How to get rid of a splinter on your finger
How to get rid of a splinter on your finger
A splinter on the finger or under the fingernail - alwaysan unpleasant problem. Pull it out yourself is difficult, sometimes even impossible. If the suppuration has not yet occurred, then you can try to cope with the situation.
You will need
- - tweezers - needle - alcohol - hydrogen peroxide. - Synthomycin ointment. - Ointment Triderm. - salt. - Soda. - onion. - plantain leaf - fresh potatoes - marigold tincture - bandage - black bread
Instructions
1
Most often, a splinter falls under the skin of the fingers. First remove it with an alcohol-treated tweezers or push the splinter with a needle. Then treat the affected area with an antiseptic solution (alcohol, hydrogen peroxide). From antibacterial agents use ointment Triderm or shintomitsinovoy.
2
Especially unpleasant, when the splinter stuck undernail. There are several folk remedies that will help to cope with the problem. If the inflammation starts, reddening of the skin, but without suppuration, then in hot water, add a teaspoon of salt and soda, mix. Lower your finger several times in boiling water. Do this until the water is warm. Instead of soda and salt, you can add an alcohol tincture of calendula, an infusion of St. John's wort or chamomile.
3
Finely chop the onion. Treat the finger with alcohol, then gruel from onions, attach to the wound, cover the top with cellophane and bandage well. Every 3 hours, change the bandage.
4
You can also make compresses from a sheet of plantain or fresh grated potatoes.
5
Sometimes when you remove the tip of the splinter breaks,or the splinter itself can be small and thin. Then you can try to extract a splinter folk method. Take a slice of black bread and sprinkle it with salt. Dampen it with a little water and make a crumb. Piece of the attached to the affected area and press with a plaster. Leave it overnight. In the morning unwind the plaster - a splinter should come out.
