Stitch Yourself Shut- Surgery at home.

Perform surgery at home. This I'ble will show you how to stitch up a wound. It will provide guidelines to follow, as to assist you in performing your own surgery at home.

This I'ble does not substitute for a qualified opinion, yet provides general purpose information to assist those not fortunate enough to afford general practitioner or hospital assistance.

So, are you injured? Do you have a cut that just won't heal? Don't have time to go the hospital?

Read on, as I will solve all your injury needs.

Step 1 What you will need

What you will need is as follows.


~ Sewing needle, the smaller the better.

~ Cotton appprox 30cm.

~ Dis-infectant.

~ Bandage.

~ Probes/cleaning tools.




Once you have these lets begin...

Comments

[recon506]

Is this BMX injury to be considered a good reason for stitches?

[snowluck2345]

i've had worse

[tinker234]

yes that is serious sew it up

[junits15]

how about a doctor?

[snowluck2345]

did that cut really need stitches? I have had cut that at least from the photos you have taken are much worse and deeper and I just clean them off, put a butterfly bandage on them and don't move the part of my hand they are on for a week.

[zchristian]

You should not use disinfectant, it is harmful to living tissue. Instead us antiseptic it only kills pathogens.

[jhoenig]

if in an area with no burnable alcohols, is it possible to boil or burn the object with some source of fire to sterilize it?

[tinker234]

santary counditins requried a clean blade and also strong fibers like spider webs

[jake2034]

Might I suggest "curving" the needle (or buying a curved one, for the sake of ease?), and having the thread be wet, to cut down on friction, and make this process easier, and faster.

The curved needle makes the zig-zagging almost nonexistent, since when the needle is all the way through it's near the other side. This causes less pushing/pulling and also allows you to get deeper into the skin much easier.

[HerpHandler]

Crazy glue works too and you dont have to worry about removing any stiches.

[Lftndbt]

"Worry" I can't say that it is, once you get use to it. Just stitch them in and cut them out when you are down. Simple... Thanks for your comment.

[anibioman]

i took some stitches our of my foot with some nail clippers easiest thing ever

[dumberthanU]

brother cut me a few days ago, pinky, tip. sliced down and trough the whole tip horizontal to the bone with a razor knife. .just barely missed my nail. if its a good cut i feel like the pain would make for a hard task. doc shot all around the base of my finger with lydacain you know the stuff the dentist uses. within a half an hour i coudn't feel anything. he also used saline to drain the cut of anything unwanted & used thin mono-filament (fishingline) 4 the stitches. It wouldnt be that bad an idea to have the needle pre threaded too, to save time.I really think some lydacain and a syringe would be worth its weight in gold for this. especially for a survival kit.

[anibioman]

actually dentists use Novocain but yeah same thing happened to me but i cut
MYSELF on my left pointer but thy lydacain hurts so much more then the actual stitches i got stitches on my head with no anesthetic it was a lot less painful then the lydacain injection and the lydacain didn't even make the area number it was ale=ready quite numb from nerve damage.

[codongolev]

what happens to the thread later?

[Lftndbt]

It needs to be removed once the sub-dermal layers of skin have fused back together... This may take up to 4 days and they should not be removed till it heals. Do not leave them in for longer than a week as the skin WILL try to grow over them.

[anibioman]

that happened to me with my doctor done up stitches it make it a lot more uncomfortable when getting them removed

[codongolev]

ha... I've actually had stitches since that post. I got them on my face! with no anesthesia! yay concussions! I AM TRULY THE MANLIEST MAN!

[lobo_pal]

This is true, I had to cut out some dirt about a year after it had gotten under my skin.

[nickpunxxx]

A waterproof twine/thread would be a better choice; Cotton will allow moisture and dirt inside the wound (think of the wick in a gaslight) possibly leading to infection. Sterile wire or fishing line should be alright.

[Aklash, The hunchback]

 Silk thread would be perfect, its what is actually sometimes used by surgeons

[protocolZA]

 once, when i was a kid,i was playing with a bull-terria and he ripped me open, i didnt have superglue so i used ducttape. I have a huge scar.

[lil jon168]

that didnt need stitches just some super glue and a bandaid

[futuca]

Be sure to let the glue dry first or the bandaid will be embedded in the wound.

[poser]

super glue?!?! 0.o y super glue?

[mothflavour2]

super glue is used on certain cuts all the time in a doctor's office. but at home, super glue is great for papercuts.

[Night Flame]

or for a nail that is ripped really deep. works good to seal it till nail grows long enough to cut off

[Future filmaker]

I do believe that super glue was developed for soldiers in WWII as a replacement for stitches.

[Doctor What]

I too have sliced a finger. It didn't hurt for some reason, but about a minute after, I felt sick. Like, I bent over in preparation for the heave. After a few minutes, I finally felt pain, but it wasn't as much as I had expected. I didn't sew it up (didn't think I needed to), but the wound didn't heal for like a week. Made it impossible to write.

[A.C.E.]

Well your fingers have some of the highest concentrations of nerve endings in your entire body, and if you slice it fast enough you may not feel it because of detached nerves.  idk about the feeling sick though, probably just your body letting you know there was something wrong in a different way because it hadnt established enough connection with the finger yet.

[8bit]

Yeah, I get that too. Wonder why one gets nauseous.

[Don,t try this at home]

It`s from the bloodloss makes you blood pressure drop and puts you in shock

[Lftndbt]

Isn't adrenaline wonderful? I once cut my finger tip off. Didn't feel a thing till I got myself to hospital. As soon as I relaxed and thought, "I'm here" man it hurt!! Until they gave me a nerve block. Arn't nerve blocks wonderful!! Yes, I needed to respond to some comments so I stitched it shut. I'm so dedicated. LoL

[stephenniall]

Ahh nerve Blocks and Morphine..

[Doctor What]

So you didn't cut it just for the ible. Maybe for version 2, you can cut your leg open!

[Lftndbt]

No, no that does not sound like fun at all. LoL

[jagman111]

You know this is good info . I am a mechanic and sometimes in life you just can't drop what you are doing and run to the doc to get fixed . i cut my thumb to the bone but had a job to finsh so i washed it out with clean water, used superglue to close it and a piece of clean t-shirt and duct tape to seal , then finshed job. 12 hrs later wife made me go see doc and said i just had kept clean bandage on it prob would have healed just fine, but got stitched anyway . healed just fine no probs.

[Iridium7]

did the glue hurt?

[jagman111]

no it could not hurt more I already had a cut to the bone .

[Iridium7]

yeeeesh........ sucks. how did you cut it?