Meridian Surgi-Lock 2oc Instant Tissue Adhesive

Love, love, love this stuff. My fingers crack from all the alcohol we use at work and previously used n-butyl cyanoacrylate. However, this has always been purple and it is much more rigid in nature, not flexing with the skin like Surgi-Lock (which is 2-octyl cyanoacrylate). In addition, it feels almost rubbery in nature and due to the ability of it to withstand movement lasts much longer then n-BCA. It also comes in a little bottle, which I have opened and closed at least a dozen times, without it hardening up. This is super nice as things like dermabond only allow for one use. If you run out of pipettes, simply order some 0.2 ml micro ones and then you can continue to use the same bottle. I'm still on my first but like it so much that a second bottle was ordered, for when the first ones gone. This stuff is heavenly for those with split fingers. Also works well for those of us who's skin tears on the bottom of ones toes when playing raquetball. Although wrightsocks work best for this, this adds another layer of protection and works great for when all ones wrightsocks are needing to be washed. Yep, am thoroughly impressed with this stuff.

The little applicators are great. One is good for doing a single injury. Not supposed to put it back in the bottle if you need more glue, though I have and the next time I used the glue, it was perfectly fine and not dried up. Just wish it were a little more cost effective. Still a necessity for serious preps or first aid kits.

Does not hold for long if there's much movement. Disappointed.

Great product

Incredible product. I just received it in the mail two days ago. Boy am I glad I had it on hand. My dog had a cyst on his chest burst and he was bleeding quite a bit (scary!!) I called the vet and they basically told me to F-off… so I took matters into my own hands. His neck was oozing blood so I blotted it with a towel and quickly put the adhesive over the wound. It stopped bleeding immediately. This product may have saved his life. Thank you!

Does the job better than Super Glue and Vetbond. It takes a bit longer to bond (~30+ seconds) than a Super Glue, but it is more flexible and kept the wound very well closed on two cat legs better than any of the other two glues. The pipettes also make it easy to only capture a small dose required for most wounds. Thanks to the review of T.T. on another product to make clear the difference between the different chemical compositions of the glues.This is 2-octyl cyanoacrylate and it's the same compound used in Dermabond that is used at the doc office or the emergency room on humans. My daughter had a cut closed by Dermabond.More expensive, but worth the expense.I am ordering two more, one for the house, and one for the emergency kit.Normally, not to be used on humans because the vial is not sterile like Dermabond is, otherwise, same compound.The product itself is hemostatic and thus will help stop bleeding.It saved us about 15 visits to the vet because the cat found ways to reach the wounds even with the cone, or was able to remove the cone in a few instances.

Okay, so this may sound crazy. However, I purchased this because my husband told me at one time, a friend of his got a gash somewhere on his person, and when he went to the emergency room, instead of getting stitches the glued the gash together and voila, it healed nicely. So having tissue severed from a fingertip using a julienne slicer, I used this glue to adhere the skin back to the finger and put medical tape around it with hopes that it would reconnect and the cells would not die. True story: fingertip started to reattach and . Had to keep the wound dry and not keep the bandage so tight that it would cut off circulation. Now I am not recommending this or saying try it at home. But when I look it up online, the crazy procedures they may perform if you were to go to an emergency room, that involved stitches that may or may not work, and if it does not, they would have to remove it anyway, etc. Did not want to have to go through that. I just thank GOD it worked out. GOD created our bodies and cells with regenerative abilities and in this case, finger looks like nothing ever happened!

This is the best glue I've used. Sealed a cut and it stayed sealed for days.