[Closed] Survey - Worst thing to get in a cut

An infection.

Aftershave

My ex's, sister's, ex-boyfriend (stay with me) worked in a kitchen in a pub and once managed to cut the tips of three fingers off in one go. He was cutting lemons at the time. That must have smarted.

dog poo?

I once spilled some glacial acetic acid (vinegar, but as concentrated as it can possibly be) on my hand the day after a somewhat abrasive rock climbing session.

I said rude words and always remembered to wear gloves when handling it again.

Oh. C. U. T.? Read it too fast

A massive knife?

EDIT: A massive rusty knife?
EDIT2: A massive rusty knife with dog poo on it?

In a moment of monumental stupidity a few years back I sprayed isopropyl alcohol up through a brake caliper whilst looking down through it to make sure it was going where I wanted.

It didn't. It went in my eyes. It stung. Bigly.

Alcohol hand gel at work. Have to keep on using it

Smashing a heparin ampule is good as well. Cuts don't clot!

Dichloromethane smarts a bit.

Especially if the cut was the result of cracking an NMR tube.

Not sure if it's synesthesia or just the solvent but it turns out you can "see" pain!

For context, if you've not worked in a lab or had the privilege of Nitromors in the days before it turned from paint stripper to expensive goo, DCM smarts a bit if you get it on your skin, let alone under it!

I can't think of anything worse. I was still going to sites a few weeks ago and using Alcohol bases gels to clean my hands, small cut on my palm was making me wince.

In my youth I had 2 jobs for a bit, worked in a warehouse during the day and a bar at night.

One Friday morning I sliced my palm open on a cardboard box, didn’t bleed a huge amount but it was a big thick paper cut about 3 inches long. I forgot about it after a bit, until I was at work at night and someone ordered tequila slammers and I managed to get tequila, lime juice and salt in it.

That stung a bit.

Dichloromethane smarts a bit.

Especially if the cut was the result of cracking an NMR tube.

done the same thing but with nitric acid

Not quite the same, but I was once doing at bit of Yellow Pages with my girlfriend (now wife) after chopping some rather strong chillies. When the hit hit, it HIT!

I have no idea how chillies stay around so long. I can unconsciously wipe me eye hours after chopping and many hand washes and still.. AHHHHHHGGGGHHHH! 😂

^^^ Yep, I also once put contacts in the morning after another chilli chopping event. And the only way I could get the contacts out was by putting my bloody fingers back in there :-O

Not sure about cuts, but being a 24/7 galaxy brain I managed to get some of the dust from these in my eye a few weeks back.

The next 30 minutes were... upleasant.

Necrotising Fasciitis?

Sodium Metabisulfite. In the meat trade its called 'Madam'
Comes as power, mix with water and used as a preservative.
Prevents sausages like cut square from discolouring.
Also was the original ingrediant to peach paper, which before putting cut meat in the chill overnight, you place the paper on top and the next morning the meat is still fresh and bright red.
Its basic function is to stop the cut surface from drying.

Any cuts you have and in a shop handling cut bones and you always get lots of little cuts and scrapes from the bones which usually get infected.
Be brave and stick the cuts into the madam bucket and that cleans better than antiseptic.

Paper cuts sticg like its on fire, I've yet to get it in a deeper cut.

Dunno what it would be like in a cut, but I used to wear contacts that required a two-part sterilisation process, (and at this point I’m pretty sure some will know exactly where I’m going); one morning I forgot to put the neutralising liquid in the container and put a lens straight in my eye. That. Hurt. A. Lot. I couldn’t get the lens out, my eye closed up like a fist, and it was about twenty minutes before I could get the lens out.
It was a mistake I never made again. The liquid had hydrogen peroxide in, an organic bleach, so great stuff for cleaning a wound, but it might smart a bit...
Actually, I did have a cut get infected, so I put some lens sterilisation fluid on it, and it fizzed quite a lot! Cleaned the cut up, but didn’t actually sting much.

For pain.... back in my art school days .... alternating between working with chicken wire than popping into the print room to check on the progress of a plate that was in the acid bath

Not painful but...  purple dylon can give you some interesting reminders of cuts for a while

A guy fishing in Birmingham told me he'd caught a whale in the cut, but chucked it back cos all the spokes were bent...

IGMC.....

Salt and vinegar Seabrook.

That old 2 stage contact lense cleaning solution where the first stage is hydrogen peroxide-based and the other is the neutraliser.

Well, don't forget to neutralise.

Hydrogen peroxide in the eye smarts. A lot.

Or the good, old wisdom tooth abscess. That smarts. A lot.

Edit. Neither are cuts but hurt

Oven cleaner.

HOLY LUMPIN' ****!!!

I cut my finger to the bone sharpening a kitchen knife and a couple of weeks later, after it had almost healed, I burst it open again hammering a nail. So I would say a hammer, a hammer is the worst thing to get in a cut.

I feel your pain OP (literally).

Had a student nurse wipe down my open wound with alcohol gel prior to stitching, they thought I was faking my howls of pain until they checked and realised she'd picked up the wrong bottle.

I re-felted the shed last week and thought nothing more of it until I squeezed a lemon through my fingers. Pain by a thousand micro-nicks.

Piers Morgan

A single strand of hair from Trump’s hair wig alien master

I'll second Hydrogen Peroxide in the eye as being quite painful.

