Doctor reacts to satisfying splinter removal!

[@deborahoates6893]

Glad it came out easily. Could have used a pin to open it up too

[@condimentman9533]

I just used a sharpened pencil

[@fish-chips980]

@@condimentman9533I just cut off my whole limb

[@saryntoews]

@@condimentman9533never. NEVER. please if you’re going to make any sort of laceration use sterile metal!!!

[@shadowcat41172]

​@@condimentman9533noooooo

[@kenzkat6162]

@@condimentman9533ummmmm…..

[@sherrysabin8572]

These splinter videos crack me up they walk us thru like it's heart surgery!! 😂😂

[@alexanderross9881]

😂😂😂

[@PagieTnT]

Lamo yea, last time I got a bad splinter like this, I just pulled it out with two quarters pressed together, you don't need fancy expensive tweezers lol

[@Happy_Fox143]

Few months ago I had that one wooden splinter stuck in my finger which came from my school bench. I had to go to a medical store it was almost inside my flesh (MY GOD!). They gave me an injection (not for local anaesthesia, idk why) when pulled it out with a pin 😭hurted so bad

[@pokolla1875]

@@PagieTnT Id rather myself a good pair of tweezers though, they’re only like a dollar in some stores

[@HeyStinky888]

I don't want to like because 666 likes

[@KaysPlushVideos]

one of the worst pains to exist is taking out a splinterv

[@Robstrap]

You've clearly never stubbed your toe on a metal edge whilst bare foot

[@DragoZ252]

Not as bad as stubbing your toe on a corner and accidentally stepping on broken ceramic plate shards

[@astridexplorer5096]

Labor pains have left the chat...

[@gworlsss393]

Sciatic nerve pain… don’t want to talk about it.

[@eastonrussell7578]

Try the pain pulling out a splinter that is in the skin under your toenail

[@Grasswhisper12]

‘Mom! Help! I have a splinter!’ ‘Ok honey, let me just grab the camera real quick’

[@perfectlyimperfect9129]

Usually a splinter is not life or death so , Driving the camera didn't Hurt anybody

[@dogg92]

"Most people choose to remove splinters at home, but of course I recommend that you come in to my office so that I can bill your insurance for $500."

[@frosty386]

Lmfao 😂funny

[@Judith-ce1qr]

Finally someone who understands that most people don't wear glives while just removing a splinter at home, it would take me longer to find a glove than to remove the damn thing

[@trentgreen5657]

Also, if they wore gloves it would be way harder to take the splinter out.

[@astridexplorer5096]

In the process of tearing up linoleum flooring a few years ago, I somehow got a huge wooden splinter embedded under the fingernail of my pointer finger. It was so long it went vertically through the center of my nail all the way to the bottom. My husband tried to remove it but it broke off just at the top where he couldn't access it anymore. I didn't have time to stop and go to the doctor, so I wrapped it up, tried to keep it clean, and let it work its way out over time while I kept working (we were remodeling our house). It took a month before it finally pushed out enough that I could grab it with tweezers and remove it. It was really painful, and a huge relief when I finally got it out of there.

[@jeffgordon9103]

Finally someone who tells the truth about glove wearing. Thank you!

[@sohum_g]

i just felt the spike of pain right as it left the skin

[@sallyidol6281]

If the splinter is hard to remove, put a piece of raw bacon on it and wrap it in gauze, the next day you will find the splinter on the bacon or the wrap. And it will also pull the bits and pieces out of the area.

[@benthomas2232]

How?

[@perfectlyimperfect9129]

I've never heard of bacon but worth a try

[@noname-dq9uf]

I just use a knife and it works.

[@marshaaragon2336]

Thank goodness for the trigger warning in the beginning...I really needed it 😂

[@Touch-Grass37]

"This looks like its gonna be big already." 💀

[@ryangullstrand7531]

I dont wear gloves while operating on myself. I'll die like a real men!

[@perfectlyimperfect9129]

😂😅😅

[@maryannfitkin9891]

He or she who operates on him/herself has a fool for a doctor. 'ever hear of septicemia?

[@lucyluwickerbeast851]

looks painful but i am sure they feal nice after :)

[@luanagardner1815]

I LOVE hearing you talk! You sound exactly like my Canadian relatives!!!❤

[@barbarafrancoeur9137]

Use nail clippers. Works way better than any other method.

[@roserides7517]

It’s a splinter. This guy went to college to walk me through a splinter. 😂

[@apfelbasket]

Gloves on both hands... Genious!

