Removing Splinters
Aug 15, 2019 15:27:42 #
Dannj wrote:
Kinda like banging your head against the wall for a few minutes. Hurts like hell for a while but feels sooooooooo good when you stop😊
Ha. No not quite that good but up there.
Dennis
Aug 15, 2019 15:40:52 #
Aug 15, 2019 15:51:16 #
rick_n_wv
Loc: Charleston WV
I remember as a kid my mom using egg whites as a drawing potion. Think she mixed in a little baking soda if memory serves my right.
Aug 15, 2019 16:03:28 #
rick_n_wv wrote:
I remember as a kid my mom using egg whites as a drawing potion. Think she mixed in a little baking soda if memory serves my right.
She didn’t put your splintered body part in the oven did she?
Dennis
Aug 15, 2019 18:05:14 #
Haha...as a lifer tradesman (carpenter,cabinet maker, robot Geppetto) I just dig 'em out...if they won't cooperate with my sharp-as-hell tweezers. ;0)
Aug 16, 2019 14:23:08 #
I've been using ichthammol for at least 45 years. It works on just about anything. It seems to work sort of like warm tar. That's what my mother did. She'd go out to the road in front of the house, and scrape a small bit of tar off the road. She'd come in and apply the warm tar to whatever my complaint was - bee sting, boil, splinter, thorn... It always worked. I had forgotten about that until my kid got a splinter and that's when I discovered ichthammol, thanks to advise from the pharmacist. With the advent of concrete streets, tar has become hard to find.
Aug 16, 2019 14:45:32 #
chasgroh wrote:
Haha...as a lifer tradesman (carpenter,cabinet maker, robot Geppetto) I just dig 'em out...if they won't cooperate with my sharp-as-hell tweezers. ;0)
A real man’s man👍👍
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