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Glass Splinter

How to get off a glass splinter out of your foot.

In contradistinction to a splinter of wood, such a one can be reliably identified on ultrasound.

If, of course, corresponding history is missing!

Bathing softens the epidermis and will ease extraction.

So, after a warm bath, dry the skin, take tweezers which you apply with both extremities around the suspected penetration site.

This one can be reliably identified if splinter location is epidermal.

Apply gentle pressure around the site and wait until you see the point of the object.

Here you need understanding:

Try to imagine the object in the skin.

A splinter of glass is uneven, and you are trying to make it emerge above the surface.

So, the two extremities of your tweezers must be applied parallel to the cutting pointed edge of the splinter.

Here you will need patience.

After a moment reorient the tweezers’ extremities on both sides of the suspicious site.

You will probably need to do this several times, until you see the splinter.

Then you can seize it.

In dermal location you will need the ultrasound machine and a scalpel.