How to remove a splinter

How to remove a splinter
 Pull the splinter home is not difficult in the event that it is stuck deep, and the tip is visible. If the splinter is very thin and small, came under the nail, or simply not visible, you should contact a qualified technician. Remember that it is not removed can lead to suppuration of the affected area of ​​the skin.
 Before proceeding to the recovery of splinters, wash your hands with soap and water and treat the wound with hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol or vodka. Disinfect tools you'll use (calcined needle, tweezers omit a few minutes in alcohol).

If a splinter entered the shallow skin and the tip is visible, grabbed him with tweezers and gently pull it out. If you can not pinch the end, try to expose it by removing a bit of skin at the beginning of the wound with a needle, and then repeat the procedure again. Pull a splinter under the same angle at which it entered the skin.

In order to get a splinter, an advanced deep into the skin, spread tar affected area and apply a bandage over it for 3-4 hours. Tar soften the skin, the end of a splinter bowels out (a small splinter could break completely), and you can easily grab it with tweezers and pull the splinter out of the skin. Try to remove a splinter deep house or in a medical facility, as otherwise a fairly high risk of entering into a wound infection.

To remove a splinter from under the nail, refer to the emergency room. Alas, get it yourself from this remote places virtually impossible.

After the splinter is removed, treat the wound with iodine, brilliant green or cologne and close up its bactericidal plaster. If the finger was amazed, be sure to put on it napalechnik to prevent germs from entering the wound. Until the wound heals, do not swim in open water and access to the sauna and baths.

Be careful if the affected area becomes red and heals within 2-3 days, be sure to consult a physician-surgeon. Perhaps the wound became infected and the inflammatory process has begun. Remember that it is not removed a splinter can not only slow down the healing process, but also to provoke the beginning of the inflammatory process.

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