What Actually Happens If You Don't Take Out a Splinter?
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Studies show that 100% of people who encounter a splinter will die eventually
oh shit
Ares5933 no they dont
not true because I've like 10 splinters and I'm alive get wrecked
true because everybody dies
You all missed the joke lol, the keyword is "eventually." 100% of people who breathe oxygen, eat food, drink water, and sleep will die eventually as well
"Every rose has its thorn, but some of them have fungi that will make you sick"
I'm framing this and hanging it on my wall
Dogyphil
Bret Michaels is kicking himself for not taking the song in that direction.
cross stitch that shit
I prefer to think that every thorn has a rose.
Nature, in a nutshell. No she does not care at all about you or your problems. Here, have a parasite that'll kill you in 50 years and you won't even know.
That doesn't seem bad compared to the other shit that can kill you. Got things that can slowly eat your skin, cause it to bubble, fill up with weird puss, cause it to dry out and crack, make you feel intense excruciating pain, or feel nothing at all. All of it can happen in a short time, or long time. Some with remedies and some without remedies. Fast and slow acting....yeah...a parasite that can kill you in 50 years without your knowledge sounds WAY better than the other ways to go. Just saying...could be A LOT worse. I love nature. *fap fap fap*
I once had a thorn stuck in my foot for days, when I was a kid. I was afraid to tell anyone about it. My teacher noticed me limping, saw that my foot was turning black, and sent me home. Since this was around 1982, no one in my family thought, "Hey, let's take him to the hospital." So my grandfather dug it out with a pocket knife. Good times.
Word Unheard I think just about every curse word flew through my head just imagining the pain that would have caused you!!!! Would have hurt anyway, but in am area infected THAT bad?!? That's like medieval times torture!!! E gags man!
Pain is temporary, lessons learned are forever. I never went around barefoot after that. Since we lived in the country at the time, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I don't even remember the pain or the actual event. But I do remember that it happened, and the fear I felt when my grandfather said what he was about to do. My foot is still alive and kicking, after all these years.
i stepped on a sharp piece of wood to day and thats how i am rn im limping and my toe hurts like hell and i always walk around barefoot
Same exact thing happened to me!
I forgot that not all people who watch CZcams are kids so I was pretty confused for the first half 😂
*Flashback to that one Spongebob episode where his finger turns into a disgusting mess*
That's too painful to watch
patrick:*throw's garbage at it*
Helppp me plsss.i just got a splinter from our table in my leg.cant get it out.i tried to but it broke so the rest of it is inside.helppp
@@christiankyleacbang9439 comment at main or reddit or pinterst tou will probably get an answer there
@@billdechenhouward4089 too late.the wound healed and the spilter is insidey leg now yey🙃
You risk teenage turtles moving in.
SlyPearTree
Duuuude.
Can I have some of that comedy gold?
I don't get it.
*Matthew Noneya*
splinter is the name of the rat who is the care taker and trainer of the teenage mutant ninja turtles
idrinkchocomil
Thank you.
Why wouldn't I take Splinter out for a nice dinner. He works hard training those mutant turtles.
TomGreen 99
i love you
rooster Sorry , I'm taken.
TomGreen 99
its chill, ur datemate can join in on this youtube comment romancing
This is the best comment I have seen on CZcams.
YeS
Who's watching because they have a splinter
King. boyce me I got a wood splinter in my foot but then the next day it was not there where is it I’m scared
@@Clan-be1dc im dying
@@Clan-be1dc ff4fhtee
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Me sitting here with a micro sized splinter in my foot that hurts like HECC: 😗
same
Ya think your havin a bad time?
I had 100 of thoes in my foot
Mine is on my finger
I just got one it hurts like hell
Same, but it doesnt hurt.
Spongebob learned the hard way.
Nick.
Oh my god that episode was disgusting
Caden Gaticam ikr
Nick. Didn't watch that episode. What is it about?
Ariel Barahona Spongebob gets a splinter in his thumb and he can't get it out. His thumb gets huge full of pus and when he does get it out all the pus and shit comes out
Nick. *and confetti
I've had a piece of pencil graphite stuck in my desk drawer since the invention of the touchscreen.
Benjamin Hershey I've had pencil lead in my right palm for 6 to 7 years
Ben D i have one too on my shoulder lol had it for like 6 years now
Ben D Lol same. Idk if it ever goes away
Ben D
Hanna A
wow, same! high five guys!
I have one in my finger that's small and its been there for 5 years...