[@maryannfitkin9891]

The "macho" descriptions crack me up!

[@alox8816]

Oh wow you are a great doctor!

[@DWilliams-sf5th]

You should soak the area with warm epsom salt for a minute or so before removing if it has started to swell. I think the salt cause the splinter to shrink slighty. Sometimes just the back pressure will shoot it nearly out. Personal experience. Your's may vary.

[@davebasch5995]

Ive done this hundreds of times as a woodworker...never even thought about wearing gloves. Dirty utility knife...tweezers...whatever. NEVER had a single issue/ infection

[@timandjessica4204]

I worked at Ashley Furniture for 2 years. Had a coworker that had gotten a splinter down to the bone in his finger a few years back. Doctor's couldn't remove it, so they tried a weird method of forcing it out over time. They said if it didn't work, they would have to amputate his finger. Splinters are deadly, my friends. Be careful.

[@hopekorf6729]

Let It soak in epson salts first. it helps soften the skin

[@Gemini1965xx]

Describing it as if it was an open heart surgery

[@TheOfficialDjProduct]

I was hanging drywall and I got a splinter, slightly bigger than this, and at an angle where it went deeper into me and it was already deep, could hardly tell it was splinter from looking at it. No tweezers, but every drywaller has a utility knife. Dug that SOB out of my hand and it was one of the best things I've ever felt, was such a relief lol. It hurt digging it out but it had to be done.

[@blanketstarry7725]

I'm in construction and get splinters on a regular basis. I take my utility knife out, to open the skin just a little on the side of the splinter. I then put the flat of the blade under the end of the splinter, and pinch the splinter between the blade and my thumb and pull it out.

[@carolinemcnulty6169]

My mother's technique has stood me in good stead raising two boys. First, if it's deep, soak in hot water to open up the skin. Use a sewing pin to open up the end a bit if it's not sticking out. Then when you can get a good grip go in with the tweezers.

[@wintermoon04]

I remember getting a splinter under my fingernail, ill tell you now, thr pressure relief you get after taking those out is amazing

[@desdemona420]

when i was kid i would always climb trees so splinters were normal, id never use tweezers so i would pull them out with my bare fingers and if that didnt work id cut the skin around the wood and pull it out from there.

[@A190xx]

Good response on the gloves. See one thread where doctor seems to forget skin is an effective barrier to infection.

[@andresvaldez3372]

Fun fact: you can also use a needle to get in the splinter and push it up

[@aliabelle1765]

Who else got the sterilised sewing needle stabbing your skin special growing up? 💀💀

[@whocaresyo]

I once had a 1/4in by 2in splinter stuck deep around the Talus, was fun stuff removing it. Poured some alcohol & pulled it out with pliers :)

[@dhruvajyotidutta2243]

Once had a half inch splinter in my thumb took me a long while to take it out but the relief was immense

[@KeithOlson]

FWIW, most pharmacies will give you a couple of glucose meter lancets for free. These have a tip that is sharpened on a slant, making them a micro-scalpel. They are also completely sterile. (I would have gently slid one along the skin above the splinter to give more access.) I've used these for *YEARS* and always have a half-dozen or so in my first aid kits.

[@KratosDefiled]

I use small wire cutters that are pointy. I found they are more effective.

[@thefitnessgrampacertest247]

Needed a doctor for that analysis

[@spencerferrier3857]

I used to work in a plywood mill. These are wimpy little things. I have seen slivers that pierce THROUGH someone's arm, from wrist to elbow and out.

[@transformerfoxyfloof8341]

Imagine the relief they felt afterwards

[@plotzsiva3667]

I had a 3 inch splinter in my foot when i was 8. I just used a kitchen knife, vodka, and an OTC pain med.

[@funni_noises]

A same sized splinter could be way worse if it was at a different angle, it isn’t the size of the splinter that makes it hard to remove, it is the angle of it sticking into your body

[@michaelschultz7769]

You should see how bad a cosmoleen splinter is. They burn, they bubble around it, and is very painful

[@wirebrushproductions1001]

If you can see the entire splinter under the skin, it will almost always come out without drawing blood, and there is no particular chance of infection.

[@tsoul1333]

once I got a splinter stuck in me, thought it fell out but it just got deeper in the skin. didn't realize until I brush over it with something, by then callous had grown over, so instead of tweezers, I just use clippers to remove the callous and splinter all at once. hurt a little but the short pain relieved me greatly.

[@blakefenslerjr4858]

Don't you hate when its like 20 seconds for the person to pull the splinter out, but for us it feels oike hours 😂

[@krystledawn347]

That splinter almost went right back in.

