Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Treatment and care of toe laceration?
So I have a laceration on my toe. It's basically a slice about 1/4" long by 1/8" deep at about a 45 degee angle to the surface of the bottom of my toe right where the joint is. When it first was cut it bled alot... more blood than I've ever seen from a cut of that size. it stopped bleeeding after about 3min elevated and I disinfected with isopropyl alcohol. It appears to be a pretty clean slice. Now I put neosporin on it and a bandaid... well 3 bandaids actually. Trying to keep it dry. My problem is it already reopened once when I was walking and started bleeding again with alot of blood, it stopped with pressure though and seems fine now doesn't hurt or sting and I can still move it fine. I'm just not sure if there's any extra care I should do or how I can keep it from opening again. I can't see the point in going to an ER or similar because I doubt they would do anything different than I already have and I don't have insurance. I was thinking maybe liquid bandage? Any advice?
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