Early morning, forgotten to neutralise lenses, pick up first and stuff in eye, roll around on floor screaming silently (didn't want anyone else to wake up and realise how stupid I was) before clawing myself up to the sink throwing water into my face hoping some got in beyond an eyelid involuntarily clamped tightly closed.
Removing the lens was not easy.

Going back to the isopropanol stinging, I worked with that stuff a lot, and often had cuts or splits in the skin on my fingers, due to handling paper all the time, and yes, it stings a bit, but nowhere close to hydrogen peroxide in the eye!

What about Tea Tree Oil and mint shower gel on the gentleman's sausage. That's pretty bad.

A bit of lego

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What about Tea Tree Oil and mint shower gel on the gentleman’s sausage. That’s pretty bad.

I find that quite enjoyable normally, but using that stuff immediately after man-scaping is a mistake.

The worst thing I can think of is alum, like those shaving block thingies.
It's a bit zingy but bearable using it on your face after a small shaving mishap, but I used it to try and calm down quite a big cut on my finger and it stung a lot, to the point where my legs started doing a sort of reflex action jig all on their own, while I pulled faces and tried not to swear.

Sulphuric acid, find memories from my jewellery manufacturing days.
(I didn't scream like a girl, honest)

Over the years
Trichloroethylene
methyl ethyl ketone
Acetone
Toluene
They all sting like a bastard

A nice bit of xenomorph blood might smart a bit. 😉

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A guy fishing in Birmingham told me he’d caught a whale in the cut, but chucked it back cos all the spokes were bent…

IGMC…..

😂😂

Plutonium

My least favourite thing to get in a cut is commercial dishwasher detergent.

It's a fairly strong mix of Sodium or Potassium Hydroxide and it stings like a proper B@#$%rd.

Given that the insides of most commercial dishwashers seem to be made of old razor blades, I get to experience it quite often😡

I'll second methyl ethyl ketone.
Holy mother that hurts.

A paper cut, ok ish but...worked for HSE inputting details of accidents, has input decapitations, all sorts but the very worst one was definitely a paper cut
Typist had some paper stuck in a typewriter (yes, that long ago)...she eventually yanked it out and it went across her eye, causing a paper cut right across her eyeball...yuck !

I have palmar psoriasis on both hands, which cracks and bleeds like micro cuts. Yes I'm loving the alcohol disinfectant gel. I've had the virus already though, so sod the rest.

Aluminium oxide or TRS PVC cable insulation!
Both resulted in a nice level of infection.

A hungry tiger.

Nick
Necrotising Fasciitis?

Yep check for it...fell over running in Grenowoods lucky review of x ray picked it up...leaf mould is a bad un...having flesh cut out and the pain of it healing a good thing :_)

A Horse.

Used to work in a restaurant - one of the prep jobs in the morning was to dice a whole tray of fresh chillies.

Lack of careful handwashing afterwards made nose itching, eye rubbing and even having a slash "memorable".

Not quite the same, but on day 3 of Beautiful Days festival, feeling a bit smelly, I found that hand sanitiser should only be used on hands.

Anyone seen Crash?

I once skinned my knee and stupidly believed the instructions on the Elastoplast Liquid Plaster Spray that it was gentle and kind. It ****ing wasn't.

No direct experience, but I once got called to a house where a local drug-dealer had been caught and punished by some local folk with no tolerance of such wrongdoing. He'd been cable tied by his hands to a beam in the cellar, horsewhipped and had chilli powder and lemon juice massaged liberally into the abundant cuts and weals. He wasn't particularly comfortable or happy.

Blood blister on my big toe that as a young man I'd ignored for a length of time that was somewhere between "Should've got that seen to a few weeks ago and You're toenail will probably never regrow if you leave it any longer"

The doctor who treated it, did so by uncoiling a paper clip, sterilising a pointy end, and jabbing into my toenail. If it had lasted longer than a micro-second the pain would have been astonishing. The pressure build up was such that the black goo shot out of my toenail like a mentos-coke joke, and the doctor encouraged it by pressing- hard- on the offending toe...I had to lie down before I vomited.

Pistachio nuts n stuff

I infected my index finger good n proper by deshelling without any real finger nails

Woke up and by jeebuz was it stinging intense pain just from looking at it, more so obvious when touching even slightly

Watch out pistachio fans they will get you sooner or later 🤡

I once skinned my knee and stupidly believed the instructions on the Elastoplast Liquid Plaster Spray that it was gentle and kind. It **** wasn’t.

TCP spray plaster is my go to for cuts and scrapes as it really does seem to stop infection and promote faster healing.

But **** me! it doesn't half nip when you spray it on

This is timely - all the time at home I'm doing more cooking, cleaning and gardening. As a result my hands are dried out, cracked and littered with cuts and scrapes. Last night was a good one...

I've sliced the end of finger with a knife - my right pointy finger so gets in everything. I was scratching my lockdown beard last night and a bristle stuck into the cut like a needle. It was brief, not like the prolonged effect of spilling lemon juice on it, but **** me I winced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

Seriously, don't pick your nose and go freshwater swimming. You've been warned.

"N. fowleri normally eat bacteria, but during human infections, the trophozoites consume astrocytes and neurons"

As a kid it used to be TCP on every cut or graze, home or school. Kids these days have it too easy.

Also old-skool warm up rub for 1980s cyclo-cross races. That stuff proper stung anywhere it shouldn't have been!