[@DJ_Force]

Better to try and cut the skin from the front of the splinter with a needle or pin than to risk pushing it in further with tweezers.

[@tzeitelmccormick8297]

I had a thorn in my foot not that long ago. It was so painful and so small. I couldn't even tell for a few days if there was even anything in there, but the pain assured me that there must be. After getting upset and digging at the pain with some clippers, which probably was a bad idea. I was finally able to push on the surrounding area and a nice little thorn just popped right out. The pain was finally gone and it no longer hurt to walk.

[@Kash11112]

So satisfying 😮

[@tawfiquzzamanrohan8180]

Once a splinter stuck into my feet, my dad used pin to open it up 🙂it was a really painful experience

[@ninojaymata2125]

The guy with out the sound 😭😂

[@sambodyknows]

This is the first time I've seen a doctor recognize that normal people dont sanitize and glove up before doing something like remove a splinter/pop a pimple/etc. in their own home

[@OnlyOneJokester]

Yknow, there’s an easy fix to dealing with painful splinters. Put a piece of duct tape on the splinter area overnight and it sucks it right out.

[@Fucklessgiver]

I stuck my arm on a broken 2x4 tossing some glass in a dumpster for work. Probably a 30 inch piece stuck to me. Yanked it,whatever. Could feel something in there for like 6 months. when it came out, it was probably 4inches long and quarter inch wide. Hurt so damn good.

[@janew7008]

I had to have surgery to get a splinter removed from my hand when I was kid. My cousin and I were playing and hopped over an old wooden redwood fence because our cousins live next door that was our shortcut as we lived in a double lot and we were in the back of the property. Anyway when I hopped down from the fence my hand hit the top of it while I was coming down it didn't hurt very much but when I looked at it there was about a 2-inch chunk of wood protruding from the palm of my hand below my little finger. We pulled out the trunk but wasn't sure if we had gotten it all. My parents decided to wait overnight and if it was still bothering me in the morning we would go get it checked out further. Not sure how they figured it out it was would I don't know if it showed up on an X-ray but it turns out the rest of the splinter had actually gone in between the knuckle joint of my little finger there was another inch and a half splinter inside my hand. I don't remember how old I was but I do remember I took the splinter for show and tell at school after it was removed. To this day still can't straighten this finger out fully from the damage they did removing the splinter.

[@K9AndVixel]

The thing it with this is when I get a splinter I will just cut the surrounding skin until the area is completely open for me to just pick it up. It feels uncomfortable but not painful

[@Bobthebuilder.69]

My dad used to dig splinters out with his pocket knife, he was so good at it.

[@ErikFender1]

When I was 10-12 years old in the summertime, I was the "professional" splinter remover because my father was a surgeon!! Funny, yes....but I was good at it.. All I needed was a pair of tweezers......

[@WeiRd0_M3L0N]

I feel like i should be hearing screams of pain when i watch this, dont you?

[@piper_lily8445]

I got one of these a few days ago. I ended up just removing the thin layer of skin near the entrance so I could get a good grip of the head of it. I tried putting pressure on it, and it just made the pain worse.

[@JadynBlazyn]

Because it wasn't poking out at first doesn't that mean they should've tried pushing it out or created an incision to make it easier to grab first and foremost?

[@nunyabiznez6381]

Pro tip: soak your hand in very warm water with a tiny amount of dish detergent for half an hour to an hour before doing this.

[@HouseOfDulo]

Ichtammol ointment works like a charm in those instances

[@mariahdaugherty3303]

The way my toes legit curled watching this 🥴

[@Grimmarox]

If it doesn't come out quickly I usually would take a sewing needle that was previously soaked in alcohol after seeing it may be tricky. Take the needle and try to clear the skin layers until I get to the foreign body.

[@oyitijhyadas4747]

The splinter had a good personality

[@nrozie01]

I had a hair splinter once under my short nail. My finger was sore for a week or so until the nail grew out long enough to pull it out.

[@cheryldavis8776]

Please show the result of pulling out that ungrown hair! We didn't get to see that "massive ball of hair." So disappointing.

[@robertarmstrong6172]

Come on Doc, I once got a chunk of wood in my palm and it healed over. Later that year while out crabbing the salt water popped it out. Loggers are tuff

[@TheGhostInThePond]

I remember when I was little, I had a large splinter and while my mom was trying to pull it out, it broke. Three times it did this, but we got it out, no scarring or anything

[@idadho]

A hypodermic needle works far better. It cups the splinter.

