Health Tip: Treating a Deep Cut

(HealthDayNews) -- While you can treat most cuts at home, deeper ones require emergency medical treatment.

If your child cuts himself severely and you can''t get to the hospital right away, The Nemours Foundation suggests you:

• Rinse the wound and apply pressure to the cut with sterile gauze, a bandage or a clean cloth.
• If blood soaks through, place another bandage over the first, and continue applying pressure.
• Raise the inured part to slow bleeding, but don''t apply a tourniquet.

-- Felicity Stone