You can even see it through the skin easily
Soo i’ve had a splinter in my hand for like 7 years, from a stick... lmao what should I do
same kept mine in for a long time. I wont remove it but idk if it is good or bad. Probs dont remove it if it doesnt bother u cause it will be more of a hassle to remove it
i’m pretty sure if there was any dangerous bacteria/fungus on it, by this point your immune system would have already destroyed it
Mortal Coral yeah I’d say so too
OMG same, I got in in preschool when I was 3
Same, a thin wood just stucked in my hand for almost 3 months now. I can feel the pain whenever i touch it and i dont know how to remove it 😭
"tetanus can cause random muscle spasms"
Me: *head twitches* oh, that's cool
I had a 1cm wood splinter stuck deep in my finger and having had said finger sliced open to remove the object I can attest that wood is no fun at all.
Thanks for the video :)
leakycheese Have you never heard that before?
Marcel Rodriguez Good for you mate, the one in my hand was completely embedded in the tissue of the finger and I could not even see it if was in there. After trying to find something to grab and remove with tweezers I gave up and thought nothing else of it for a couple of weeks until my finger swelled up and went nasty due to the infection. That's when I visited A&E and they cut my finger open to remove it.
There was a time last year where I kept getting very thin probably 1-5mm wood splinters stuck in my hands/fingers (atleast one per week).
At some point I gave up trying to always get them out because it would takr atleast an hour to do so. Somehow after a week or two my skin just naturally rejected the wood nd it pushed itself out either until I could take it out or it just fell out on its own. My skin was indeed a bit red and irritated throughout the process, but I just put bandaids on so the pain wouldn't bother me. At first I was lowkey worrying that my finger would have to be cut off, but even now I'm curious as to how it didn't cause me to get any bad infection because I remember 2-3 splinters were from very old moldy wood 🤔
I had one a days ago but my body seems to have ejected it out of my skin by breaking off the top layers of the skin.
I've gotten a splinter shoved up under my fingernail before. Had to dig it out with a needle. Even thinking about it now makes me cringe.
Like what happen to SpongeBob when he got a splinter. That episode was disgusting
Sounds interesting but last time I checked sponge bob wasn't available on youtube and I don't know any other way to watch it so I probably won't watch.
hello Just the Nickelodeon websites
I was walking on my grass bare foot I got a henge in my foot it was like a twig it was umm like sharp and brown I screamt and ran inside then I tried getting it out but then I screamt it's stuck then my mum got to tweezers I nearly fainted she pulled it out it hurt so bad and btw I was crying when it was in me and guess what I now have a whole in my foot every time I walk on it it hurts and I haven't been on my trampoline bc my toe will hurt I hope it gets better soon do u guys AND A NOTE DONT GO BARE FOOT OUTSIDE or yeah....ohh yeH and it started bleeding like crazy so I had to stick a plaster on it you guys do not want a splinter like me I swear!!!
i love unicorns lol ur skin is probably too soft
L ool
Seems like they need to start making wooden knives.
My dad has three pieces of shrapnel in his arm. As a kid, I’d always put magnets on it and one was so close to the surface it would float towards the magnet
Hans Cascante woah that’s cool 🤯
I don't know what's cooler, the magnet sticking to the arm or him letting you do that.
Tony stark
Lmao, your dad wasn’t bothered by you demonstrating electromagnetism on bullet shrapnel from Nam’?
Every time I get a thorn in my hand I think of that one sponge bob episode. Anyone else?
888Horse Lover888 that ep was shit
888Horse Lover888 it haunts me
the one where he falls then gets a splinter then Patrick tries to help. yas aly yas
Can confirm, fell onto a plant and impaled my thumb whilst tramping when I was 14, ended up with a ~3cm piece stuck in my hand which I pulled out and cleaned immediately but it turned out there were still two ~0.5cm pieces stuck under the skin. it got infected, the doctors failed to remove it on first attempt (local anaesthetic and prodding around with a scalpel) so ended up putting me in hospital for three days so I could have general surgery. The surgery itself only took like 10 mins and the entire time I was in hospital I felt really bad for taking up their resources like I was completely fine just had a bandage on my thumb meanwhile the other people in my room had broken legs and couldn't get around unassisted. To make the guilt worse, this happened in mid-December so a bunch of players from the national [field] hockey and soccer teams came through with christmas presents for everyone. It didn't help that at the time I was a couple months off turning 15 which is the age you move to the adult hospital so I was the kid who looked too old to be there and definitely not injured enough for the ward I was in, accepting presents and taking promotional pics with random sportspeople I'd never heard of.
CrazyStalkerPerson
not sure if this is good or bad...
but this post made me chuckle
That would be embarrasing, I had a broken leg once, I was in the hospital for a few hours and got sent home...it wasn't that bad thank the lord.
If you think that's embarrassing, I was so weak back when I was around 5, that the first tooth I lost, I lost it because I accidentally landed face first onto a soft pillow, and the tooth wasn't even loose!
