ANSWERS: 9
  • I take it out using a tweesres
  • Tweezers or a needle for the deeper ones. Treat with peroxide or alcohol after to prevent infection, which can happen sometimes if you leave it in. I used to work in a furniture factory many years ago and got splinters daily.
  • If at all possible I'll take them out with tweezers. If they can't be removed with those, then I'll use a safety pin or needle to try and get to them, provided that I'm only digging through callas or dead skin (wuss I am). Yipes, I have a major splinter horror story from back when I was in high school. I was in Raiders practice [Note: Raiders is a varsity, JROTC based, program, with tournaments that are sort of like a weekend boot camp training. Hardcore obstacle courses with 180 pound stretchers, mountain foot-races, the like.], and I found myself with about an inch of paper-thin wood lodged under the pad of my finger. I had a Raider competition the next day, and needed full use of my hands; the splinter was entirely under the skin, and in the most sensitive spot on the body, so I couldn't dig it out without causing massive pain, but I couldn't leave it in because of the pain it was causing my hand. So I went to the hospital thinking that they could just put a local on it and get it right out... Big no-no. Because of the location, they couldn't stick me with the local without....I dunno, some bad thing or another happening, and because the splinter was so thin, the whole inch had to be dug out, creating an inch-long trench in my index finger. The nurse used one of those gy-normous hypodermic needles that look like those slurpy straws with the spoon on the end, took him about ten minutes of careful digging (read: random stabbing). Gosh, I still don't think I've experienced a worse stabbing pain than then. The guy shredded my finger to get to the thing, and it was DEEP too. Still got the scar all these years later, and a good bit of the finger-pad has no feeling in it.
  • Just squeeze it out through the skin or from the part that is still outside the skin. I remember when I was a kid, my dad would use a sewing needle and heat it over the stove to remove it
  • I use the poke, pick, and gnaw method to get it out. No real strategy, but I can't leave it alone no matter how hard I try. If my mom is on hand, I go to her for help! :D
  • A sterilized needle and tweezers .
  • Sterilised needle and alot of hopping around going "Ow Ow Ow" seems to work, not just for me but the kids do it too.
  • +4 to u it annoys me and it will be removed quickly. i must admit i had to take a 2nd look @ your question.at first i thought it said sphincter,and my mind filled of many obnoxious,obscene and humorous answers..
  • I always take it out. I use either tweezers, baby scissors, or a needle (all serilized and cleaned well) to push or cut the splinter out.

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