Splinters, small embedded shards, cause pain due to abundant skin receptors. Effective removal involves careful techniques, ...

Splinters are everyday injuries commonly involving a small shard of wood, glass, metal, plastic or a thorn that becomes ...

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 ...

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 ...

When my 3-year-old came home from preschool with a splinter in two of his fingers, I immediately turned the tweezers over to my husband. “I’m just not good at getting them out,” I told my son, even as ...

Summer’s finally here! But with the warmer weather comes the increased chance of hassles like a poison ivy rash, insect bites and sunburns. The good news? We’ve rounded up the most tried-and-true home ...

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Never try to squeeze a splinter out or apply pressure to the region surrounding the splinter, as this might cause the splinter to split or go deeper into your child's skin. Splinters are very common ...

Don’t let a splinter get out of hand — a California ER doctor is sharing his simple removal hack. Dr. Joe Whittington, who goes by Dr. Joe on TikTok, recommends getting a clean, unused medicine ...