[pct-l] Super Glue (cyanoacrylate) Was: Feet treatment

[brick@fastpack.com (Brick Robbins)]

At 09:58 AM 8/7/02, David hiking PCNST in bits wrote:
>Of course the REAL issue is what to do about painful cracks, canyons really,
>in your leathery callouses on the bottoms of your feet.
>Some folks advocate stuff like Krazy Glue.

A medical form of Super Glue (cyanoacrylate) was used quite successfully as
emergency battlefield sutures in Vietnam.... it should work fine on your
feet. The medical form may be slightly different than the stuff at the
drugstore, but for external use, it shouldn't matter much.
http://128.84.243.18/~saltzman/Classes/ENGRI_120/Research_Papers/paper32.PDF
http://www.fensende.com/Users/swnymph/refs/glue.html

A current FDA approved medial version is called "Dermabond"
http://www.dermabond.com/

YMMV. Have a look at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/rtecs/as6acfc0.html
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