My friends and I are discussing this, but if you get a splinter is it possible that the splinter could enter your bloodstream and find its way to your heart and kill you?
2007-08-18 13:31:56 · 11 answers · asked by Jesse B 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
yes a splinter can kill you possibly but the chances are very very very slim of it getting into your bloodstream and getting to your heart and killing you softly....it would probably find it's way out your butt or something....T-hee
2007-08-20 16:35:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the size of the splinter. Log size ones can kill you. Otherwise, infection can inter the blood stream, but first, it will create an external infection, with pus under the splinter, which will help you to push the splinter out.
2007-08-18 22:48:39 · answer #2 · answered by Robin B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could catch a flesh-eating bacteria through the wound that the splinter made...
Really, I was just talking to someone today...I haven't seen her in about six months, she was in the hospital fighting a flesh-eating bacteria. She lost most of her right leg from ankle to knee...
2007-08-18 13:41:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would have to a very large splinter which becomes infected and maybe leads to sepsis - then yes.
2007-08-18 13:37:58 · answer #4 · answered by emtd65 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
uh.....no
it would have to be one huge splinter and a bad infection combined and then it could kill a person
2007-08-18 13:36:29 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ Etheria ♥ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no it can't find its way to your heart but it could cause infection and kill you that way.
2007-08-18 13:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, but it can cause infection locally that can spread to the blood stream (sepsis) and cause death that way.
2007-08-18 13:38:13 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO the ninja turtles wouldnt let that happen
2007-08-18 13:40:18 · answer #8 · answered by bowserpci18 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i doubt it...but i can block your blood stream if it goes deep enough!!
2007-08-18 13:37:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
probably not if you remove it asap.
2007-08-18 13:49:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