ER for a splinter? Not.

Janis, glad you and Katrina were able to remove the splinter, and save some money.

I know you know to keep watch for redness or streaks. Please don't mind my 'preaching', but if you should, head for an Urgent Care Center. I've found them to be very good.

Take care.

Way to go Janis! We never went to the emergency room either. If it was too bad we called the doc...and he answered and met us at his office. I guess a few of the broken bones ended up going to hospital to get xrays and casts but we were lucky in our family and had few.

Good for you, Janis,
DH is the splinter remover in our family. He uses a needle, that he raids from my sewing basket, and tweezers, sterilized with alcohol.
He always stressed that they should always get the splinter out asp, so it would not start an infection.
Never had an infection.
Even when the kids moved out, and lived close by, they would come over to have dad remove a splinter.

I heat my house with firewood, splinters happen a lot, I have a good pair of tweezers handy, sterilize the tweezers and treat the affected area with peroxide.
For the occasional burn I keep a potted Aloe Vera in the kitchen. break off a small piece and rub the juicy part over the burn before a blister develops. Done right away it works well.

I keep a tube of Ichthammol Ointment on hand for when I get a splinter that is either going in vertically and I cannot grab it with the tweezers, or if a small amount breaks off that I cannot get out. Takes a few days to pull the splinter to the surface where I can grab it, but sure works better than me continuing to dig with the needle and saying naughty words! Talk about making a sailor blush at those times...........oh yeah.

And as Lilo says, Aloe Vera for heat caused injuries to the skin.

Glad to see you posting, Janis. Hope you and Katrina are doing well.

Mary

This post was edited by gmatx on Fri, Jul 4, 14 at 18:49

Never heard of http://www.amazon.com/Perrigo-Ichthammol-Ointment-20/dp/B005ZDD19Y
so I looked it up.I have no question that it works, but it seems so expensive.

Here is a link that might be useful: -Ichthammol-Ointment

West_gardener - Whoever is selling it on Amazon for that amount of money is out of their ever-loving gourd!! And, whoever is buying it for that amount is also out of their mind. I think that I paid less than $4.00 at the local pharmacy for the same size tube.

I guess the old saying that "a fool and his money are soon parted" (or something to that effect) was proven true by the above. LOL

Many, many years ago, as in the Stone Age or maybe it was the Dirty Thirties, we use to use ichthammol on farm animals as well as us for things that needed to be drawn out or brought to a head, such as a boil, stickers, thorns, etc. Stinks but works really well.

Mary