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5 Easiest Ways to Remove a Splinter in a Child. We have been blessed with a child who, at 2 years old, normally listens, who will reason with you. when she wants to do something you said no to and who is pretty sturdy. She once kicked a bump on the floor, and said ouch, but moved on and kept on talking and walking, until I realized that her nail had broken backwards. and there was blood all over the floor. Yeap, that kind of sturdy. So you can imagine what I expected when she got a splinter on the bottom of her foot. and came to me saying “mama, my foot hurts”. I thought “I totally got this”. I pride myself in being able to get splinters from little ones, teens and adults before they even noticing I’m done, so how hard could it be. This splinter has taught me once again that children are amazing beings with mysterious trigger points, and I have been humbled dealing with this one. It all started well enough. The splinter was very thick and deep under her skin with no protruding parts. I told her what I was going to do, she agreed, I got some tweezers and some peroxide and went to work. Within 3 minutes, this child of mine was screaming as if I were performing major surgery in her without anesthesia. She would kick, scream, say I don’t want it out anymore and then kick some more. I swear, that couldn’t possibly have hurt more than some mild discomfort, since I had barely touched her foot when it began. I started psychoanalyzing it and started blaming it on all the times they pricked her foot after she was born for blood tests for some stupidly mild jaundice. I had to blame someone for the over the top reaction, and blaming the fact that she is 2 years old wasn’t good enough so hospital trauma would have to do! After 3 failed attempts, and a child who seemed happier limping around the house than letting me take the splinter out, I hit mom groups and sites and started asking for advice.. Some people suggested drawing salve or Ichthammol ointment, but honestly, who has that handy. Others told me to cut the skin with a razor blade. Seriously. While my child is kicking. And some suggested I just wait it out, and that it would come out on its own. Not a bad advice, but the fact that it makes it hard for her to walk and that I will be worried about infection kind of ruled that our for us for this particular case. Had it not been right on the bottom of her foot I might have considered that one.. Below are the 5 best and least traumatic ways to remove a splinter in a complaining child: 1. Baking Soda. Several moms swear by this one. Make a paste with baking soda and water and apply to the splinter area. Cover with a band-aid and leave for about 30 minutes and take the band-aid off. The splinter should be out or protruding much more, making it easy to pull it out.. 2. Glue or Tape. Pour Elmer’s glue ( or some other non toxic, fast drying glue) on the splinter. wait for it to dry out and pull the glue off. The glue penetrated the hole and sticks to the spli
This removal TRICK apply to ANYWHERE that you can ” SQUEEZE ” and SMALL + TINY SPLINTERS that is really HARD TO GET IT OUT. You can remove the splinter with EASE + LESS Painful STUBBORN. From: Wood + Thorn + Metal + Slivers + Etc…. NOTE: During the Hot + Cold Water period. The SMALL + TINY SPLINTER(s) will ” RISE “. This will give you a chance to ” Pull or Tweezer ” it out. If unsuccessful, once the pain go away, you can try to squeeze it out ” Pull or Tweezer ” it out. That is why we are using Hot + Cold Water Method. Not only help it to get it out, it will ease the pain as well.. This is GREAT FOR KIDS who are afraid of pain, etc… Also, it is an EASY way to clean out the infections or prevent infection using the HOT + COLD WATER METHOD. Not only you can apply this to ” Splinter “, but you can use this method for: Finger, Knee, Blown Up Fingers, Wrist, Sprain Ankle Other Body Parts too! Heal: Cut Bruise, Purple Bruises, Infection, Blown Up Finger Infection, Wrist, Sprained Ankle, Etc… SEE LINK IN VIDEO. HOT WATER WARNING NOTE: If you are using it on kids or even adults…. TEST the Water first… Make sure the Water is WARM / HOT… But NOT HOT since they are less likely to know the differences! If you find this Video, give this a try before trying to remove with ” Needle or Tweezers “. Those are the ” LAST RESORT ” methods or use it as an ” ASSIST ” after using the HOT + COLD WATER METHOD. YES, I’ve used this method plenty of times and also it will help with NOT getting infections! -- Medical Disclaimer:. The information on this Video is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on my Channel or available in this Video is for general information / entertainment purposes only. I makes no representation and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained on or available through in this Video or my Channel, and such information is subject to change without notice. You are encouraged to confirm any information obtained from or through in this Video with other sources, and review all information regarding any medical condition or treatment with your physician. NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE HEARD ON MY CHANNEL OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS CHANNEL. I do not recommend, endorse or make any representation about the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any specific tests, products, procedures, treatments, services, opinions, health care providers or other information that may be contained on or available through this Channel. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS VIDEO / CHANNEL.. My Channel Disclaimer:. These Video(s) on my Channel is mainly for entertainment purposes only and due to factors beyond of my control, I cannot guarantee against unauthorized modifications of this information, or improper use of this information. I assumes no liability for any property or personal damage that may arise from doing a Repair or your DIY Projects or Vehicle after watching any of my DIY or Repair Video’s. No information contained in this video shall create any express or implied warranty or guarantee of any particular result. NOTE: Any injury, damage or loss that may result from improper use of tools, equipment’s, or the information contained in this Channel / Video is the sole responsibility of the User / Users.. 1DO NOT COPY WHOLE or PARTS OF THE VIDEO. 2DO NOT POST THE VIDEO WITHOUT PERMISSIONS. 3THIS IS A COPYRIGHT VIDEO.. 😀
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Everyone has been there. No sooner did you or your child touch that old wooden bench when a small sliver of wood slides into the skin – causing a surprising amount of pain. Fortunately, splinters are easy to remove with the proper tools and technique.. To remove a splinter, dermatologists recommend following these tips. Learn more: https://www.aad.org/public/skin-hair-nails/injured-skin/splinters
Prevent infection. If you are successful in removing the splinter, wash the affected area with soap, put some antibiotic ointment or Vaseline over it, and cover it with a bandage. Don’t panic. Use tweezers, cleaned with soap and water, alcohol or peroxide. If the splinter is buried deep, cover the area with a hydrogen peroxide–soaked cotton ball or tissue.
