3 Great Ways to Heal Your Cuts Without Doctors

We've all cut ourselves. We've all cut ourselves worse then we'd like to admit, doing something that we knew we weren't suppose to do. Even if your cut was an accident, and you are seriously flabbergasted as to how it happened; you still need to get it put back together. Again, in these hard economic times going to the hospital is not always the most economic solution. In addition to that, most cuts don't need to be taken care of at the hospital. In fact, most doctors will tell you that cuts that most people believe need a stitch or two, doesn't need any of that. Here are three ways to heal your cuts without the doctors help.

First thing you have to do with all cuts is to stop it from bleeding. Take a clean rag, paper towel,or whatever you have. Put direct pressure on the wound. Many people, even myself, ask how much pressure they should put on the cut. The correct amount of pressure according to my doctor, Dr. Linda S. Morse MD, that you need to apply is the same amount of pressure you would apply to a thumb tack when you're putting it into a wall.

Now that you have the blood stopped, you can start to help yourself. The most beautiful part of the human body is that it can and will heal itself. The only thing you have to do is help it to get into the right ways and shapes to heal itself. With a cut, that means getting the two sides of the cut together.

One way you can do this is with super glue. Super glue gets rid of all of the bacteria and enzymes, and keeps the pieces together. It's like a one stop emergency room when it comes to cuts and skin openings. Squeeze the two sides of the cut together. Add a small bit of super glue down the entire length of the cut. Hold the cut together for about 10 minutes, and the cut is sewn up. Interesting enough, this is the same way that surgeons seal up patients in body cavity surgeries.

A second way you can heal and put yourself back together is with duct tape. Yes, I said duct tape. With duct tape you have to clean the wound thoroughly. the best idea would be to use alcohol, but if you don't have any that's ok. You can use water as well. Never underestimate the cleaning properties of water. Once you've cleaned the cut, hold it tight together. Place pieces of duct tape 2 inches from the left of the cut to 2 inches from the right of the cut. If you do as many strips as you can to do this, it will hold the cut together. Once the cut is help together, the healing will begin.

The third way you can do this, is the most primitive and the least effective. Once you get the cut to stop bleeding and it's washed off, you can begin the process. Get some white material, preferably cotton since it's the most pure of dyes and properties. Place the fabric in your cut. Once it's in the cut nice and secure, take any kind of tape and tape it on so that it doesn't move. If you don't have any tape, use twine, or string, or something to hold the cotton in there. If you have a tight long sleeve shirt, this will work as well to keep the piece of cotton in the cut.

In the end, the goal is to help your body heal itself in the most painless, sterile way.