Thread: First aid kit pics

Superglue great for sealing superficial abrasions and it can be used to appose split skin edges.

Not easy to use superglue for closing split wounds - the wound sides need to be together, and the glue spread over the top of the skin (not in between the skin edges or it will prevents the skin edges growing together). Better to bandage a split wound, since unless you have been able to clean it thoroughly you may trap infection inside it by stitching/gluing. If it is kept clean your doctor CAN suture it at leisure, including more than 24hours after the injury, though some are reluctant to do so.

3M Micropore tape (or Pam's substitute), great for blisters or skin about to blister. It gives you an extra layer of armour.

Combat Action Tourniquets are frankly painful to apply properly, it is not because of them shutting down the blood supply (well, that too) but because they are very narrow and so have to be tighter around the limb to achieve compression of the artery. If you can get hold of a Blood Pressure cuff with an inflator, it will do the same job but with a lot less pain. But direct pressure and elevation of the bleeding limb is the go-to-first option.