This may force the splinter to come to the surface, and it helps clean the wound. Below are the 5 best and least traumatic ways to remove a splinter in a complaining child: 1 – Baking Soda Several moms swear by this one. Make a paste with baking soda and water and apply to the splinter area. Cover with a band-aid and leave for about 30 minutes and take the band-aid off. The splinter should be out or protruding much more.
Splinters occur when a small, thin fragment of wood or other material punctures the skin and becomes embedded. In most cases, it will be possible to remove the splinter at home. Baking Soda While it is a lengthy process, Mom Junction suggests a water and baking soda soak to remove the offending splinter.
The area will need to be soaked over a few days, but the baking soda has properties in it that will draw the splinter out on its own. Simply grasp the splinter with the tweezers, and gently pull it out. Wash the site where the splinter was embedded, using warm water and soap, to remove any dirt or bacteria dislodged with the splinter. Apply an over-the-counter antibiotic ointment to the splinter site.
How to Stop Splinters from Hurting? The easiest way to stop a splinter from hurting is to numb the area with ice immediately. Along with numbing the pain, it also distracts your child from the pain as you work to remove the splinter from the skin.
Once removed, wash the area clean, apply an antibacterial cream and cover it with a bandage. Reassure your child as best you can. If possible, seat him on your lap while you work on the splinter, or have another adult hold and comfort him while you remove it. If the splinter’s sticking out from the skin far enough, you may be able to pull it out easily using just the tweezer.
Climbing on wooden playground equipment and running barefoot on a deck are surefire ways of getting a splinter. Many parents try to remove splinters at home with no success, sometimes pushing them further down. If you think you can grab the splinter easily, go ahead and try, but if it looks difficult, go to a doctor as soon as possible.
The longer you wait, the harder it will be to remove. In general, splinters should be removed. Splinters aren’t usually serious, but the sooner you tell someone, the sooner he or she can remove the splinter.
Try not to touch or pull on the splinter because you could end up breaking off part of it and making it harder to get out.
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If sliding doesn’t work, place two clamps on the cord and cut it before removing it from the child’s neck.
If the child is exposed to latex, remove the irritating substance and cleanse the area
from Maternity and Pediatric Nursing by Susan Scott Ricci, Terri Kyle Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009
Depending on the child’s age, the child or parents need to learn stump care, including careful washing with soap and water every day and checking for skin irritation, breakdown, or infection.
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I have a splinter of wood stuck in my foot and I gotta go to the hospital tomorrow and I can’t walk so I’m petrified they might have to like cut into my foot bc it’s literally under my skin so yeah
This is a scam. Get it out by scraping the skin around with a sewing needle make sure to sterilize the needle and wound. Scrap the skin to the point at when the head of the splinter is visible. Then take it out with a hair plucker. Then again treat the wound with spirit and apply bandages.
Thank u so much sir I have liked and it did help loosen it up and my mum pulled it out! If ur having a splinter you’d know how much it hurts pulling slowly carefully,but I recommend get ur mum or do it ur self and pull it out. It might be hard at first and seem scary, but after you’ve done it, it doesn’t hurt or anything! And the water method helps loosen it up a little, especially the hot water! I think the cold water puts pressure on it for it to fall out by its self. Unluckily I got a hard splinter it was a hard metal splinter but it’s getting out time by time. This took one hour to write and i really hope this helps! If the creator notices me please pin this for people to see! I am subscribing right now!
I lighting touched a peice of wood and I have this stupid splinter on my finger. It hurts like crazy I got a peice out but jeez it hurts like crazy ����
For a small deep splinter use a nail cutter it may take a few attempts tho but eventually it will work (took me around 20 to 30min but it was worth it)
i walked barefoot on a beach and my foot started hurtingto i looked at it and their was a thorn in my foot i sqeezed my foot and it came out easily a few minutes ago my dad put in a new chandelier and i was walking barefoot (bad idea) and got a really tiny and painfull thorn so i went upstairs to my bathroom and took a pair of tweezers put cold water on my heel aroud the thorn sqeezed my skin which made me not feel a thing and slowly took it out
Mind in the palm of my hand and I use sellotapeI put sellotape across it and then pulled it slowly and then it called the skin forward and I’ve got my nail behind it and I just pulled out sellotape is my trick
This video doesn’t answer the question, “What happens to the foreign object/splinter if you didn’t take it out?” though…. Nice to know which is more harmful but will our body be able to get rid of the splinter eventually or is it just gonna be contained there for eternity?
Bruh none of these worked the only thing that worked was using my pocket knife and cuttin’ skin but honestly its the best way and doesnt hurt too bad lol
Oh, so this is how you do it. My glass splinter pretty small, the tweezer kept breaking the glass piece so I grabbed a nail cutter and cut it along with the skin. Problem solved.
one of the few SciFi videos that didn’t answer the question posed in the title, what does happen? Does the splinter stay there forever or does your body push it out after being walled off?
I fell off a log into a pricked bush the ones with the needle like thorns that are thin and it’s deep and I can’t get it out with tweezers I don’t want to make a small cut with a knife or needle any ideas preferably with little to no pain
It didn’t work for meh…How come? What can I Do? Bc itz night rn for me and da splinter came outta no where…Plus I can’t ask no body for help cuz everyone asleep. WHAT DO I DOO???
OMG thanks so much.I managed to get the splinter out. I went out in my nearby forest amd went collecting blueberries.it had a lot of thorns and I had two.I didn’t notice it until I found out puss getting out of my finger.
So what happens when you’ve had a foreign body made up of whatever for a few days and your body kinda ‘pushes’ it out? Like a splinter that went all the way in now suddenly can be pulled out?
