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You got some weird stuff then, I've got a tube of Krazy glue brand in my hand right now putting it on stuff trying to find something that heats/smokes.  The regular stuff isn't doing it, I think I have some of the gel too, gonna' try that next.  Just glued the finger of a wool GI glove liner to a 2X4 scrap, no smoke or heat.

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If the laceration is so deep that it goes well beyond the epidermis and into the fascia, adipose, or muscle tissue, super glue might be the last thing applied, but not the first.  A deep wound needs to be bled and cleaned first, then closed.  This often involves sutures, or sutures and glue.



I had a deep laceration closed on my hand this way, and I scrubbed it out with an iodine brush before they sutured and glued it.



With small cuts, I like to use the body's mechanisms to help me out, like internal pressure.  I will squeeze the small cut in order to get it to push out any foreign debris, then wash it, but the 14psi internal pressure does a good job of expelling most pathogens if you let it do its work.



Once I wash it, I'll wrap an ice cube in gauze or a paper towel, apply it to the injured site while elevating, in order to get the flow to stop.  Then I'll apply the glue and keep it elevated.

I keep glue in my aid bags specifically for this.








Good point.  The Gel type is what I use now since it doesn't run, so I prefer it.

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The story was that it was originally invented by a surgeon for that purpose.   There is also a product called Nu Skin that is an anteseptic glue and works much like Super Glue.