What is the best way to get a splinter out of your hand?

Question

My daughter has a splinter in the ball of her hand and I am struggling to get it out. does anybody have suggestions to make it easier. I have been trying with a sterile pin but no luck

Answer 1

In the Uk you can go to a chemist and buy Magnesium Sulphate Paste. It is a white paste in a small pot, you only need a little on a dressing or elastoplast. Put it in covering the splinter and leave it. It will suck out the splinter as well as drawing out any infection in there from you poking around. The same stuff is useful for any minor cut that gets infected. Keep it in your medicine cabinet, it lasts for years.

Answer 2

Magnesium Sulphate Paste Splinters

Answer 3

If its just a little redness right around the splinter, its probably just irritation. The only way to remove it, is try tweezers and see if you can grab the end of it and pull it out. If you can't, it should slowly work its way out until you can remove it. If the redness is over a large area, feels warm to the touch (like a fever in one spot) or if you see any discharge from the spot, then it's infected and you'll need to see a doc. In the meantime, be sure to keep it clean and dry - maybe pour some hydrogen peroxide over the area a couple of times a day.

Answer 4

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What is the best way to get a splinter out of your hand?
My daughter has a splinter in the ball of her hand and I am struggling to get it out. does anybody have suggestions to make it easier. I have been trying with a sterile pin but no luck

Answer 5

The single best way to remove splinters is to use a sterile injection needle.
However if the splinter is below the skin and not easy to get out cover it with anti septic cream and leave it along. Over time the splinter will be forced out by the body.

Answer 6

Unless there is blood apparent, don't worry. There is little chance of infection. If a modeling knife of something of that nature is not handy, try enlarging the arr ea with the needle. If this is not effective, or it causes the child pain desist. If it is in no way serious, you may submerge the hand in water, as this may help to force the splinter out.
If all else fails, I am sure you must have a medical advice service in your area. Look in the blue section of the phone book. I wish you the best.

Answer 7

If you can't get it with a pin and tweezers then what my dad use to do was when i'd get ready to go to sleep he would put a small piece of bacon fat on the splinter area and the grease would soften the skin and the grease would pull the splinter out, once in a while he would have to help it out but it made it so much easier and less painful and scary for me.

Answer 8

Try breaking the top layer of skin around it with the pin, after that get some tweezers and pick it out. To ease the pain apply orajel on the splinter for temporary relief.

Answer 9

The best thing to do if its too difficult to get out with good sharp tweezers, is to just keep it clean and leave it in, the body will eventually push it out. If it is a rather large or very uncomfortable a doctor will take it out for you. The most important thing is not to prod and poke for too long as you may cause tissue damage.

If this happens again you bathe the hand in warm water first, use something numbing if its particularly painful (a bit of bonjela) and then squeeze around it with your fingers to milk it out, if that doesn't work use tweezers.

Answer 10

You are probably trying to us the pin to dig it out. Don't . Only us the pin to gain access to the top of the splinter. Then use a fine ended, blunt tipped tweaser to remove the spinter.