Why do paper cuts hurt so much?!
Question: Yesterday I got a paper cut on my hands and IT REALLY stings!! I am having a boring day today!! Any pick me ups would be greatly apprieciated!! x
Answers: Yesterday I got a paper cut on my hands and IT REALLY stings!! I am having a boring day today!! Any pick me ups would be greatly apprieciated!! x
Now the problem with paper cuts is that they usually occur on our hands, and hands just happen to have more nerve endings than any part of the body. Our palms and lips are areas particularly sensitive to touch, and therefore also to paper cuts, due to the presence of a particular type of touch receptor in these areas that responds to light touching.
A paper cut is generally not a serious injury despite how it feels, and only irritates the nerve endings in our hands rather than destroying them like a really bad injury would. This unfortunately means all the nerves work just fine as they send their message to the brain. In the case of a serious injury, it might not hurt too much to start with as the damaged nerves have to repair them before they can contact the brain.
What else? Well, paper cuts aren't the same as razor cuts - the edge of the paper is pretty blunt and serrated so it rips and tears our flesh leaving little bits of paper in the wound. Our body doesn't like it much when foreign objects end up imbedded in our skin and it tells us about it by making it hurt.
So, knowing all of this, I'm afraid isn't going to make a paper cut hurt any less but at least you know what is causing all the pain now.
Put some vaseline on it - its the air on the open cut..
no idea they are sooo small but they kill sooooooooo much
It's because the cut is so shallow, and the cut is over a small surface area of pain receptors which are left open to air. You should use liquid bandage or something of that sort.
Well you will just have to live with it, I know it hurts etc, but be brave. As for the boring day there isn't anything you can really do, I have been on the net all morning and haven't found anything new. I might start a list of the hottest ebay sellers .......... thats how bored I am. If you are in London and fancy a coffee, let me know.
i noticed that last time i had one.they sting for some reason lol.