??? i just put cold water around it squeezed the skin around it so i didnt feel anything and also so it pops out easier and took tweezers and it popped out and i put hand gel on it
tell someone to take out the splinter for you If the splinter stucked anywhere in your arm leg it will be bleed when you get it out you feel better after you get out it ain’t gonna hurt no more
Another way is if it’s a small sliver all you need is a pin/needle and tweezers that’s it so first try the tweezers if u can’t grab it with tweezers take the pin and scape little layers of skin until you can grab it the tweezers and don’t cut it tho just scrape it with the pin and then try to grab it
Mine was pretty long and I was just about to take it out but then I ended up breaking some of it. So it is small now and dug deep. Not sure if it will work
I had a small splinter i have been fighting with all week. By this point skin had grown over top of spinter. I used a pin to break open the skin slightly and applied this method and wow, the darn thing nearly popped out on its own. Thanks for this video.
One time I got a splinter from sliding my hand across wood and I tried to remove it but it broke and half of it was under a thin layer of my skin so I got needle and stick it into the the wood went in. And I started to rip little pieces of my skin to get it out. It was the worse day.
Haha, i’m carpeneter.. I get a lot of them in my hands.. Splinter like in video is so easy to remove.. Usualy i have splinters so deep that i have to take paper knife and cut open my fingers and cut out that splinter with tiny pieces of skin.. Painful sh*t..
i had a splinter removed by my doctor because it went way too deep to get it out by just using tweezers. The anesthesia was worse!:D But I´m glad it`s removed.:) will try this technique though next time. Tnx for this tip!
Soon as I saw AAD, I knew it was going to be completely liability free bullshit info. Any arm of the AMA would NEVER suggest placing a banana peel on your splinter for 24 hours or painting it with baking soda…but those are effective measures. Such a shame the lawyers of the world ruined it for us all.
I’m waiting still to see a podiatrist. I’ve been in terrible pain for over a month now. I see what looks like a puncture wound, and I seem to recall a stick flying up and going into my heel when I was wearing flip flops. I’ve had tons of swelling, around the outside of my ankle, but I’m not sure if maybe the ankle is sprained as well. I cannot bare any kind of weight what so ever on my foot, and it feels like something sharp constantly in the bottom of my foot. Finally after the whole foot swelling for about three and half weeks, the swelling has gone down except around the ankle, or if I have to be up too long. The worse pain is like so deep up inside my heel, where the puncture mark is, the inside area of the ankle and in the arch of my foot. I have tried soaking it in epsome salts, to make anything come out on it’s own, but no luck so far. I’m miserable with pain, even if the whole foot doesn’t swell twice it’s size like it had been for the past three and a half weeks. The biggest hold up has been the gov insurance, and doctor’s offices not communicating all on the same page. The x ray showed no broken bones, but I heard if something like wood is up in your foot, it may not show? All I know is I’m suffering every single day with terrible relentless pain in whole back half of my foot. ��
wow, that is the best doc you have for video? I work with hundreds, surely, there is one whom is happy on camera! good video BUT you need to show for splinters that are lodged deeper and do not require the ER. just a thought……..thanks!!!
That’s how we remove them too but my daughter screams to the high heavens because I have to use a needle. she admits it doesn’t hurt but just doesn’t like using a needle. I could be wrong but it looked like he had another splinter on his hand where his fingers connect to his palm.
What do I do with a super small and thing GLASS splinter? I know that I am really late,but it got so far into my skin that I almost cannot see it but I can feel it,I am trying a lot of things. I tried a lot of tutorials,but since a glass splinter they are usually very thin,please answer,if this will go any longer the splinter will just get under skin into my body. I know this might sound disgusting or unbelievable,but a splinter CAN go inside your body..As long as I can feel it I know it’s there. I know,not a lot of people get to deal tiny and super thin splinters.. And can I do the same thing you did in the tutorial but on a GLASS splinter? I am just so scared.. And sorry if I sound dramatic..
I have had a splinter in int he plcce where the lips meet for like 2 days and i think my parents are not at all concerned…looks like I’ll be going to the doctor’s all alone
My splinter was caused because of my own room door and it’s literally an inch away from getting out but I’m afraid to pull it of with my other fingers plus doing the duct tape method is making it more painful to pull out so I’m stuck with the sticky part of a bandaid until it somehow gets out
Well I once had a splinter and I didn’t tell anybody that I had one because I was young and hated those things that pick it out after a couple weeks nothing happend so idk it was tiny so that’s prob why it just went away
I once got a nice sized splinter stuck deep in my foot after helping dad with yard work. It was still fairly small so I didn’t really feel it until some time later when I got small sharp stings whenever I put my foot down. My mom and dad took a good look at it and said it needed to be dug out because it was so deep. The only problem was they use a sew in needle and burn the end of it to make it more sanitary when dogging it out. Unfortunately for me I had crippling fear of needles so it involved me freaking out more over the needle than the damn splinter lol. But just the other day was doing some chores around the house including some yard work and I got a thorn shard stuck deep in my hand, I got it from pulling some mean weeds, and once more I had to dig the damn thing out. But I was much more mellow regarding needles by then I still don’t like them but the pain from that thorn was more painful and unbearable than the needle fear. So I sucked it up and dig it out all on my own even my folks were impressed that I didn’t need their help compared to like 15+ years ago when deep splinters were common for me since we lived in a a house that was in a massive field. Now I’m not sure what’s worse the pain from the splinter or the pain and tenderness that comes after digging the damn things out Lol
I don’t know how to do that with my feet. I have 3-4 really tiny (I can’t see it because it so tiny) splitters and it hurt so much. How can you do it with feet?
I need tips I got A SUPER SMALL peace of glass in my foot and well…its really deep and super small well I think but well im you and kind of kept on walking on it and its well I think is SUPER DEEP I need help:(
Lol only reason I put time stamp is bcs you take so long to explain something which you could explain a lot faster… Anyway it’s still a good video thanks for making as its helpful ��
Some one pleaseeee help, it’s VERY small, It’s like someone drew a line on my toe, I can’t figure out where’s its in my skin, I don’t know where to pull it from!!!
