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I usually use the oblong bandaids, because they're normal.
Last night while cutting a nectarine, I cut my thumb. I used the weird amoeba-shaped bandaid, because I needed it to grip better.
The one kind of bandaid I never could think of a use for is the round ones. But I just thought of a use for them! I haven't taken a shower yet (yuck) because I want to give my thumb a little more chance to heal before I get it wet... if I had one of those round bandaids, I could take a shower!
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The little round ones can be good for little bitty cuts, like if you get a shot or if you cut yourself shaving (unless you're like me and regularly slice the back of your ankle open).
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They're also good for cuts in spots where a regular bandaid won't stay because it's too big. Like on fingers, as you mentioned.
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About the only cuts I tend to get are on my fingers, and regular bandaids just aren't well suited to fingers. So I take the normal oblong ones and cut slits in the adhesive portion as needed to make them like the amoeba bandiads.
The little round ones, like pH said, are good for tiny cuts/stabs.
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I guess I've never felt the need to put a bandaid on a tiny cut -- maybe I heal faster than most.
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I only put on bandaids if it's actively bleeding, or to protect it from rubbing/irritation. Cuts on fingers are particularly prone to both, IME.
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My baby got little round band-aids put on her shots yesterday. My dad used to keep the huge square ones around for scraped knees, then when we got older, the knee-shaped ones. He also liked the knuckle-shaped ones. (Okay, they're not shaped like knees and knuckles, but for them.) The little bitty ones are good for paper cuts.
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I've never put on bandaids, whatever the size of the cut. I just hold some paper towels to it until it stops bleeding, disinfect it, and go on as normal.
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Well, I wasn't reading it that way, but you can bet I will be now! : :
I love those rubbery bandaids that effectivey form an artificial blister over the wound rather than allowing it to scab. They're completely waterproof until they start peeling up, so they're great for showers, and they tend to stick better an the conventional kind. I *think*, though, that my experiments on myself indicated that they didn't really speed up the healing process much, if at all.
Hm. I wonder if that thread is still around?
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Explain further. I quoted my mother because it seemed appropriate, but how is a scar related to the amount of air a cut recieves? For that matter, does letting cuts clot in the open air help them to heal faster, or is what my mother said merely old wives' tales?
To me, it makes a little sense that skin should be allowed to exist in a normal environment (sun, air etc.) in order to heal, but this could be my own complete lack of biology knowledge cloud my vision.
I rarely, rarely wear bandaids. As a child, I hated them and only wore them when my parents made a convincing argument. I only recieve a cut worthy of a bandaid once every couple of years, so its not that much of a issue. Unless the cut is bad, I'm doing something dirty, or very clean, or I'm likely to be bleeding everywhere, I probably wouldn't bother.
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I like knuckle bandages best, with the 4 ends they hold on really well.
Whenever I've got a cut, I usually wear bandaids for a couple days, then take them off before i go to sleep one night to let a scab form. Then I don't use any more bandaids, just let the scab deal with it the rest of the way.
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One annoying thing about bandaids = they're way expensive in the store. You can pay $3-5 for a box of 20 or so, whereas if you order from a supply catalog you can get a box of 500 for, what, $10 or so...
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