Many times we have to turn to home remedies, first aid or even makeshift bandages for cuts for when you are injured slightly and need some type of first aid--to cover the wound--and to help stop the bleeding. At times we do not have anything handy--not even a band aid. In this case you can make do with home first aid. Here's some suggestions of how to clean and keep the cut clean until you can get bandages and medications. Maybe you don't even have peroxide...


Steps

1. Wash the wound well with something including Peroxide to kill the germs or just clean it with a new bottle/can of either a carbonated beverage or bottled water if that is available. But, you would not want to use greases, milk or fruit juices (especially not one with pulp and acids) all of which might cause problems.
2. Use any type of tape you have in the house or car tool kit, etc. It is just temporary.
3. Find some clean material like gauze--or "paper towel" if you do not have any sterile dressing--
   Tear or cut a piece of the paper towel to fit the site of the wound. Toilet tissue is not recommended as it is too weak--fragile--and does come all apart and perhaps get into the cut.
4. Cut the paper towel to any shape that is needed--a long rectangle or a small square, etc.
5. Place the gauze or the paper towel over the wound, to stop the bleeding.
6. Use the tape to secure the towel or other bandage that you just made.
7. Make do with a clean cloth--like a long enough strip from an old shirt or bed sheet--which can be used to tie over the paper towel to hold it in place if you have no tape. Do not make it very tight.

Tips

• The suggested ideas, their use and application decisions are entirely up to your judgment.

Warnings

• The ideas are not for treatment or cure, but are only suggestions and should not be used if anything better is available.
• Peroxide will not only kill the germs, it will also kill the skin cells which will cause your wound to scar
• The sugar in a bottled or canned drink may be good for the tissue--sugar is definitely used in dressings for burns in some applications.