Dynarex Adhesive Bandage, Butterfly Fab, Medium, 3/8 Inches x 1 13/16 Inches Sterile, 100 Count

These are okay quality. I'm not sure I'd buy them again. We bought a few boxes for First Aid training, so we went through about two boxes. That's 200 of these butterfly strips. True to the product description, you get 100 individually sealed and sterilized butterfly bandages for $3.38The bandages are 3/8" wide by 1-3/4" long, standard butterfly size. Before I continue, let's be clear on what the purpose of a butterfly bandage is...It's a smaller version of a steri-strip. It's for lacerations that are too gaping or long for regular bandages, but not bad enough for stitches. You have to clean the area they're to be applied to, then use rubbing alcohol or BZK to make the surface oil-free. Then let it dry. Then you place one of the "wings" of the butterfly over one side of the wound, pull it so the cut is lined up, and then push the other "wing" to the side you pulled towards...So, do they work? These do, sometimes. In the 200 we used, about 25 or 30 wouldn't stick. We'd clean the wound, apply BZK, let it dry, and they just wouldn't stick. The butterflies had adhesive - we could feel the stickiness - but they wouldn't stick to the wound area. We then tried rubbing alcohol. Same thing. Keep in mind, this is 25 or so out of 200, so a little over 10% of the product was no good.The other 90% worked just fine. Keep in mind that if you go to the pharmacy or even the discount store, butterfly bandages typically sell for $1 for a package of 15. Compare that to $3.38 for 100 here, and it really is a bargain; even if 10% of them are duds, they're still cheaper than buying them at the store.

I love these for holding wound edges together. You can adhere one end then pull it across the wound and secure it while keeping wound edges aligned. They stay on well and can hold even with a wound having some drainage. They’re great to hold a wound together while placing another dressing on top.

Always should have these on hand for serious cuts.

I got a rather bad laceration from dropping a knife on my big toe. It was a very nice knife, very sharp. $200. Admittedly I might have checked the knife for injury before paying attention to the rather egregious opening, from which the amount of blood could have summoned quite a few demons had my curse words been just a little bit more well enunciated. But I digress.Now these have done their job. They stick fairly well past sweat, blood, and movement. In fact, they've done well enough that not only do they prevent me from leaking my precious life fluids, but they also have closed the wound well enough that I might actually come out of this with not so much as a scar to compete with a cat scratch. I would show photo proof, but that really would only work if I showed the before and I'm sure nobody really wants to see that. It's kind of cool though.

I took a gamble on these and lost. I go through a lot of butterfly bandages in the winter. I get cracks in the skin around my thumbnail. The best treatment I've found is to use a butterfly to hold the crack shut. I like that I can leave it on when I wash my hands and a brand name butterfly doesn't interfere with the use of my thumb.Well, these butterfly bandages are very stiff. "Stiff as a board" comes to mind but that would be an exaggeration. I tried one on my thumb and it didn't want to bend and when I forced it to, the ends didn't stick very well. It was uncomfortable and even though I now own 100 of these babies, I am going to go buy a new box of the name brand butterflies (even though the cost will be several factors higher).I peeled the butterfly off my thumb and tried putting it on the back of my hand where it stuck nicely. However, I don't know how to describe how stiff and unflexible these bandages are. It's kind of like having an index card stuck to your skin.I believe they would work fine for a wound on a flat stretch of one's body and in a situation where comfort/thinness/flexibility didn't matter at all.