The active ingredients in liquid bandage are benzethonium, chloride, a first aid antiseptic and dyclonine hydrochloride, a topical analgesic. It causes a slight burning when brushed on the cut, but it seals the wound and there is less of a chance for infection since the laceration is sealed shut.

Liquid bandage is a waterproof adhesive so your injured fingers are not as sensitive when you wash your hands or your raw vegetables for dinner.

The seal is reported to last for 5 to 10 days even with handwashing and showering, but I haven't found this to be true on fingers. I have to reapply the liquid adhesive until the gash heals. I do think sealing the injury helps it to heal.

According to MedlinePlus, using liquid bandage may also reduce the size of scars. It is safe to apply it on small cuts to stop bleeding too. Of course, large cuts need prompt medical attention and perhaps stitches.

A worthy and inexpensive product to have in a medicine cabinet.

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