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How does one remove a splinter that appears entirely submerged by trnaslucent skin?

(I've been rearranging the furniture, and/or trying to make the broken stuff as convincingly not broken as the last person very cunningly left it re: broken shelves and turning the bookshelves upsidedown to hide the cracks)

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

hold skin under water until it's about to go pruney, use a pointy thing that's been cleaned PROPERLY and THOROUGHLY. or just use a stick.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

soak your finger (or whatever other part of your anatomy the splinter is in) in warm water until the skin goes all prune-like then try to get the splinter out with a tweezers. alternatively just leave it be and it will work itself out in time. if you're worried about infection put some anti-septic on it.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

you can sometimes work em back out along the line they rode in on, and then use tweezers, if you have tweezers

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

just rip the fucker out with your teeth.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Get the rest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to coax out that radical rat.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Cut the end of the affected finger off. Cover with a plaster.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

If you are not a fraidy cat you can use a needle (obv properly sterilised etc.) Using a stick would be daft as you might end up wit a bigger splinter than you had in the first place.

My brother once got a MASSIVE splinter in his arse from the wood chip so called safety flooring at Willen Lake playground and we had to take him to Milton Keynes hospital casualty as my mum couldn't get it out. Ha ha.

― Emma, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael sounds like a man with a plan.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Hot water, patience, immunity to pain and a newly discovered penchant for self mutilation finally extracted the things. Thanks ILE. Now I've also gained a massive and quite glorious papercut from perusing the Argos catalogue.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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