Ouch!
By Humbug25
@Humbug25 (12540)
March 30, 2009 8:39am CST
Earlier today I felt like a pricking sensation in my thumb. When I looked at it I could see that I had a small splinter in it. It was not sticking out at all so I couldn't just pull it out and I couldn't work out which way it had gone in so pushing it in the right direction was proving a bit tricky. In the end I soaked it a short while in warm water and pushed and squeezed it from every angle until I saw the tip pop out, then grabbed the tweezers and pulled it out. When I was a child my dad would sterilize a needle or pin and then dig at it until he got it out, which was very painful!
How do you remove your splinters? Do you put a bit of lint and wrap it up and hope it works it's way out or, like me, you have to get it out there and then and will do it by whatever means you can?
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10 responses
@carolluvyou (460)
• United States
31 Mar 09
In the grand scheme of things, is this really an issue that requires a thread of discussion?
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@Amber4106 (540)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Oh please don't start a discussion asking which one we prefer! I don't think that there is anything wrong with this discussion. I would much rather hear these stories than read someone say that they like the color ???? because ????? and try to make several lines out of it. It's just rambling, and atleast a person can explain and talk about past experiences with this discussion.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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31 Mar 09
Well hello carolluvyou.
Oh I see would you rather I had started a discussion asking people what their favourite colour is or if they like McDonalds or prefer Burger King? It is handy to see how others remove their splinters should they have a better way to do so.
Thank you for your response
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
30 Mar 09
i haven't had a splinter in a long time, thank hear it takes. your dad sounds like mine. i use to get so mad at mine giving me a spit bath. do u ever have one of them? lol. that was a nasty thing to do. i'd rather my face had been dirty, it usually was when we were fixing to go into church. our church wasn't but 4 blocks from our house. don't know how my face got dirty in 4 blocks. lol
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
30 Mar 09
old women have crazy minds. when u mentioned your dad is what brought the spit baths up. sorry about that. lol
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it's amazing how you can go from splinters to spit washes! LOL
@littleowl (7157)
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31 Mar 09
Hi Humbug, most times with a splinter my way is the way you do it, but I have heard that putting a plaster not the lint just the sticky part over it also draws the splinter out..maybe if there is a next time it happens it would be good to try that out, I think that is something I will try...hugs littleowl
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@Carpathian (582)
• United States
31 Mar 09
It depends on the splinter. If it is one I can pick out with tweezers then I do that. If it is one that is in real deep I use Peroxide to bubble it out and soak for awhile. Then, that loosens it us and makes it easier to get it out. So, far it works and I have never had one I could not get out yet. *Knock on wood*
**Peace and Love get's you through everything in Life**
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@sassymama1974 (178)
• United States
31 Mar 09
If I cant get it with tweezers I start digging with a needle my mom did they same to us growing up and I hate getting pieces of glass in my feet OUCH!
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Thanks for your response 
@riyasam (16556)
• India
30 Mar 09
yeah,i do get those nasty ones once in a while,i just cannot understand how the splinter got there!!!when i was younger.my mother used to use the same technique your father used.and,boy ,it was so painful!!!!her logic was,suffer the pain now then you wont have to suffer for days on end.i try using a local anaesthetic and then try to probe the splinter out.
Thanks for your response @Amber4106 (540)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Splinters are very annoying to me, and I will work at them until I get them out. I try anything that I can to get it out. It kind of reminds me when I was a kid and losing my baby teeth. If I had the slightest wiggle on one of my teeth, I would work and work at it until I got the tooth out. I guess I was too anxious to see the tooth fairy.
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@kevdiesel (129)
• Kenya
30 Mar 09
Well for me ur dads way is my option..come on lets dig it out next time it happens..lol,
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@kevdiesel (129)
• Kenya
30 Mar 09
Well for me ur dads way is my option..come on lets dig it out next time it happens..lol,