Haloy There + did your hair fell off and grew out blue? (I'm sry I couldn't contain myself look at your profile pic XD)
Aw shit thats humiliating
I've had a piece of glass stuck in my thigh for 6 years after falling on a smashed bottle. about an inch long and wide. Can feel it if I press on it but it never given me any problems
I remember getting a splinter in the side of my finger a long time ago. I never took it out, so there was just a dark line beneath the skin for nearly three years. I kinda forgot about it for a while and now it isn't there. I still think about that.
*Googles why am I cold*
Google: this may mean that you have cancer and have 2 days to live
How is that funny?
Salty Modz_. Because it’s true
*Googles why am I hot*
*Me* why do I see diabetes
@Salty Modz_. Because the answer that he/she got was completely wrong
ayaz nasiry Dr.Google to the rescue
I have a question!
Why does plain old water - tap, bottled, or filtered - sometimes taste distinctly sweet?
Ashley Buchanan : I've had it happen in all 3 US states I've lived in (CA, HI, & OR); in tap water, filtered water, and bottled water (that was usually from another state). So, my supposition is that it's either that some trace minerals just taste sweet sometimes and people just don't notice very often, or it's because I'm one of that group called supertasters. However, others who were emphatically *not* supertasters have experienced this phenomenon with me, so I am terribly curious. And, of course, there may be another answer I haven't thought of or been able to find myself. That's why I'd like them to answer the question!
I can second this observation. No idea why, but sometimes water tastes sweet. Your tongue gets used to the slightly salty taste of your mouth, perhaps? Idk.
That's not good bro. Lead has a distinctly sweet taste. That's why young children enjoy eating lead based paint. You might want to get a better filter for your tap. It might have lead in it.... as for the bottled water, either it's the "added minerals" or it also has lead in it.
@Foreverparadoxed: See my above explanation for the unlikelihood that it's due to lead... though not impossible. Therefore, the desire for the question to be answered by the SciShow peeps.
It is the carcinogins having a party in your mouth.
I have had a splinter in my hand for 5 years and its part of my body now. I can still se it in my hand! Cool but creepy. That means i am part wood!
I also steped on a nail 7 years ago and i could not walk for 2 weeks
Lol i have 4 splinters for already 5 years its a red dots
Thomas Itkin lol
I have had a splinter in my foot for about a week now. So do I not have to worry and right now its underneath my skin. Will I die? I need answers
*see*
@Just Skylar the first op said the wood have stuck for 5 years and become part of him though -
So i guess not all splinter will work their way out
Lmao he said “funji” instead of fungi
Once I got a pine needle stuck in my finger. But like, it wasn't just sticking out of my finger, it was there horizontally and somehow my skin grew over it, so it was stuck there. I don't even know how it happened. The skin was pretty thin though so you could still see the needle through it. And I basically just scratched my skin open and got it out...weird
If you take a needle and take your thumb for example stick the needle through your skin but not into flesh angle the needle upwards and stick it the rest of the way through the needle will be kinda under your skin like you just described. It doesn't even hurt. Look it up if you don't know what I mean
same!but mines is in my lower finger but ive had it in for 4-5 years and i have thick skin on my hands :/
Yak 3nu that's because it only pierced the "dead skin" layer
The exact same thing happened to me but underneath my foot
Yak 3nu I had ran my finger on wood and it chipped and got in there. Eventually it turned into a zit (well not zit since it didn't look like one and didn't feel like one but I can't describe it any better) I eventually 🎉 and it with something that looked like puss (but it wasn't since it looked like spoiled ranch) I was so relieved when it came out too
did he really just pronounce fungi
"fung-j-eye" 1:39
Oh he did
ITS FUN-GUY😡
Funji
I laughed so hard at this
And then at 2:40 he said it correctly. Strange.
I like this guy cause he actually gives facts and information about the stuff we need to know unlike other people...
1:17 did you say "INZIDE" XD
My dad is a machinist. One day at work a metal part he was working on exploded a little and he got a bunch of metal splinters. He dug all but one out. It was too deep so he figured he would give it a day or two to rise up to the surface. Two days later he couldn't find it and assumed it fell out. 5 months later it appeared on the OPPOSITE side of his finger and he got it out. Kinda gross
I was more hoping this would be about the process by which the body breaks down larger foreign objects under the skin. Sure a thorn cannot break down short term but perhaps the body will do something about it eventually. Maybe? I don't actually know and i still don't because you did not cover it.
sometimes the infection will get bad enough - with puss etc - that the object will be pushed out. I assume that it only works with smaller splinters and ones relatively close to the surface, though. plus it won't happen with splinters the body doesn't care about - such as lead or metal ones
if you want to know the specific facts though I can only suggest looking it up :D
Tim Jadeglans It forms a granuloma that walls it off, simple. He did say as much in the video.
