the only difference is the price and the hoops that company X went through to get it into the OR for an inflated profit.

it's the adhesive

Depends what you are using a plaster for. If it's just to staunch the blood until a scab forms then I suppose anything will do. I'm a big believer in moist wound healing, and have plasters to this effect (hydrocolloid dressings). Then again, the nastiest owies I get tend to be what moist wound healing deals with - bits of missing skin. Burns and grazes are my usual injuries.

Okay, my burn plaster didn't do too well with the last one, but I took it off far too soon. The only icky thing about having a wet healing plaster on a graze is being able to see the open wound underneath (they are mostly transparent). Still, it's good for sympathy/ grossing people out :)

Question is, Flint - would you duct tape a bit of material to your kid's leg if they took the skin off their kneecap while running? I'd like to hope not. Some dressings help prevent scars after all.

but only the physical ones

Aye, there's the rub.

@SG: Please, at least, skim through the original post before tail-posting. I'm sorry that your parents didn't put a band-aid on your damn knee and scarred you for life. Quit trying to take it out on the rest of us.

Sorry for forgetting 5 words after reading 2 pages of posts.

However note that I asked a question in a polite manner.
That's what well brought up children do when they become adults.
Carry on taking offence if it eases the hurt inside you though.

Yeah, keep giving your awesome parenting advice.

I just can't understand why you'd get so worked up about an off the cuff comment.
I also don't understand your definition of tail posting - I always understood it to mean posting one comment after another.

And how is simply saying, "I'd like to hope not" in any way insulting to you, or even pretending to be "awesome parenting advice"? Okay, it's obvious I hadn't read or (as the case is) hadn't retained the information you wrote in your first post. But why the vitriol? I didn't post, "OMG, Flint is a bad parent, call Social Services!!!"

It was a valid post about why I would use a shop-bought product rather than making my own. I even qualified it by stating that my injuries are well suited to the products I buy.

The majority of my post was my personal experience as an adult as regards bandages/ plasters, and in no way referenced you. The second post was a quote from Hamlet's soliloquy and was meant in good humour - if anything it referred to my own upbringing as I escaped without physical scars, but I'm not sure I can say otherwise.

type too much = you lose

I lose = okay.
I was trying to understand is all.

It's not a competition.

Tampons were invented for nosebleeds -the menstrual use was an afterthought. These days they go for inflatable tampons for nosebleeds in the ER. One size fits all. it's meant to apply pressure directly to the spot rather than soak it up. i have too much recent experience in this field and all i can say is next time I'll choose bleeding to death.

nappies/Diapers also work for big bleeders, plus they are shaped and taped in a way that makes them easy to apply and get to stay in place no matter where the wound is. A must in any emergenct first aid kit -newborn size is perfect.

tail posting is joining in a topic at the end without (properly) reading what went on before... not really the case here

Bandaids require blood in our household

I'm allergic to latex and the adhesive, cloud. I find the cheap "water resistant' "breathable" ones have an adhesive I can tolerate for a few hours. they don't stick much longer than that... Often with allergies, I find the allergen is one of the products they leave out in cheaper versions (contrary to what they'd like you to believe)

Is.