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

[Misac-kun]

I was thinking about this when you come up with this ible'.

[cmiller60]

Super glue will work best if you take a thread or fishing line or hair for that matter and drag it through the super glue and place it across the wound. No need to squirt that crap directly at or in the wound, thats just a day, besides cutting yourself.

[zedonksmom]

I ran into site after breaking up a donkey versus dogs fight. I was seeing blood and thinking I might need to sew him up myself rather than load him up for a ride to the vet. I read the instructions and thought to myself, self, you been on both ends of a needle enough times to do this. I went out to examine the wound a little more carefully and considering the poor guy came within a hair of being gelded, I decided this particular incident is beyond my pay grade.

Ironically, as I sit here, however, I have just walked out a hospital with a my thoat slit from ear to ear to faciliatate the removal of a monstrous thyroid gland. No stitiches to take out; all superglued, I guess.

Just wish I could get my hands on some Novocaine to inject before I take needle to any future animal husbandry needs. The dogs I can probably hold still; not sure about the equines, though. And strategically placed hooves can really hurt.

[Bella baby2468]

How to I attach the thread to the needle?? Do I double it and tie the ends like normal?

[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?

[wingman358]

Cyanoacrylate (superglue/crazyglue etc) has been found to be better than stitches in terms of incidence of infection, time consumption, and cosmetic result.

Source: http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=1986;volume=32;issue=2;spage=97;epage=100;aulast=Dalvi

[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!