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Step 1
Try to "milk" out the splinter by gently squeezing your fingertips on each side of it. If this doesn't work, try the following steps.
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Step 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.
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Step 3
Clean a needle, a pair of tweezers and a small pair of nail clippers with isopropyl alcohol and let it air-dry. Be sure to swab the pinching surfaces of the tweezers and the cutting edges of the nail clippers.
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Step 4
Use soap and water, or antiseptic solution, to wash the skin where the splinter has lodged itself.
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Step 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.
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Step 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.
Comments
lydiamarie said
on 12/11/2009 You can get splinter out with baking soda! try this:
/www.life123.com/health/first-aid/wounds/how-to-remove-splinters-using-baking-soda.shtml
kynelson said
on 11/27/2009 This sounds really odd, but I learned from my grandfather to tape a piece of bacon (the fatter, the better) over a splinter, and it would be out by the next morning. This not only works on wood splinters, but metal and glass, even a piece of glass that had been in my finger for months! I could never find the glass, but it would occasionally hurt considerably. I tried the bacon months later (possibly over a year) and the glass was on the bacon the following morning. Strangely, there was no hole or wound where the glass came out of my finger.
jenniehelps said
on 7/28/2009 If you aren't sure you have a splinter in your finger close and press your fingers together(no cracks) and shine a flashlight on the botton and if there is a splinter you will easily see it!
vin435 said
on 7/20/2009 I had a wood splinter in my thumb and i got a piece out then it took me a day to fish a another piece of wood deeper. I picked at it and removed it. Glad thats over. Very informative and professional. good work. :)
Lily2515 said
on 1/4/2009 I got a really bad splinter from a piece of glass and it is already sealed. I don't know what to do to get it out. It really hurts but I do not want to go to a doctor. How can I get it out?