Splinters are fragments of wood that can puncture and get stuck in your skin. They are common, but painful. In many cases, you can safely remove a splinter yourself at home. If the injury becomes ...

Often, a person can remove a splinter at home using tweezers or duct tape. Applying some substances, such as Epsom salts or honey, may also help. Splinters are small fragments of material that become ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Splinters are everyday injuries commonly involving a small shard of wood, glass, metal, plastic or a thorn that becomes embedded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California ER doctor Joe Whittington recommends using a clean, unused medicine syringe to create a suction to easily remove a ...

Baking soda may draw out deeply embedded splinters by increasing osmotic pressure, causing the skin to swell and push the splinter to the surface. A splinter is a sliver of foreign material that gets ...

Routine procedures such as splinter removal and wart treatment are increasingly billed as surgeries, leading to unexpected costs for patients. When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son ...

So how do you use a potato to remove a splinter? Here are the instructions from the Farmers’ Almanac: “Cut a potato into thin slices. Place one slice on the splinter (use the side without the skin).

August 18, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you've got a bunch of small stubborn splinters that are evading your attempts with the tweezer, the Parent ...