How can I get a splinter out?

Question

I have a splinter in the back of my heel and I can't seem to get it to come to the serface to pull it out. It has been there for about a week and a half. Soaking ang squeezing don't seem to help neither does picking with a pin.

Answer 1

Steps:
1. Try to 'milk' out the splinter by gently squeezing your fingertips over or on each side of it. If this doesn't work, try the following steps.

2. If you're worried about causing pain, rub the splinter site with a numbing teething gel or ice before removing the splinter. Keep in mind, however, that chilling the area may cause the splinter to retract from the top of the skin and may make its removal more challenging.

3. Clean a needle, a pair of tweezers and a small pair of nail clippers with isopropyl alcohol or Betadine solution and let it air-dry. Be sure to swab the pinching surfaces of the tweezers and the cutting edges of the nail clippers.

4. Use soap and water, or Betadine, to wash the skin where the splinter has lodged.

5. With the tip of the needle, make a small hole in the skin above the splinter. Once you have access to the splinter, gently try to squeeze it through the hole. If necessary, increase the size of the hole with the needle. Use your tweezers to pull out the splinter as soon as you can get hold of it.

6. If you're not able to open a path for the splinter with the needle, use the nail clippers very carefully to cut away the skin above the splinter.

Tips:
Soak the infected area in warm water to soften the skin if you have trouble getting access to the splinter.

Most splinters eventually work themselves out on their own.

To make a child more comfortable, rub the splinter site with a numbing teething gel or ice before removing splinter. Chilling the area will cause the splinter to retract from the top of the skin, however, and may make splinter removal more challenging.

If you're having difficulty removing the splinter and it's taking you more than a few minutes, wipe the site again with betadine to continually resterilize the site.

Warnings:
Do not dig at a splinter for longer than 10 minutes. If you've been unable to remove the splinter within that amount of time, see your doctor. Too much poking and prodding will lead to tissue damage.

Be sure you are current on your tetanus vaccine. If a splinter comes in contact with dirt or animal dung before it punctures your skin, it could potentially be carrying the tetanus bacteria.

Answer 2

If it's poking out then just a pair of tweezers should do. If not and it has broken off at then end I always use a sewing pin, run it from the bottom to the top of the splinter, you will break the skin but it will heal. If it's glass that you have in you it's pretty hard to find and even the doctors/hospital won't be able to see it with the machines they have.

Answer 3

cover the area with elmer's white school glue than apply a bandaid - the glue will prevent germs and when you take the bandaid off it should pull the splinter out - if this does not work call a doctor and next time try this method as soon as you get the splinter

Answer 4

You can get some drawing cream from the pharmacy and apply it to the area affected..then cover with a band aid of some sort , by the ,morning it should be gone.
But, if you have signs of infection: 1) Redness 2)Swelling 3) increased pain and 3) a temperature/fever...go to the hospital...it is too important to let go..OK!!

Answer 5

Getting A Splinter To Surface

Answer 6

well soak ur foot andt then pull it out or take fire and heat up the tweasers and stick it on ur heal and press down and then pull the splinter out i did

Answer 7

u'll have a cello tape at home.cut a small piece and fix it on that part where u have a splinter and remove it with a jurk.it'll help

Answer 8

soak longer and then get a twizers and pull it out

Answer 9

try placing adhesive tape over spot ....
it sometimes helps draw splinter to surface

Answer 10

Dig it out better with a needle...then pull it out with tweezers