Deep Splinters

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I have a splinter on my right pointer finger from a thorn bush I got on Monday. The problem is, it's too deep in to get it out with a tweaser. I'm pretty sure the area around it is infected, and I want to get it out soon. I soaked it in hot water this morning to ease the infection, but I still want to get this bastard out.

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[FUNKMAN]

have someone help and slowly pick through the surrounding skin above the splinter with a sewing needle. rub the needle with alcohol first. then when you can get to the splinter use a tweezer to extract...

i know i'm stating the obvious but you have to get it out as sonn asit happens. letting it sit and allowing it to get infected nly increases the 'extraction pain' later on...

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[dingo]

i usually take an exacto knife and stairlize the blade and cut it out by slightly sliceing the hole a little bit bigger and then use a twizer to pull it out but that is just me and if you get an infection don't blame me

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[SatCam]

ouch! I've always dreaded even just taking a splinter out. I guess it has to come out sometimes. Thanks for the advice.

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[sr71blackbird]

I usually do the same thing with the needle as described above, piercing the skin a layer at a time until I get down to the splinter and then use a needle point tweezer to take it out. But doctors have told me that leaving it in is probably better than risking the infection that eiter it or the needle cuts would inflict. The skin will "kerotonize" around the splinter and it would slowly work its way out over time. Witness a pensil tip that some kid had stuck me with when I was in 4th grade. He jabbed the palm of my hand and the point broke of and was lodged under the skin. About 3 years later. I was absently picking at my palm while in class when all of a sudden the pencil point popped out! The feeling that your feeling about it being infected is likely just your body telling you somethings in there and not really an infection. Likely.

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[sr71blackbird]

Try soaking it in a cup of Epson Salt and warm water.

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[JohnnyCash]

the worst is when you get the little metal shavings from drywall screws. You never just get one you get a dozen in your finger.
I usually just numb my finger with ice and then take a pin and dig the splinter out.

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[TooCute]

No, fiberglass splinters are even worse!!!

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[Katylina]

Damn-- it's those bushes that will get you!

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[keithy_19]

Sorry, but after it gets infected and sits in your body for a few days, the only thing you can do is cut off the finger. Or at least thats what I've been told.

I've also heard that chocolate covered pretzels cause cancer, but doesn't everything nowadays?

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[Arienette]

rub the needle with alcohol firstyou should burn the edge of the needly first. then you can put a little alcohol on it if you want (just keep the alcohol away from the flame).

if it's infected, though, you might want to consider seeing a doctor.

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[FUNKMAN]

there are also creams or ointments that lay claim to being able to draw out the splinter... not sure how well they work, i'm somewhat skeptical... heres one but if you search around on the net there are probably many others...


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[high fly]

Being a carpenter, I get them all the time.
The ones from athorn bush are often among the worst because they go straight in.
A splinter going in kind of parallel to the skin is easy to get out, you just cut alongside it with a brand new razor blade and job it out or grab the end with tweezers.
*Helpful hint for your tweezers: Often the surface is so smooth that you can't get such a good grip, what with the pus, blood, or that clear juice you sometimes get. What I do is clamp them down hard on a piece of #150 or #120 grit sandpaper and pull it sideways to roughen it up.
With a splinter going straight in, you've got to prepare yourself for some pain before going in.
I like a 3 or 4 shots of good scotch, maybe more. I don't want to be too fucked up, of course.
What you've got to do is slice down alongside the splinter and enlarge the hole so it'll come on out.
You've got to resist the urge to pinch the area too much, because the blood flow can help wash it out.
If it's not too pain ful, a good tactic is to wait a week till a good pus pocket forms around it.
Then you go mining and cut down to the pus pocket and it ought to come right on out because the pocket will rob it of the friction that it has now.

You also might want to visit a thread that was on about the same topic by Death Metal Moe.

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[sr71blackbird]

I wonder how many of us use the same "home surgery" techniques? Like with the burning of the needle to sterilize it. I use a tweezer like this called a Sliver Gripperhttp://www.slivergripper.ca/gripper.gif that you keep on your keychain. It has needlepoint precision and the tips are micro groved. Those drawing salves only really work on blisters and I dont think itd help "pull" something out. I had an aunt that was using a brillo pad once and got a metal splinter from it in her index finger and she kind of ignored it a while and it got badly infected (from rust) and they had to cut the tip of her finger off just below her nail.

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[JustJon]

Stay out da bushes!

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