An endorsment for scafool: anything that kills microbes kills the healthy tissue at the margins of the wound, slowing healing and speading infection: saline, soap and water work fine. If I cannot get the wound and edges clean, then I do not want to close the wound, cuz a closed wound with an infection in it is an abscess, and lots harder to treat. If the wound and margins are clean, and I want the steri-strips to stay on for awhile, I coat the intact skin that will receive the adhesive with tincture of benzoin, and then apply another coat of benoin on top of the steristrips. Keep it out of the wound. Hurts. Izzy: avoid nosebleeds by coating the inside of the nose with petroleum jelly-antibiotic ointment, chapstick, carmex and vicks all work well, tho the latter two choices are sort of exciting.