The body can't break down foreign objects nearly as well as most people believe. The reason tattoos are permanent is because the ink is too large for white blood to break down. They try, but even something as small as the ink in a tattoo is too big. Tattoo removal involves using lasers to actually break up the ink into smaller particles instead of a giant glob so that the white blood cells can surround it and dispose of it. A thorn is much larger than an ink molecule, and inorganic matter like glass or metal can be even harder to get rid of. There is no point in wasting white blood cells trying to move it when you can just wall it off, and trying to remove it in surgery can be even more damaging than just leaving it in there.
Tim Jadeglans if the body can't get a splinter ejected, it stays inside just like he said. I certainly remember someone telling me they have a largish wooden splinter in their hand because it doesn't bothers them and getting it out would be more harmful. Just like shrapnel can stay inside for life; one of my grandfathers had shrapnel left in his hands for life after WW2.
GryphonSkull small splinters stuck not too deep under skin get ejected eventually even if not inflamed. I myself got urchin needless stuck too deep in my foot to dig them out easily, and they surfaced months later.
I had a splinter in my foot after walking on my aunt's wooden floors, it hurt so bad that my mother couldn't get it out and it's still in my foot till this day
Does it still hurt
"Every rose has it's thorn, but some have fungi that will make you sick." Hank Green - 2017
I got a glass splinter on my foot once. I was not going to leave that thing in my foot. Sure, it would probably have fallen out one day, but a few minutes of pain and a lot of bleeding kept me from feeling like I stepped on a Lego with every step I took.
Michael D'Augustine good decision on your part. I left a shard of porcelain in my foot and it grew this huge boil that made every step pain. I eventually had to pop it and that was so much worse than just immediately removing it.
Once I got a piece of lightbulb in my foot 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
same but I was a savage that day because I broke three rules
1. don't go in the kitchen without shoes because a pan top broke
2. don't take grandmas tweezers without asking
3.if you have something inside you that is not supposed to be there then tell some one
I took it out immediately, only bled a little.
Were you able to see it? I think I have the same but I can't see anything but I definitely feel something or two. I'm assuming they're small long pointy shards of glass that are clear. Somebody help 😭😭😭
Bish i had a splinter once in my thumb from rubbing it against a wooden railing and i only picked off all the skin off my hand to finally realise i was picking on the wrong hand
Poatatasium Poatatogen PO2
How wrong? Was it someone else's hand?
Bruce Dunn walrus
Poatatasium Poatatogen PO2 lol
That's the funniest shit I've read all day 😂
I watched this while taking a splinter out, and it really helped calm me down
This is gonna turn out like that spongebob episode
I once got a small pencil tip stuck on my hand, I just left it there, and when I noticed it wasn't there anymore. I don't know what happened with it though.
Same! Lmao my 2nd grade classmate asked me if her pencil was sharp enough and poked my middle finger.
SincerelyMichael lol same thing happened to me with my classmate in 1st grade ...but i can still see it under the skin after 12 years
Marko Vukoja i still have a piece of like some kind of sharp hard grass thingy in my finger since 2013
You have absorbed it for sustenance to provide for your upcoming transformation into a pencil. To speed up this process stab more pencils into yourself. Otherwise it will take longer but your skin will absorb anything you touch and use it as fuel for the upcoming conversion. You will become....... pencilvester.
That happened to me to, like 12 years ago. For the longest time I could see it under my skin, but eventually it disappeared. Idk where it went.
Well, I have a "tip of a pencil" inside of me right now. It has been inside my right hand for 8 years and nothing happened.
Haha I have aswell!
Ananas so do I lol. I can see it in my palm
Well one time someone hit me with a nasty, old yard stick and a large sliver went sideways in my skin so you could see it. It took a lot of time trying to get the tweezers on it, but it finally came out. if anything you could go to your doctor and see if they can remove it.
That's because a tip of a pencil is made of graphite. And you can use that to tattoo. So you kinda got a small dot tattoo haha
I have a tip of a pencil in my leg. It was sticking out of my bookbag when I changed positions on the bus one day and has been with me ever since. You can see it as well.
I got a piece of glass stuck in my foot when I was like 11 or 12 and I never got it out. I'm turning 20 pretty soon and I've completely forgot about it until I watched this.
hahahhaa that last line was funny, hank couldn’t help it but laugh
Wood you like me to take out the splinter?
no.
