Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Quick first aid for a cut

For cuts, a plastic squirt bottle of saline solution (contact lens saline also works) squirted on the wound will clean it. You can use wound glue if you can get the wound edges close together. But that stuff burns so be prepared to blow on the wound for a few seconds. If you use an antibiotic ointment, apply it with a q-tip so you don't touch the end of the tube with your fingers and contaminate it. Or apply the ointment to a bandaid pad and then the bandaid to the wound.