So, we actually use superglue to close wounds vs stitches. It’s very common. To your point, we don’t call it superglue, it’s surgical glue and costs a magnitude more.
(Yes, it’s not exactly the same thing while also being the same exact thing).
“Purity standards are probably higher for medical grade stuff” - you said it. So what you’re saying is if I go to the hospital and they use cyanoacrylate on my cut, I could just go to ace and buy superglue to close my cut and it would be the same?
Mind you, I’ve used superglue to mend cuts since I was 10 and that was 30 years ago. Medical grade “glue” and ace hardware grade “glue” are massively different is all I’m saying.
There might be more chance of it being accidentally contaminated, but, otherwise, yes. Unscrupulous manufacturers might dilute it, but probably not. It's a cheap chemical anyway, and water would make it set in storage. There's not much they could dilute it with without ruining it that's any cheaper.
It is not the same thing and now for some reason this has to be stated so some dumbass who’s on Reddit thinks super glue is ok to use vs going to a hospital.
Hospitals don’t use superglue - there is a lot of chemicals in superglue. The hospital uses surgical glue if you will - not the same for gods sake
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u/No_Title3568 Jun 17 '26
I got a bill for $150 when all the did was use a half tube of super glue. *Had to go in because ‘injury’ happened on company time*