Step 1: be a man and just pull it out cry scream do whatever. It’s your house Step 2: if you a girl and you don’t wanna cry and ruin your makeup. Remove that shit. AND GO ON AND DO IT
Damn i have no idea what to do. I have a tiny tiny tiny splinter on my finger like not lying 1/10 of a mm in width. I have excellent vision and cant see it until 30cm away. The tweezers arent precise enough to get them out
I left a splinter that i cannot removd, the tissue close it, levaimg him inside mi hand, 1 week later the splinter move up just beside dermis and epidermis, so y cut the dead cells protecction (it was withe and easy to cut with just taking it) and y pull out the splinter
I should have watched this, before I took a splinter out of my foot with stupid eyebrow nippers… I’m a fucking surgeon, I bet I can beat my brother… (He’s one)
I have a wood splinter in my right index finger, the splinter broke into 2 when I tried to remove it, the problem is that 1 segment was under my skin so decided to leave it. A month later, skin grew around it and whenever I press it, it hurts.
Yeah I had skin grow over one in my foot and it made walking horrific. It gotten infected and swollen up. My dad dug it out with a knife, hurt like hell but the instant relief after was so worth it
I work at the metal factory and while working I got a very tiny sharp metal splinter and it got too deep into the skin but it is visible and I have no idea how to get it out… I’ve tried tweezers too
Mine is like tiny but horizontally embedded into the skin, I can’t even see the direction it entered or an end sticking out ): I guess it’ll push itself out eventually
I just drenched the tweezers in rubbing alcohol for mine and pulled it out while wearing a jeweler’s loupe. The splinter was a microscopic 10 mm piece of glass that deeply lodged itself near the crease where the finger bends. I feel like a surgeon now.
When my son was 6, he wanted boots. So I got him boots and he came home from school with a fresh blister on his heel. I put a bandaid on it to protect it from more friction while it healed. It did not heal. Almost two weeks later and after checking often in it, I was starting to worry it was infected. It was red and swollen, very unusual for almost 2 weeks on. It had pus in the blister that had formed. So I soaked his heel in warm water and Epsom salts on and off for two days and eventually I decided I needed to take him into the doctor in the morning. After soaking more, I looked at his wound with a flashlight and noticed a black spot. Was it a rock? That would keep it from healing… So I squeezed his heel and out slid a one and a half inch STICK (I wish I was exaggerating). My skin crawled as it slid out and onto my hand. I took a picture, couldn’t believe it. By the morning, his heel had finally scabbed over. Now he has a crater-shaped scar on his heel.
Except that the wrong piece of glass under the skin will continue to cause abrasions as it moves around. It makes it very hard for the body to heal the wound.
I have a thorn on my foot thats prob less than half the size of the splinter u had. Idk if it hurts more, but it hurts rlly bad. Its craaazy hard to get it out and hard to see to begin with.
I got a splinter but plastic What i did to get it out was i went to the bathroom then i turn the water all the way on and then put it at the spot it is amd i did it lots od times and it got out
I have a wooden splitter that i can’t get out and none of the ends are stickning out. I can kind of see it but it is really deep. I tried with a needle but i startet to bleed and I didn’t even come close to it. I dunno what to do��
Had a metal splinter in my foot for years and it never got infected. I thought it was a planters wart and kept treating it like a wart for years. It finally just came closer to the surface and I removed it.
My splinter just got off with ingredients: Needle for thread Anbesol
Step 1 take the anbesol cream and apply to splinter Step 3 take thread needle Step 4 try to go under the splinter ( it won’t hurt:) FROM EXPERIENCE) Step 5 enjoy a splinter free finger or hand of leg or head or back:3
I got a splinter under my foot, pretty much tried everything couldn’t get it out. Ended up using baking soda and water into a paste. Actually came out the next day lol.
Thank you so very much….extremely detailed and Helpful! Greatly appreciated, God Bless you, this truly saved me soooo much trial and error ahead of time. I’m so glad I found it before I reacted with my crying 8yr old going through the same thing in the same spot! God works in mysterious ways! Take care and thanks again for taking the time out to upload this.
I put my flash light directly under my ring finger and you can see a black line it’s literally microscopical I didn’t touch wood I was playing with some stone and throwing it onto more stone which was stupid I didn’t get hurt but I felt a extremely sharp pain in my finger and idk how I got it because it’s not the typical wood splinter is it possible to have a stone splinter?
Does that his work if the splinter is already under the skin? I have a splinter in my palm and I tried a needle but I can’t take it out. The splinter has been stuck in my palm for around a month
I’ve had a small wooden splinter in my thigh for 7 years and I never got it out, there’s no infection or pain, honestly I don’t even know where it is anymore cause I can’t see it…
Had a 15 mm long and quite thick splinter in my foot and was not able to get grip on it. Applied baking soda and left it on for about 15 hrs. After removing the band aid i just carefully pulled the skin around it apart and it popped out enough that i could get a grip with tweezers. It came out absolutely smooth and pain free. What a relieve!!! Thanks for suggesting this.
It’s a splinter. You can get it out in minutes with a couple items OR you can wait DAYS using several different items that each require additional processing & waste…. not to mention the extra time spent with it in contact with the area the splinter is in.
Good luck either way. This seems ridiculous considering getting a splinter isn’t a big deal 9 out of 10 times. For the instances that are a bigger problem, like a splinter underneath a nail (or really big/deep splinter) this isn’t going to work anyway!!! Not to mention they are usually on a hand/foot that will only hurt longer with this method…. never mind. If you didn’t understand these things after watching it, I doubt the logical points will convince you otherwise. Silly me.
If the “Splinter” is fresh, there’s an easy method/trick to get it out easily. You have to try the Hot/Cold Water method and it will open it up. Once that does, you can easily squeeze it out or even tweezer-it out. In case anyone wants to know how and see this message, I have a video in my channel showing you how.
