doctor in the house?

edited April 2009 in Chit chat
I cut my lip over an hour ago and it wont stop bleeding. no scab or anything. I keep having to lap it up, so to speak. can't even smoke a roll-up it's too messy.

I'm vaguely worried...about 0.007%, but thread-worthy IMO
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  • edited April 2009
    How deep? How long of a cut? Inside the lip (inside mouth) or outside?

    Tried a large icecube? Bunch of them?

    Don't talk for 5 minutes, don't move your mouth/lips ... any change?
  • edited April 2009
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    How deep? How long of a cut? Inside the lip (inside mouth) or outside?

    I merely peeled a flap of dead skin off my lip. do this all the time, but it never seems to bleed.

    ice cubes at the ready tho...good thinking batman - I mean znorxman
  • edited April 2009
    Any change yet?

    How large of a flap would you say it was? Small strip or a thumb-sized flap?
  • edited April 2009
    right in the middle of my lower lip...flap of skin probably about the size of a little (or 'pinky', I think you say) fingernail.

    still bleeding now. obviously I'm unlikely to die, but I'm just thinking the potential bloodloss could make me tired/obnoxious tomorrow.
  • edited April 2009
    Hmmm, well ... I'm out of ideas.

    The only thing I can recommend is the icecube method. Applied constantly right on the spot for as long as you can bear it. The ice will constrict the fine blood vessels. It is important that you don't move the mouth/lips for the rest of the evening/night/early morn ... and if the ice is too cold for your fingers then try wrapping the cube(s) in a washcloth or a thin (clean) rag of some sort.

    Don't drink alcohol for the rest of your waking hours (nor for a day or two) as it thins the blood, thereby increasing the risk of bloodloss.

    Sorry but I have to hit the hay sack now ... I wish you the best. If it's serious then, please don't hesitate to have a professional* look at it.

    *Doctor not a prozzie.
  • edited April 2009
    Heat up the end of a knife on the gas stove / electric ring thing, and wack the end of the blade on your cut.

    It'll sting for about a year and you'll be disfigured for life - but it works!
  • edited April 2009
    If you decide to follow Afrobush's instructions then you will just have to take pics and post them here :-P ... remember to label them NSFW so I will know to not peek at them.
  • edited April 2009
    I'm not going to follow frobrush's instructions. I value my lips, when I go out on the town in search of female flesh the first thing I think of is my lips (sometimes).

    but yeah 3 hours in and the bleeding has stopped, so panic over. I really wonder why my lip bled for so long...one for mulder & scully there.

    that whole ice pack/constricting blood vessels stuff was mad informative tho, maybe you should be a doctor.
  • edited April 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Heat up the end of a knife on the gas stove / electric ring thing, and wack the end of the blade on your cut.

    It'll sting for about a year and you'll be disfigured for life - but it works!

    I was actually gonna say stub the rolly out on it to cauterize it, but I think your plan works better in the short. :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited April 2009
    i cut my lip once it bled for ages, i think the skin on it doesn't heal like proper skin. i had to use super glue in the end. worked a treat. few days later the little blob fell off with it healed.
  • edited April 2009
    mile wrote: »
    i cut my lip once it bled for ages, i think the skin on it doesn't heal like proper skin. i had to use super glue in the end. worked a treat. few days later the little blob fell off with it healed.

    Super Glue was/is used on wounded soldiers in combat - it was/is a quick way to close up wounds.

    Saftey pins are used to tie tounges to cheeks so they don't get bitten off when in pain and there isn't any morphine.
  • edited April 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Super Glue was/is used on wounded soldiers in combat - it was/is a quick way to close up wounds.

    yeah you can buy stuff like that for a first aid kit, we used to have some but it had gone missing when i looked for it. it was called 'second skin' or something.
  • edited April 2009
    mile wrote: »
    yeah you can buy stuff like that for a first aid kit, we used to have some but it had gone missing when i looked for it. it was called 'second skin' or something.

    Usually on the instructions it says "Bonds Skin And Eyes In Seconds!". I don't know if this is a warning or a target!
  • edited April 2009
    mile wrote: »
    yeah you can buy stuff like that for a first aid kit, we used to have some but it had gone missing when i looked for it. it was called 'second skin' or something.

    Aye New Skin smells like nail polish remover and it friggin' knacks when you put it on, you're better off not bothering :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited April 2009
    Dermabond is the version of superglue used to treat wounds

    New Skin is (as far as I can tell) Cellulose nitrate (known as dope to model makers)

    It stings like hell when your dad practically pours it into a huge open cut.
  • edited April 2009
    def chris wrote: »
    I value my lips, when I go out on the town in search of female flesh the first thing I think of is my lips
    .

    err, most guys are thinking about the female's lips
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    edited April 2009
    No one thought about calling the doc or even the ambulance? When I cut my finger last summer and it wouldnt stop bleeding, first thing I thought of was to call for an ambulance.
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  • edited April 2009
    Kilby wrote: »
    Dermabond is the version of superglue used to treat wounds

    Just looked that up and you can get it in "pen" form. 6 for about ?135. Just go to Cost Cutters et all and get hundreds of their cyanide filled crap for a tenner!

    Chances are - if you need gluing up, your pretty much f*cked!
  • edited April 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Just looked that up and you can get it in "pen" form. 6 for about £135. Just go to Cost Cutters et all and get hundreds of their cyanide filled crap for a tenner!

    Chances are - if you need gluing up, your pretty much f*cked!

    can come in handy if you like to break expensive vases over the heads of your famiy.
  • edited April 2009
    In mathematics, the gluing axiom is introduced to define what a sheaf F on a topological space X must satisfy, given that it is a presheaf, which is by definition a contravariant functor

    F: O(X) → C
    to a category C which initially one takes to be the category of sets. Here O(X) is the partial order of open sets of X ordered by inclusion maps; and considered as a category in the standard way, with a unique morphism

    U → V
    if U is a subset of V, and none otherwise.

    I rest my case.
  • edited April 2009
    mile wrote: »
    can come in handy if you like to break expensive vases over the heads of your famiy.

    To glue the vases or the heads?
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited April 2009
    mile wrote: »
    can come in handy if you like to break expensive vases over the heads of your famiy.


    Depends on whos vases they are, it's always fun to have a family rampage in a shop (or two)
  • edited April 2009
    bleugh wrote: »
    err, most guys are thinking about the female's lips

    bah...that'll explain why I once ended up snogging myself behind the bicycle sheds then. :-(
  • edited April 2009
    I hope the Lemoners don't see this thread...
  • edited April 2009
    beanz wrote: »
    I hope the Lemoners don't see this thread...

    nah, they'll be too busy stroking each others bums and going 'oooohhh you have handsome cheeks.'









    probably
  • edited April 2009
    Seeing the thread title 'doctor in the house' now has me singing in my head some crappy UK house tune from the late 80's ! 'doctor in the house, who's house ?' or something like that.
  • edited April 2009
    Better than humming the 'Man about the house' theme that I am now doing.
  • edited April 2009
    are you sure it's doctor in the house.

    isn't it 'feelings in the house'?
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