That was bad. If you want to make a good pun, you've got to BRANCH out. And don't BARK out the first thing you think of. Don't let me SAP out your enthusiasm, though. Just think of this as a GRAIN of advice.
it feels bad when u gotta capitalize the whole word and its like explaining the joke imo
Wood you?
Snikkyme oh i just got the joke wow Alondra for real
I worked for a contractor for a while and we got splinters all the time to the point of being completely desensitized. The trick he taught me if you can't get it out right away is to just wait a couple days for it to start to get infected and then squeeze it out with the puss. It's kind of nasty but works pretty well.
Lawrence Lentini or use glue put glue on the area let it dry and peel it off normally it will pull it out
Cruelty to animals - meow
+zan w yeah it is easy but I think it would be infected more if you do that method but thanks for sharing you tip
Yess..ur skin will reject any kind of skin invasion..😂
Eeh no protection equipment?
Thank for the info
I have a little piece of wood stuck in both of my hands. You can still see them beneath the surface of the skin.
Same i have one on my right middle finger from a few years ago
just otto I have it in my foot lol
It trains mutant teenage turtles to become ninjas to defeat Shredder!
That was so adorable :3
why do paper cuts hurt as if you are dying
Lisa Dooley they go through a lotta layers of skin
Lisa Dooley they have already made a video about that. You can also check out another channel called "Scientific America", they also made a great video about it.
But in short, it has to do with the fact, that on a microscopic level, the edge of a paper is more like a serrated sawblade than a sharp knife, which causes the papercut to do a lot of microscopic damage, cutting open a lot of nervecells.
Lisa Dooley because you're basically severing a lot of nerve endings giving your noiciceptors an overload 😂
Dying LOL. Though I have to admit it hurt me more than getting cut to the bone by a Katana (no joke, just don't ask me how it happened). Paper doesn't make clean cuts like glass or metal would and take longer to heal (if the others were superficial cuts too). Moreover, you are much more likely to cut your sensitive fingertips, where the skin is thin and many nerves are found.
edi yeah paper cuts hurt like hell. I have had teeth pulled, surgery, and braces on my teeth. but I thought paper cuts hurt more it seems.
I had a splinter in my hand for years and finally I got it removed.
How!
How bro
Can u pls tell me how?
I stopped removing wooden splinters whenever I got them when I was around 12, and to my surprise they always just disintegrate or become absorbed or something after a week or two. I was kind of hoping you'd touch on that.
Rs that why I don’t be caring to get them out I’ve had a splinter for two days now in my finger no problem doesn’t hurt I just forget about it
i got a wood one below my pointer finger what should i do
it hurts like hell
@ViolentFemme 207
Yo I got one on my pointer finger too! It's on my left hands' pointer finger but just a little lower. Thank the stars it doesn't hurt though. Well, unless I try to use my nails to get it out. Then it sends a sharp pain through my body and finger for a split second 😐
@ViolentFemme 207
Also, did you get yours out? I hope it doesn't hurt for you anymore 😉. The way I got my splinter was when I did some raking in my front yard with my fam yesterday. I guess a piece of wood got into my finger at one point and I felt a little bit of pain the second I got it in my skin 😬
why do we get chills
or aftertaste
like always great video
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• its_lia • chills are usually from being cold or from rushed of adrenaline. Aftertaste happens because there are multiple flavors to a food, so the more powerful flavor you taste first, and the aftertaste is the other flavor.
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who remembers the spongebob episode when he had a splinter?
Bucktooth1337 you know just scrolling down I've seen that comment like 3 times
JCD Reptiles lol i didn't copy any of em
Bucktooth1337 lmao me xD
I actually chose the shard of glass first🤣😂
I got a Scishow ad about splinters before this
I'm getting that shit out as fast as I can
I've never taken out a splinter.
Am I considered 1% woodican?
Window Cleaner understandable have a great day
Window Cleaner .....yes.
Window Cleaner
Nah.
Probably like 0.001%
Window Cleaner why so many furnitures on yotube????
spriggan
thanks for this wonderful explanation
I have a big cut on my hand, caused by a chunk of glass that went in, then it left many small shards inside of me and it healed over it, should I get it out?
JaidenAnimations: *sees person get hurt with rusty nail*
"CAREFUL! YOU WILL GET AIDS!"
Seregelo The Psyduck yes.
Seregelo The Psyduck xD
Seregelo The Psyduck oh my god xD
it was a shovle mega fan right here
Careful! You might get Tetris!
"Every 🌹 has its thorns but some of them have dangerous fungi which can make you sick". What a wonderful dialogue, I really ❤ Scishow.
I remember that when I was working in a metal factory to make parts for a robotic competetion, I grabbed a handle which had a metal shaving stick on it. So it was pressed in my hand. It is a huge releave to me after watching this video. I can still see it under my skin.
