Easy way to get a deeply embedded splinter out?

[FortFunFoSho]

I have skin like leather. Usually I just soak my skin until it becomes pretty easy to work the splinter out. This one is a bit deeper.

Any suggestions?

 

[VBboy]

I don't know, try sucking it out or something. Create enough negative pressure for it to come out. Or cut out all the meat around it and remove it by hand :Q

 

[bolido2000]

I thought this was a splinter cell thread

 

[nmcglennon]

slice and dice...

I would use a small pin-needle and try pushing it out, and use tweezers too... also try squeezing it out.

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: nmcglennon
slice and dice...

I would use a small pin-needle and try pushing it out, and use tweezers too... also try squeezing it out.

I hope that first your heat the needle up to kill all the bacteria on it...

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: nmcglennon
slice and dice...

I would use a small pin-needle and try pushing it out, and use tweezers too... also try squeezing it out.

I hope that first your heat the needle up to kill all the bacteria on it...

Bingo. Boil the tweezers & needle first. That's the method I use for the deep ones. Shallow ones, I just whip out the ol' Leatherman and work the edge of the blade to "slide" it out.

- M4H

 

[foolanger]

i usually use a needle.. I'm starting to think that i should boil it first after reading this thread.

 

[Narse]

Originally posted by: foolanger
i usually use a needle.. I'm starting to think that i should boil it first after reading this thread.

I just take a lighter to them until they glow a nice red, and then use the needle to remove the splinter.

 

[Electric Amish]

Supposedly if you wrap it in a piece of bread that has been soaked in milk it will remove itself...*shrug*

amish

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: foolanger
i usually use a needle.. I'm starting to think that i should boil it first after reading this thread.

Depends. Do you like pus-filled, swelling bulbous growths on your finger or not?

(Subtitle - Boil it or sterilize it somehow.)

- M4H

 

[aircooled]

sterile x-acto knife

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Supposedly if you wrap it in a piece of bread that has been soaked in milk it will remove itself...*shrug*

amish

Yes, it is true: the bread will eventually remove itself
I think that's supposed to losen up the flesh or something.

You can always stick another splinter from the other end and push the first one out... :Q

 

[xirtam]

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Supposedly if you wrap it in a piece of bread that has been soaked in milk it will remove itself...*shrug*

amish

Yes, it is true: the bread will eventually remove itself
I think that's supposed to losen up the flesh or something.

You can always stick another splinter from the other end and push the first one out... :Q

That's more or less what a needle is.

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: xirtam

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Supposedly if you wrap it in a piece of bread that has been soaked in milk it will remove itself...*shrug*

amish

Yes, it is true: the bread will eventually remove itself
I think that's supposed to losen up the flesh or something.

You can always stick another splinter from the other end and push the first one out... :Q

That's more or less what a needle is.

No, I meant from the other side:

New splinter --(--> finger --)--> Old splinter

 

[xirtam]

Yeah. Didn't the school nurses use that technique except with needles?

 

[tweakmm]

If it isn't hurting too much you could just leave it in there and let your body break it down

 

[GasX]

step 1: rub some feces into the wound to ensure an infection
step 2: wait 48 hours
step 3: squeeze area around swollen and festering wound
step 4: watch splinter and pressurized pus fly accross the room
step 5: take IV antibiotics

 

[damiano]

chop the hand off

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
If it isn't hurting too much you could just leave it in there and let your body break it down

I think you're confusing him with the Borg
It will be rotting in there and stuff.. Gots to get it out!

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
If it isn't hurting too much you could just leave it in there and let your body break it down

are there any adverse reactions to doing this?

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk

Originally posted by: tweakmm
If it isn't hurting too much you could just leave it in there and let your body break it down

are there any adverse reactions to doing this?

Oh, not many.. risk of infection -> amputation -> unhappy_life..

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk

Originally posted by: tweakmm
If it isn't hurting too much you could just leave it in there and let your body break it down

are there any adverse reactions to doing this?

Depends what the splinter is made of. A glass splinter might not get infected if you wash the wound well, but it won't break down - hope it works its own way out. A wood splinter is not going to be sterile and will likely get infected unless it comes out.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: xospec1alk

Originally posted by: tweakmm
If it isn't hurting too much you could just leave it in there and let your body break it down

are there any adverse reactions to doing this?

Depends what the splinter is made of. A glass splinter might not get infected if you wash the wound well, but it won't break down - hope it works its own way out. A wood splinter is not going to be sterile and will likely get infected unless it comes out.

Hmm... I've left a couple splinters in my hand and I'm still alive with both hands attached and intact. Maybe your body doesn't break it down but pops the splinter out? I was always told that you could leave splinters in and you would be fine.
If this is wrong then maybe you should disregard my advice(I think I will too actually)

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Supposedly if you wrap it in a piece of bread that has been soaked in milk it will remove itself...*shrug*

amish

This actually works. It is also very effective in drawing puss/nasty crap out on an infection. The only downside is that it feels gross.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: xospec1alk

Originally posted by: tweakmm
If it isn't hurting too much you could just leave it in there and let your body break it down

are there any adverse reactions to doing this?

Depends what the splinter is made of. A glass splinter might not get infected if you wash the wound well, but it won't break down - hope it works its own way out. A wood splinter is not going to be sterile and will likely get infected unless it comes out.

Hmm... I've left a couple splinters in my hand and I'm still alive with both hands attached and intact. Maybe your body doesn't break it down but pops the splinter out? I was always told that you could leave splinters in and you would be fine.
If this is wrong then maybe you should disregard my advice(I think I will too actually)

Actually, the body really *does* push the splinter out by itself. Just takes a bloody long time. The body is an incredible thing . . ..