I remember that when I was working in a metal factory to make parts for a robotic competetion, I grabbed a handle which had a metal shaving stick on it. So it was pressed in my hand. It is a huge releave to me after watching this video. I can still see it under my skin.
Am I doing something wrong?? There’s a very small piece of glass in my foot since yesterday and I’m trying to do the method but it won’t work. Am I supposed to run the water over the glass in my foot?
A cat attacked me and I think some of it’s claw broke inside because I pulled it away out of panic and his claw stayed inside and pulled my skin a LOT before letting go… I used a needle to remove some dead skin and a little but of transparent stuff came out
Buck thorn pickers are very small and if you look at one with a microscope they have scales…like a porcupine quill…I think they also are toxic….they just keep going deeper if not removed..I have had one in the back of my hand for over forty years…some day I will cut it out and see what it looks like.
My dad crushed his heal & ankle. Had 11 surgeries. One time, after healing from a surgery, he could feel a stitch sticking out of his ankle; one that didn’t dissolve. He told me to pull it out with tweezers. I pulled and it didn’t budge. Pulled harder and it still wouldn’t come out. I gave him the “This is gonna hurt” look and yanked that thing out. Then we realized why it was hard to pull out…it still had the knot tied in it.
Ive got one in the bend of my pointing finger and its been there over 20 years.it just now starting to swell and hurt like hell.hot alot of gunk out of it but the damn spinter is so deep i cant see but i can feel it
I was in so much pain i used needles and accidental put it almost all the way in my finger. And I picked with tweezers forever and I did it until I couldn’t feel my finger and it was about to get infected.. it was submerged under my skin.. and I tried the duct tape and it worked
cause I had a splinter stucked in that same spot what the youtube video showing when it was stucked in that spot my brother had to pull out of my hand It hurt real bad after the splinter was out but I start feeling better it was on August 1 2020 when I got that splinter
so once I was walking outside and I got a small splinter in my foot and i left it there for a few days and then my mom tried getting it with duct tape and got a part of it out but then it was so much harder cuz it got smaller so she tried tweezers and it didn’t work so she got this poker knife thing and cut open my skin and got it out. This was a little painful ngl but I’m ok now
I am so glad I am subscribed to you, I work with kids and I have to take out splinters every day and they always cry. I am for sure going to use this technique, thank you for posting this!
HP worked. Soaked a cotton ball. Held it on for a couple min. Squeezed a bit. Used cotton ball to wipe it right off. Two slivers in same finger, gone. Yay!
I have a splinter of wood stuck in my foot and I gotta go to the hospital tomorrow and I can’t walk so I’m petrified they might have to like cut into my foot bc it’s literally under my skin so yeah
This is a scam. Get it out by scraping the skin around with a sewing needle make sure to sterilize the needle and wound. Scrap the skin to the point at when the head of the splinter is visible. Then take it out with a hair plucker.
Then again treat the wound with spirit and apply bandages.
Thank u so much sir I have liked and it did help loosen it up and my mum pulled it out! If ur having a splinter you’d know how much it hurts pulling slowly carefully,but I recommend get ur mum or do it ur self and pull it out. It might be hard at first and seem scary, but after you’ve done it, it doesn’t hurt or anything! And the water method helps loosen it up a little, especially the hot water! I think the cold water puts pressure on it for it to fall out by its self. Unluckily I got a hard splinter it was a hard metal splinter but it’s getting out time by time. This took one hour to write and i really hope this helps! If the creator notices me please pin this for people to see! I am subscribing right now!
I lighting touched a peice of wood and I have this stupid splinter on my finger. It hurts like crazy I got a peice out but jeez it hurts like crazy ����
For a small deep splinter use a nail cutter it may take a few attempts tho but eventually it will work (took me around 20 to 30min but it was worth it)
The bot speaking: splinters can be QUITE painful ��
me: PAINFULL? Not painfull it’s like screaming and the feeling your about to die
That’s exactly what I do…. It works every time!! I do it to my son and even my father who loves to garden and do all kinds of rough things outdoors
i walked barefoot on a beach and my foot started hurtingto i looked at it and their was a thorn in my foot
i sqeezed my foot and it came out easily
a few minutes ago my dad put in a new chandelier and i was walking barefoot (bad idea) and got a really tiny and painfull thorn so i went upstairs to my bathroom and took a pair of tweezers put cold water on my heel aroud the thorn sqeezed my skin which made me not feel a thing and slowly took it out
My splinter is so f*cking small and so deep in my skin that it took me a whole f*ucking day to find it so I hope the tape works
(I don’t know if u realized but I’m mad right now
Mind in the palm of my hand and I use sellotapeI put sellotape across it and then pulled it slowly and then it called the skin forward and I’ve got my nail behind it and I just pulled out sellotape is my trick
This video doesn’t answer the question, “What happens to the foreign object/splinter if you didn’t take it out?” though…. Nice to know which is more harmful but will our body be able to get rid of the splinter eventually or is it just gonna be contained there for eternity?
Bruh none of these worked the only thing that worked was using my pocket knife and cuttin’ skin but honestly its the best way and doesnt hurt too bad lol
Anyone else here because they got a splinter. I am but I’m just gonna have to leave it in I have no choice its dug in pretty good.
Oh, so this is how you do it. My glass splinter pretty small, the tweezer kept breaking the glass piece so I grabbed a nail cutter and cut it along with the skin. Problem solved.
I could of done with this video a week ago to show my daughter it doesn’t hurt, 2 hours she full on screamed the house down hahaha
one of the few SciFi videos that didn’t answer the question posed in the title, what does happen? Does the splinter stay there forever or does your body push it out after being walled off?