Use a magnet
@@tterygoney6521 It is aluminium shaving
When I was a kid, I was running inside and slid on the wood floor. I remember feeling the splinter enter my foot. I just stood there hoping it was just in my imagination.
The splinter had to be about an inch long and it hurt too much to even touch it. So, I ignored it, or forgot about it, until I was at a friend's house. I was messing around with it and her mom noticed and seemed really worried for me. She was a nurse and very insistent that leaving it in would make my foot rot off or something. Stubborn me, I told her it would be fine.
Funny enough, I was right. Next time I was over at her house, I found that I could grab the tip of the splinter and I pulled it right out without any pain or issue. I was proud to show off how smart I was. She probably was grossed out, but I didn't notice.
I don't remember getting a splinter of wood in my hand but now I've realized I have a little (tiny) bulge inside my palm. I'm sure it's a splinter but I don't know what to do. It doesn't cause any pain or irritation, it's just there, stuck in my hand... what should I do?
Tears, whisky and a knife
Emma Thornton thank you :')
Dude it's definitely a splinter. I was chopping wood about 6 months ago and I got a splinter on the bottom side of my thumb that I forgot about. A few months later I noticed this tiny bump where it used to be and it's been there since. No pain or anything just a tiny bump under my skin. I'm guessing it's your body trying to wall it off from everything else with this layer of tough tissue maybe. It's weird I can move it around under my skin.
Twiggier Lake same here
Ian Johnson don't poke at it,and see a doctor. Chances are it will eventually work its way out,but if you mess with it,it might get infected which will require antibiotics, as mine did.
i have a half toothpick in my foot since i was 12 now its been 9 years i can feel it through my skin but it does not hurt should i be worried ?
Yes.. take it out. You're lucky its not infected!
Firas • talk to a doctor. They may advise to leave it alone. If your skin has healed over there won't be any new contamination, and taking it out may end up causing more damage than leaving it alone. But a doctor is much better equipped to give you advice that randoms on the internet
Firas • not really if there is no problem I probably have half a dozen of these kinds of things without infection. It will be sterile by now
Firas • yes call a doctor and get it out
Yes.
Anyone else just reading these splinter stories in the comments and just getting chills up your back?
One time when I was like a wee little baby (maybe 5 or 6) I was at my grandma's house for the Holidays. Me and my cousin were outside and my other cousins were out walking their dog (they were adult). It was fall and I had a rake and I was raking up leaves so we can jump in them. There was a splinter sticking out of the wood and I screamed to the top of my lungs. All the adults were outsida gathered around me and I was in hysterics. They grab some tweezers and we about to take it out and I was like "No dont take it out it hurts" and they were like "If you donts take it out, you'll get holes in your body." rephrasing when the trees have holes in them. I was petrified.
id rather have a splinter because glass camoflages in your skin and is very hard to find and remove
Agent K115 yea that's why when something gets stuck in me, i always ask for a big rusty nail. It's the easiest to spot
Agent K115 Just follow the pain.
I dunno must it be rusty though. Kinda hard to pull it out
theshuman100 glass doesnt rust or am i wrong
Agent K115 just put a some milk on your hand/ where the glass is and since its whire you might easily see it
My granuloma was to busy taking care of my granulopa to concern herself with splinters.
Rob Mann granuloma..?
Bist du deutscher? :D
Nice joke I laughed for a solid 7 minutes 😂
Jessica Nguyen grandma
9, ich bin nicht ein deutscher. Ich bin drunkensteinen!
Football player Johnny Unitas grew up on a farm and stepped on a rotting board while running, which sent a long sliver up into the calf of his leg. His family removed what they thought was all of it; but years later when he was playing football professionally, his leg swelled up and became painfully infected. Doctors removed another long sliver, at least 4 inches long if I remember correctly, from his leg.
Couldn’t get a large splinter out for two days. On the third day it squeezed out like a pimple and the wood almost mush.
when i was 11 i tripped and there was this metal full of rust, to prevent myself from dying (exaggerating) i fell down to a push up position. and the metal was like inside my palm and the rust was inside of me. i removed the rusts and it worked but there was one that i couldnt get out. i figured that it would just lift by itself then be gone. But now it's a part of me.
Happy Lemon when i was young i was running around outside with no shoes and i slammed down onto this rotten stump and got hundreds of tiny and some large splinters in my heel. To this day there are still black dots inside my foot.
