ProAdvantage Sterile Butterfly Closure Bandages, Medium, Latex-Free, 100/bx

I worked as an ER physician for 35 years and used many types of steri-strips, with and without Benzoin skin adhesive. These strips are durable and adhere well. Obviously the area should be clean and as dry as possible. Ointments are great for wound healing and minimizing scars, but they cannot be used prior to placing any strips. Putting ointments on after placing strips will shorten the life of the strips. If a wound keeps on bleeding and strips cannot hold the wound easily then you will most likely need more secure wound closure such as sutures or staples. I was surprised at the quality of these strips for them to sell for 5 cents each. I highly recommend a box of these for every home or first aid kit.

These are of excellent quality, easy to use, and come in handy whether at home or camping.

Didn't really need them, just for the prep kit.

They work as advertised although they're not surgical grade as when wet, and don't stick as well with movement. They're good if you bandage over them with something like an elastic stretch wrap, and I'm generally pleased at the price and quality. Hope to find ones like they use in hospitals tho.

The adhesive is good , not the greatest but it's good. Used it for my home medical kit, and car medical kit.

As a parent of four young children, I purchased these at the outbreak of COVID-19 knowing that going to the ER/urgent care may not be a great option. Lo-and-behold, two weeks later my 4 year old got a nasty gash on the back of his head. It was borderline stitches territory, but my wife and I cleaned it up with some peroxide and made sure he didn't have any other symptoms of concussion or fracture and then decided to use the butterfly bandages. It took only one to pull together the centimeter-long cut. I carefully shaved his head in the area so the bandages would stick, but they still struggled a bit, so we used some medical tape at the ends to keep it in place and checked it regularly to make sure it wasn't slipping and replaced it once or twice a day depending on how well it was holding. I don't think that would be an issue for cuts anywhere else on the body. We used some prescription-strength topical antibiotic ointment that we had on hand from another situation and I applied a bandaid to cover the injury. So far the cut has stayed together quite well and there is no sign of infection, and this is day three. There might be a scar, but stitches usually leave nasty scars anyway. I'm really glad we had these on hand! They saved us hours of waiting in the ER and risk of exposure to COVID-19 and they work.

I needed to use a couple of these right after I purchased them for my first aid kit. Wife cut off the better part of a fingertip, we were camping, at least an hour from a medical facility. So I sutured her up. A short month later she's right as rain, the finger looks fully healed. This is an essential for your first aid kit! Essentially, these do the work of sutures (stitches) without needing to penetrate the skin multiple times like with stitches. People who wouldn't have the slightest idea how to tie a stitch can apply a butterfly suture, my Mom used them on me more than once when I was young. Always follow up with a medical professional! And, do not use butterfly sutures on a puncture wound or animal bite.

Very good adhesion. Applied 3 before going to bed, took long shower next morning, same 3 are still adhering very, very well this afternoon. Top quality. ( December 2020 / Lot 20231 ) To open: Peel from one end where paper separates. (see my photo). Pull up on now exposed butterfly bandage. As you do this one section of adhesive release paper will purposely stay/stick to paper wrapper (this is so you can handle one side of bandage without contaminating. Then, if you are ready, you can either peel off the other sides release paper or wait and stick bandage in place then begin to halfway remove final release paper and pull skin into compression, stick down half exposed adhesive, and pull remaining release paper completely off to stick the rest of bandage down.