I fell off a log into a pricked bush the ones with the needle like thorns that are thin and it’s deep and I can’t get it out with tweezers I don’t want to make a small cut with a knife or needle any ideas preferably with little to no pain
I used a nail cutter take the splinter out and it works you guys can do it if you want but it so painful my finger hurts so much��
It didn’t work for meh…How come? What can I Do? Bc itz night rn for me and da splinter came outta no where…Plus I can’t ask no body for help cuz everyone asleep. WHAT DO I DOO???
Edit: Still a rly great method tho
OMG thanks so much.I managed to get the splinter out. I went out in my nearby forest amd went collecting blueberries.it had a lot of thorns and I had two.I didn’t notice it until I found out puss getting out of my finger.
So what happens when you’ve had a foreign body made up of whatever for a few days and your body kinda ‘pushes’ it out? Like a splinter that went all the way in now suddenly can be pulled out?
??? i just put cold water around it squeezed the skin around it so i didnt feel anything and also so it pops out easier and took tweezers and it popped out and i put hand gel on it
tell someone to take out the splinter for you If the splinter stucked anywhere in your arm leg it will be bleed when you get it out you feel better after you get out it ain’t gonna hurt no more
Thank you:’) my mom put pieces of cactus in the fridge and didn’t tell anyone so I pushed it with all my might and got a thorn in my hand
Another way is if it’s a small sliver all you need is a pin/needle and tweezers that’s it so first try the tweezers if u can’t grab it with tweezers take the pin and scape little layers of skin until you can grab it the tweezers and don’t cut it tho just scrape it with the pin and then try to grab it
Mine was pretty long and I was just about to take it out but then I ended up breaking some of it. So it is small now and dug deep. Not sure if it will work
I had a small splinter i have been fighting with all week. By this point skin had grown over top of spinter. I used a pin to break open the skin slightly and applied this method and wow, the darn thing nearly popped out on its own. Thanks for this video.
One time I got a splinter from sliding my hand across wood and I tried to remove it but it broke and half of it was under a thin layer of my skin so I got needle and stick it into the the wood went in. And I started to rip little pieces of my skin to get it out. It was the worse day.
Haha, i’m carpeneter.. I get a lot of them in my hands.. Splinter like in video is so easy to remove.. Usualy i have splinters so deep that i have to take paper knife and cut open my fingers and cut out that splinter with tiny pieces of skin.. Painful sh*t..
i had a splinter removed by my doctor because it went way too deep to get it out by just using tweezers. The anesthesia was worse!:D But I´m glad it`s removed.:) will try this technique though next time. Tnx for this tip!
Soon as I saw AAD, I knew it was going to be completely liability free bullshit info. Any arm of the AMA would NEVER suggest placing a banana peel on your splinter for 24 hours or painting it with baking soda…but those are effective measures. Such a shame the lawyers of the world ruined it for us all.
This hot cold water method also works for pain. It needs at least 5 cycles of cold-hot for that. 3 minutes for hot, 30 seconds for cold.
You are so nice to share this with us! You littary saved my life. I am a kid and it hurts so much as a kid. Thanks for your awesome advice!��
I’m waiting still to see a podiatrist. I’ve been in terrible pain for over a month now. I see what looks like a puncture wound, and I seem to recall a stick flying up and going into my heel when I was wearing flip flops. I’ve had tons of swelling, around the outside of my ankle, but I’m not sure if maybe the ankle is sprained as well. I cannot bare any kind of weight what so ever on my foot, and it feels like something sharp constantly in the bottom of my foot. Finally after the whole foot swelling for about three and half weeks, the swelling has gone down except around the ankle, or if I have to be up too long. The worse pain is like so deep up inside my heel, where the puncture mark is, the inside area of the ankle and in the arch of my foot. I have tried soaking it in epsome salts, to make anything come out on it’s own, but no luck so far. I’m miserable with pain, even if the whole foot doesn’t swell twice it’s size like it had been for the past three and a half weeks. The biggest hold up has been the gov insurance, and doctor’s offices not communicating all on the same page. The x ray showed no broken bones, but I heard if something like wood is up in your foot, it may not show? All I know is I’m suffering every single day with terrible relentless pain in whole back half of my foot. ��
wow, that is the best doc you have for video? I work with hundreds, surely, there is one whom is happy on camera! good video BUT you need to show for splinters that are lodged deeper and do not require the ER. just a thought……..thanks!!!
Thank you so much. I didn’t know how to remove one especially a tiny one and it got out real quick and painless. You are amazing ��
That’s how we remove them too but my daughter screams to the high heavens because I have to use a needle. she admits it doesn’t hurt but just doesn’t like using a needle. I could be wrong but it looked like he had another splinter on his hand where his fingers connect to his palm.
What do I do with a super small and thing GLASS splinter? I know that I am really late,but it got so far into my skin that I almost cannot see it but I can feel it,I am trying a lot of things. I tried a lot of tutorials,but since a glass splinter they are usually very thin,please answer,if this will go any longer the splinter will just get under skin into my body.
I know this might sound disgusting or unbelievable,but a splinter CAN go inside your body..As long as I can feel it I know it’s there.
I know,not a lot of people get to deal tiny and super thin splinters..
And can I do the same thing you did in the tutorial but on a GLASS splinter? I am just so scared..
And sorry if I sound dramatic..
I have had a splinter in int he plcce where the lips meet for like 2 days and i think my parents are not at all concerned…looks like I’ll be going to the doctor’s all alone
Too bad we didn’t actually see the object coming out in the demo. Suggest you put that spinter back into the finger and redo the demo.:)��
My splinter was caused because of my own room door and it’s literally an inch away from getting out but I’m afraid to pull it of with my other fingers plus doing the duct tape method is making it more painful to pull out so I’m stuck with the sticky part of a bandaid until it somehow gets out
Well I once had a splinter and I didn’t tell anybody that I had one because I was young and hated those things that pick it out after a couple weeks nothing happend so idk it was tiny so that’s prob why it just went away
I once got a nice sized splinter stuck deep in my foot after helping dad with yard work. It was still fairly small so I didn’t really feel it until some time later when I got small sharp stings whenever I put my foot down. My mom and dad took a good look at it and said it needed to be dug out because it was so deep. The only problem was they use a sew in needle and burn the end of it to make it more sanitary when dogging it out. Unfortunately for me I had crippling fear of needles so it involved me freaking out more over the needle than the damn splinter lol.