One time I stuck my hand out a car window smacked a plant with my hand and had plant splinters probably a first lol
I was being dumb and put a freshly sharpend pencil in my pants with the point up and i got stabbed by the pencil while walking the tip broke off into me and its still there
Vulgar Reload I stubbed my toe once. It hurt
A year ago a girl stabbed my thumb with a pencil in class and the lead is still in my thumb today
One time I stepped on a thorny twig in my house that might have been carried in from outside, and it took me a while to get it out, but eventually we found this stuff called "Drawing salve". It really worked. We only had to put it on 2 times before I could actually squeeze the splinter out.
What's that??
one morning like three years ago i was walking around my room getting ready for school and i got a splinter i have no idea what even went into my foot but my parents wouldn’t let me stay home from school to get the splinter out so uh yeah here i am three years later with some random thing in my foot
I legit had a splinter removal add before this 😂
Also, CEDAR!
Having worked in a veneer factory, I can tell you from first-hand experience (pun not intended) that "cedar" is apparently a big deal, health-issue-wise. Anytime we had to do a "cedar run," they would schedule it for a whole day or contiguous set-of-days, and give everyone (on every shift) a safety and emergency instruction briefing (both, the week before, and each day of, the "run.")
{NOTE (for perspective): Splinters are prevalent in such factories, even amongst the veterans. Most everybody would carry with themselves a portable needle and tweezers and antibiotic kit. Veterans would usually get c. 4-40+ splinters per month, while newbies (at least for the first couple of months) might get as many as half a dozen per day.}
During such "runs," they would remind us of where the respirators were (dust and smoke hazard - although, usually minimal - protection) and they would especially, press-us to "glove-up" (full (i.e.: not fingerless) rawhide-style, work-gloves.)
{NOTE: And, just FYI; the reason why we (normally) wear either no gloves or fingerless gloves is that, we need to ongoingly monitor the humidity of the veneer with our fingers (and, in-lieu-of using a moisture-meter, which are - although, more accurate (once calibrated) - much more expensive (along with being more exposed to impromptuly, precarious situations, and thus, more prone to breakage) more bulky and in-the-way, and more time-consuming to use.) Most workers, who have been working in such a factory for more than two months, can usually judge the percent of humidity to within 2-5% by touch and, most of those who have been there for a year or more, can do so within 1% or less (and at many different temperatures - from right out of the oven, to nearly a few degrees above freezing. You just get used to it.)}
+Clorox bleach,
jan baer is using a "Figure Of Speech" (that you may remember from high-school English) called a, "Malapropism." He probably did this on purpose, for (what we with a sense-of-humor, call) a "humorous effect."
Wiki "malapropism" to see how it differs from a "pun."
Oh, and YOUR word, "…ceaser…" is either a verbose pronunciation of the acronym for "CSS Easing Animation-tool" (which would make NO sense at all - joking, or otherwise) OR, the INCORRECT spelling of the famous title/name, that jan baer's "…Cedar" is a play-on-words for - namely, Caesar (or, Cæsar) which furthermore, is capitalized…
…btw.
Next time, you might want to make sure that "you" are correct, BEFORE you attempt to correct somebody else (even IF you don't understand the humor in it.) It will tend to keep you from being a laughingstock to all who read your comment (unless of course, being laughed-at was the effect you were going for; in which case, congratulations, kudos and good job, I guess.) Cheers,
Can confirm sometimes your doctor will have you leave large chunks of inorganic material in your flesh.
It's worse if it's a surgeon. Leaving instruments inside patients sounds fun.
I remember having splinters when I was a kid, glass and wood, that will go deep and get covered by the skin, and in matters of weeks they disappear. I always believed that they get dissolved by the body or something but now that I think about it, it doesn't make sense and I am certain that they didn't get out and they are not still there.
I just got an ad before the video about a new splinter treatment XD
You make your will and accept a long painful death.
Once I had a teeny tiny snake tooth in my finger for two weeks because I didn't know it was in there. I believe it had formed a granuloma but it wasn't inflamed or itchy like wood splinters I've had. I pulled it out with tweezers and keep it in a small folded piece of paper as a souvenir (it was from my pet rat snake who thought I was food one time)
Margaret Teragram the real question is. Is how did you get a snake Tooth in your finger lol
In 1980 I was an anesthesiology resident at the Miami VA Hospital. I was on first call and was called down to the OR at about 2am. I walked in and saw this strapping guy in his late 30's lying on the operating table still awake and with a look of misery on his face. Eighteen hours earlier he was doing some yardwork and got a splinter in his upper arm. By the time I saw him the whole room stunk and his entire arm looked like dark green over-cooked spinach where muscle used to be. You could see down to his humerus bone. Obviously he was going to lose the arm. Another resident took the case so I don't know if the guy lived. I'll never forget what just a splinter could do. They felt that (like mentioned in the video) it was Clostridia.
