I may have a glass splinter in my toe. I can’t see it or palpate it, yet I feel it when I bend the toe. Do poultices work?
*likely to be glass as mr mutant broke a glass salt grinder a few days ago. No matter how much one sweeps and vacuums, there always seems to be glass left over…
Black Ointment, or Ichthyol Salve, also called Drawing Salve has been traditionally used to treat minor skin problems such as sebaceous cysts, boils, ingrown toenails and splinters. The main ingredients are often ichthammol, phenyl alcohol, or arnica montana, and may contain herbs such as echinacea or calendula. The name comes from archaic belief that an irritant can “draw out” evil humors.
Divine Angel said:
I may have a glass splinter in my toe. I can’t see it or palpate it, yet I feel it when I bend the toe. Do poultices work?*likely to be glass as mr mutant broke a glass salt grinder a few days ago. No matter how much one sweeps and vacuums, there always seems to be glass left over…
I seem to remember success with them when I was a kid. I was always getting splinters – wood and glass. Bit of a tomboy I was.
Or let it get infected and the pus will assist with pushing the offending item out. Or the skin can grow over it and let it sit there and cause problems years later.
HTH
Also – WB&D.
Well, causing problems years later does sound like fun…
I have a friend who’d stepped on a sewing needle and didn’t notice it had embedded itself. Pain years later, followed by surgery.
Divine Angel said:
Thought about getting a friend or (shock, horror) a medical professional to dig it out?
Well, causing problems years later does sound like fun…I have a friend who’d stepped on a sewing needle and didn’t notice it had embedded itself. Pain years later, followed by surgery.
Seems the jury might be out (poultices and drawing creams).
Dig it out with a needle or get Mr Mutant to do it.
TOOLS:
Needle
Box of matches
Magnifying glass
Bottle of whisky
Bullet
Bandaid
METHOD:
1. Drink several large shots of the whisky, wait 10 minutes.
2. Sterilise needle over flame of match.
3. Bite on the bullet.
4. Gouge out the splinter with needle.
5. Wash wound in remaining whisky.
6. Apply bandaid.
We have used a bran mash in a poultice boot for an abcess in a horses’s hoof.. there are are a stack of different home brews.
If you don’t have a proper boot you can improvise with cloth held on with duct tape.
HTH
I happen to have always espoused poultices. However, in the case of glass splinters, I’d opt for cutting it out. If you can see it pull it. If you have to chase it, you are looking for trouble.
+ 1 vote for getting it dug out.