But just the other day was doing some chores around the house including some yard work and I got a thorn shard stuck deep in my hand, I got it from pulling some mean weeds, and once more I had to dig the damn thing out. But I was much more mellow regarding needles by then I still don’t like them but the pain from that thorn was more painful and unbearable than the needle fear. So I sucked it up and dig it out all on my own even my folks were impressed that I didn’t need their help compared to like 15+ years ago when deep splinters were common for me since we lived in a a house that was in a massive field.
Now I’m not sure what’s worse the pain from the splinter or the pain and tenderness that comes after digging the damn things out
Lol
I don’t know how to do that with my feet. I have 3-4 really tiny (I can’t see it because it so tiny) splitters and it hurt so much. How can you do it with feet?
I need tips I got A SUPER SMALL peace of glass in my foot and well…its really deep and super small well I think but well im you and kind of kept on walking on it and its well I think is SUPER DEEP I need help:(
Lol only reason I put time stamp is bcs you take so long to explain something which you could explain a lot faster… Anyway it’s still a good video thanks for making as its helpful ��
Some one pleaseeee help, it’s VERY small,
It’s like someone drew a line on my toe, I can’t figure out where’s its in my skin, I don’t know where to pull it from!!!
Help!!
Apply dried cow penis— scratch out fine powder, mix little water and leave it overnight, n lo the splinter will be out by it self
Step 1: be a man and just pull it out cry scream do whatever. It’s your house
Step 2: if you a girl and you don’t wanna cry and ruin your makeup. Remove that shit. AND GO ON AND DO IT
Damn i have no idea what to do. I have a tiny tiny tiny splinter on my finger like not lying 1/10 of a mm in width. I have excellent vision and cant see it until 30cm away. The tweezers arent precise enough to get them out
So I left a splinter in for years. It’s still in. It’s now just a little brown spot on my thumb. So sometimes apparently it’s fine.
The problem is mine is smaller than your and it’s in my foot i cant walk without pain what if i was running from a tsunami i would of been dead
I left a splinter that i cannot removd, the tissue close it, levaimg him inside mi hand, 1 week later the splinter move up just beside dermis and epidermis, so y cut the dead cells protecction (it was withe and easy to cut with just taking it) and y pull out the splinter
I should have watched this, before I took a splinter out of my foot with
stupid eyebrow nippers… I’m a fucking surgeon, I bet I can beat my
brother… (He’s one)
I have a wood splinter in my right index finger, the splinter broke into 2 when I tried to remove it, the problem is that 1 segment was under my skin so decided to leave it.
A month later, skin grew around it and whenever I press it, it hurts.
Yeah I had skin grow over one in my foot and it made walking horrific. It gotten infected and swollen up. My dad dug it out with a knife, hurt like hell but the instant relief after was so worth it
I work at the metal factory and while working I got a very tiny sharp metal splinter and it got too deep into the skin but it is visible and I have no idea how to get it out… I’ve tried tweezers too
I’m crying so much rn it’s so deep and it isn’t a small one it’s so long it’s the size of like nearly my pinki finger but a tid smaller ����
Mine is like tiny but horizontally embedded into the skin, I can’t even see the direction it entered or an end sticking out ): I guess it’ll push itself out eventually
I just drenched the tweezers in rubbing alcohol for mine and pulled it out while wearing a jeweler’s loupe. The splinter was a microscopic 10 mm piece of glass that deeply lodged itself near the crease where the finger bends. I feel like a surgeon now.
bro mines on the palm of my foot and like its really in there not even poking a bit out um so what do i do do i just leave it there its a pain to walk
I know what happens if you don’t take out a splinter and keep it in there for long your body will be poisned then your legs and arm with be ✂ cut off
When my son was 6, he wanted boots. So I got him boots and he came home from school with a fresh blister on his heel. I put a bandaid on it to protect it from more friction while it healed. It did not heal. Almost two weeks later and after checking often in it, I was starting to worry it was infected. It was red and swollen, very unusual for almost 2 weeks on. It had pus in the blister that had formed. So I soaked his heel in warm water and Epsom salts on and off for two days and eventually I decided I needed to take him into the doctor in the morning. After soaking more, I looked at his wound with a flashlight and noticed a black spot. Was it a rock? That would keep it from healing… So I squeezed his heel and out slid a one and a half inch STICK (I wish I was exaggerating). My skin crawled as it slid out and onto my hand. I took a picture, couldn’t believe it. By the morning, his heel had finally scabbed over. Now he has a crater-shaped scar on his heel.
Except that the wrong piece of glass under the skin will continue to cause abrasions as it moves around. It makes it very hard for the body to heal the wound.
I have a thorn on my foot thats prob less than half the size of the splinter u had. Idk if it hurts more, but it hurts rlly bad. Its craaazy hard to get it out and hard to see to begin with.
I got a splinter but plastic
What i did to get it out was i went to the bathroom then i turn the water all the way on and then put it at the spot it is amd i did it lots od times and it got out
I used to walk around alot barefoot as a kid and never got sick. Its the soft city kids that get sick because they live in bubbles.
I have a glass splinter in my finger its killing me….hurts so bad its in so deep i let it heal its like under my skin idk wut to do
It’s been one month to splinter and seems it went little inside. Will baking powder technique still work? There is swelling around and pain
My splinter was so small and it was inside my skin completely. So it was impossible to get it with my own hands.Luckily the tape worked.