My grandma once had a piece of glass stuck in her foot for months, she didn’t know it was there because it did nothing to harm her
Bet she walked funny
I have a mm piece of wood in index. I thought I removed it but now it looks as a calus was formed. Also somewhat tender
there's a glass stuck inside my hand for 1 or maybe 2 years and something grow on my hand after a year or 2 years my hand the one with glass inside got bumped into the door and the glass came out and my hand got cured (sorry for my English I'm just not used to speak English)
No problem about your english
It was good enough for me to understand
Your English was better than 90% of the CZcams comment section, nice.
A Small Anime lover Better than your "english"
Your english is fine
but I got a splinter that is in my toe and the skin already covered it up but how do I get it out
This summer I got a tiny piece of common mussel stuck in my foot. Now that was painful! 😖
What about a bit of graphite stuck inside your hand.
deepdownfear that has happened to me
deepdownfear I've had a piece of graphite stuck in my foot for two years
deepdownfear I've had a piece of graphite in my arm for like 6 or 7 years and I still have an arm so I think it's not that bad lol
deepdownfear I
Graphite, would be like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave it in than to dig it out.
I got a 5 inch splinter on my ass cheek before
DJI Creations always happens
DJI Creations cool bro
XD
I don't want to know how you managed that
Centauri A ah lol
I’ve got a question, a year or to back I got hit in the hand ( by the knuckles) by a pencil. The piece of graphite is in my hand but doesn’t cause any pains Or symptoms. I’m not sure if I should get it removed via a incision or just leave it, once again it’s not painful or bothering but I want to be sure. If you have any suggestions please let me know. Thx
Bro i had a barberry thorn in my ring finger for a whole year when I was 5 because I wouldn’t let me mom near it and I had to get surgery. 10/10 my dad bought my ice cream after the surgery, worth
ive got a metal splinter deep in my finger and recently ive notice i can feel pulling if i put a magnet by it.
Death_Master05 you now have magnetic superpowers, use them wisely.
Geez never get an MRI bro
OMG THAT IS SO FRICKIN COOL YOU NEED A MEGA MAGNET
Sounds cool and great fun.
Dylan Ivins use a strong magnet to try rip the sucker out
lol I've had a little splinter in me for like 7 years 😂😅
ELEMENT_ 614 same
jooo same i still have it lmao!
ELEMENT_ 614 same except mine is pencil lead
Ben D same
Ben D if it was lead, you'd get poisoned.
There was an ad for a splinter remover before this video when I watched it
As someone who has had small pieces of wood and glass stabbed into my body I can confidently say I MUCH prefer the wood over the glass.
i have a small piece of lead from a pencil that is inside my hand for 5 years and i dont feel it but i do see it
Pencils have long not been made of lead. So if anything, i'd be graphite.
MaximGeld Same, except mine is on my leg, it's been there for like 8 years. There's a lot of skin covered on top of it, but I can still see it. Will it affect me? :/
MaximGeld me too,still in my hand
haha im looking at the little bit of pencil graphite that got stuck in my palm like 12yrs ago right now...
has yet to be a problem so far. I can totally see it still but i feel it in absolutely no way at all. Body just said "fk it I guess its flesh now" at some point apparently.
Ross H haha i still have a piece of something made out of sharp grass thingy but still It's deep in my finger to see.. only if a take a flashlight and push it on my finger i may see it straight throught
The worst kind are metal ones I've never had them but my friends have had a few, and they say it's like a mega pinch but ten times worse, so I could imagine.
Vault Boy War, war never changes.
I've had glass and graphite both get stuck in my foot. I took the glass out immediately, but the graphite is still in my foot.
+Thomas Y Yeah, pretty accurate. It's been pushed down under my skin far enough it doesn't hurt anymore. (It did leave a permanent mark though...eh, nobody's gonna see the bottom of my foot anyway.)
I got an ad for splinter removal with this
I literally got a splinter remover ad before the video started lmao
Ok so I can leave a knife in my arm but a price of wood would be baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
Spongegrab Lemonpants jokes aside yes. If you get stabbed leave the knife in until you get to a doctor.
Or pull it out and stab the person back. That would be badass.
Well, sadly sitze does matter in this case.
Spencer Gibson what if the knifes made of wood? Are you just screwed in that case?
Spencer Gibson well played
if you had a knife in your arm, you DEFINITELY should NOT pull it out until you get to a doctor that knife is the only thing keeping your blood in your body and you would bleed out if you took the knife out.
1:38 he says fundgi
2:40 he says fungi
:/
Leon Naves They're both correct pronunciations
Toad and Toadette are Fun guys.
Most painful splinter I ever had went under my finger nail nearly to the base. So much pain pulling it out >_
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