I have a wooden splitter that i can’t get out and none of the ends are stickning out. I can kind of see it but it is really deep. I tried with a needle but i startet to bleed and I didn’t even come close to it. I dunno what to do��
Had a metal splinter in my foot for years and it never got infected. I thought it was a planters wart and kept treating it like a wart for years. It finally just came closer to the surface and I removed it.
I have a chunk of soggy bread on my hand rn and if it doesn’t work I will be upset btw hydrogen peroxide did not, work for. Me….
My splinter just got off with ingredients:
Needle for thread
Anbesol
Step 1 take the anbesol cream and apply to splinter
Step 3 take thread needle
Step 4 try to go under the splinter ( it won’t hurt:) FROM EXPERIENCE)
Step 5 enjoy a splinter free finger or hand of leg or head or back:3
I got a splinter under my foot, pretty much tried everything couldn’t get it out. Ended up using baking soda and water into a paste. Actually came out the next day lol.
Thank you so very much….extremely detailed and Helpful! Greatly appreciated, God Bless you, this truly saved me soooo much trial and error ahead of time. I’m so glad I found it before I reacted with my crying 8yr old going through the same thing in the same spot! God works in mysterious ways! Take care and thanks again for taking the time out to upload this.
I put my flash light directly under my ring finger and you can see a black line it’s literally microscopical I didn’t touch wood I was playing with some stone and throwing it onto more stone which was stupid I didn’t get hurt but I felt a extremely sharp pain in my finger and idk how I got it because it’s not the typical wood splinter is it possible to have a stone splinter?
i have got a splinter under skin but a phobia of needles and injections none of the non tweezers related ones have worked. help me
Does that his work if the splinter is already under the skin? I have a splinter in my palm and I tried a needle but I can’t take it out. The splinter has been stuck in my palm for around a month
I’ve had a small wooden splinter in my thigh for 7 years and I never got it out, there’s no infection or pain, honestly I don’t even know where it is anymore cause I can’t see it…
Had a 15 mm long and quite thick splinter in my foot and was not able to get grip on it. Applied baking soda and left it on for about 15 hrs. After removing the band aid i just carefully pulled the skin around it apart and it popped out enough that i could get a grip with tweezers. It came out absolutely smooth and pain free. What a relieve!!! Thanks for suggesting this.
It’s a splinter.
You can get it out in minutes with a couple items
OR
you can wait DAYS using several different items that each require additional processing & waste…. not to mention the extra time spent with it in contact with the area the splinter is in.
Good luck either way. This seems ridiculous considering getting a splinter isn’t a big deal 9 out of 10 times.
For the instances that are a bigger problem, like a splinter underneath a nail (or really big/deep splinter) this isn’t going to work anyway!!!
Not to mention they are usually on a hand/foot that will only hurt longer with this method…. never mind. If you didn’t understand these things after watching it, I doubt the logical points will convince you otherwise. Silly me.
If the “Splinter” is fresh, there’s an easy method/trick to get it out easily. You have to try the Hot/Cold Water method and it will open it up. Once that does, you can easily squeeze it out or even tweezer-it out. In case anyone wants to know how and see this message, I have a video in my channel showing you how.
I remember that when I was working in a metal factory to make parts for a robotic competetion, I grabbed a handle which had a metal shaving stick on it. So it was pressed in my hand. It is a huge releave to me after watching this video. I can still see it under my skin.
Am I doing something wrong?? There’s a very small piece of glass in my foot since yesterday and I’m trying to do the method but it won’t work. Am I supposed to run the water over the glass in my foot?
I have this REALLY small piece of glass up my foot and idk how tf to get it out, people are saying the baking soda works?? But idk
A cat attacked me and I think some of it’s claw broke inside because I pulled it away out of panic and his claw stayed inside and pulled my skin a LOT before letting go…
I used a needle to remove some dead skin and a little but of transparent stuff came out
Buck thorn pickers are very small and if you look at one with a microscope they have scales…like a porcupine quill…I think they also are toxic….they just keep going deeper if not removed..I have had one in the back of my hand for over forty years…some day I will cut it out and see what it looks like.
,,Leave it overnight” i cant fuckin sleep man cause i have this fuckin splinter in my toe and you suggest me to wait for hours thank you for nothing
My dad crushed his heal & ankle. Had 11 surgeries. One time, after healing from a surgery, he could feel a stitch sticking out of his ankle; one that didn’t dissolve. He told me to pull it out with tweezers. I pulled and it didn’t budge. Pulled harder and it still wouldn’t come out. I gave him the “This is gonna hurt” look and yanked that thing out. Then we realized why it was hard to pull out…it still had the knot tied in it.
Ive got one in the bend of my pointing finger and its been there over 20 years.it just now starting to swell and hurt like hell.hot alot of gunk out of it but the damn spinter is so deep i cant see but i can feel it
I was in so much pain i used needles and accidental put it almost all the way in my finger. And I picked with tweezers forever and I did it until I couldn’t feel my finger and it was about to get infected.. it was submerged under my skin.. and I tried the duct tape and it worked
cause I had a splinter stucked in that same spot what the youtube video showing when it was stucked in that spot my brother had to pull out of my hand It hurt real bad after the splinter was out but I start feeling better it was on August 1 2020 when I got that splinter
I have a couple fossil’s in my hands. Year’s of gardening-landscaping but the biggest one I’ve had since a young kid and it doesn’t bother me at all.
so once I was walking outside and I got a small splinter in my foot and i left it there for a few days and then my mom tried getting it with duct tape and got a part of it out but then it was so much harder cuz it got smaller so she tried tweezers and it didn’t work so she got this poker knife thing and cut open my skin and got it out. This was a little painful ngl but I’m ok now
I am so glad I am subscribed to you, I work with kids and I have to take out splinters every day and they always cry. I am for sure going to use this technique, thank you for posting this!
HP worked. Soaked a cotton ball. Held it on for a couple min. Squeezed a bit. Used cotton ball to wipe it right off. Two slivers in same finger, gone. Yay!