[@linseyholley4408]

So satisfying

[@derkisdonenow6472]

My mom had a splinter in her foot they tried two days to pull it out and the doc tried for 15 minutes before he x-rayed it and seen not only was it 5 inches long but the part that went in that you couldn’t see half way up the splitter was 3 inches wide and no blood because the splinter clogged the hole so it turned into a cutting job don’t go bare footed on old wooden porches if she even sees a cracked bird in a porch she tells people fix it now and she will not even walk on it with shoes on

[@cindiloowhoo1166]

Then, alcohol, neosporin & bandaid.

[@dangelopink8782]

When we get splinters of n e kind,we just take out the knife.....slice it,pull it or dig it out, throw some tape (n e kind,if u even need it) and go back to work.

[@Mushroomarts165]

God, big splinters are such a pain to get, i remember i got a really big splinter a little bigger then the one in the video from carrying something made of wood, not fun.

[@user-kz3hz6cg9o]

So what happens if splinter stays under skin for months?

[@_axxika_3715]

I once wore my crocs and walked in our backyard. I stepped on a rusty nail and it went straigh through my foot. I was never more glad to life in Germany where everyone has health-insurance.💀👍 and heck that thing caused me a lot of pain. Didn't help that they had to remove it while I still wore my crocs.😢

[@guessundheit6494]

Ugh, no. Burn the tip of a needle, and break 1-2 millimetres of skin, enough to get a full grip. The LAST thing you want is for the sliver to break.

[@jone7079]

Yessssss !! @Finally got it !! 🥇🎀🎆

[@Mostaism]

A box cutter tip in under the wood, clench and pull.

[@Zeebrum]

I had a glass splinter once and it was on my right hand thumb when you look top down hand flat on top over a surface on the left/bottom side kinda going into more of the palm side but still in between the soft top side a little above the last knuckle going from the tip of my thumb into the hand following the thumbs direction into connection with the hand and getting that out without being able to use the dominant hand and dull tweezer and the splinter being all the way under couple layers of skin so I had to break the/rip/tear/cut open the layers to get to the level then a bit more for them being dull tweezers and pushing the glass splinter back more while having done that it took about 20 mins because I was trying to do as much as I could to not cause more damage but still get it out as soon as I could then went right back to work after using some rubbing alcohol and threw a butterfly band aid since it was basically on the knuckle and the movements from the thumb and 30 to an hour later swapped out the band aid for same style just new one and cleaned off and extra of anything still there before applying new one

[@etpk3299]

I remember getting so pissed off at picking at a splinter that I just sliced a bigger entrance with an xacto knife

[@user-bh9rw2re5s]

Tbh honest. I dont use tweezers. I use needles.

[@tea6897]

When I was little my mother always took my splinters out with a needle of some sort. It wasn’t painful beleive it or not

[@marthaclark9160]

Great strategy getting that dog gone splinter out!! ❤❤

[@jennaxoxox]

I had a piece of glass in the bottom of my foot for 3days, I told my partner my foot was sore, he told me there was nothing there, it turned a really deep purple and when he squeezed it a ton of pus squirted out with a substantial sized piece of glass. He didn't even apologize for gas lighting me 🙄

[@timheywood4813]

Trigger warning? For what? That splinter is buried about 0.5mm parallel to the finger.

[@quiksilvr90]

I got a piece of steel wool in my palm recently. Tweezers couldn't grab it, but fortunately my hemostat could

[@whatsnxt9144]

I never ever thought one could make a content just by making people watch pull out a splinter

[@jaimiebellinkx5007]

i got a splinter once and i can relate to this but right in my middle of my hand it was huge

[@rockycrayon3166]

This reminds me of the time I gotten a pine splinter in my knee. Was so long that it ended up splitting down the middle if I bent my knee, took 4 needles to get it numbed enough to get it out. I think I still have it somewhere in a little specimen jar.

[@ronpetroski7203]

I use nail clippers and cut it out.

[@baxtrom]

Only the tweezers are in contact with the splinter/skin, why are all these doctors complaining about gloves?

[@lovedandbeloved19]

That looks like the same thickness as a toothpick! Ouch!

[@BeckyZoeG]

I have a broken piece of splinter in my thumb that's been there since I was 6 years old... I'm 30 now 😂 were just friends at this point 😂

[@user-sy6ji4ob2e]

I once had a splinter that I left in my wrist and after about 3 months my body absorbed it

[@greyson2344]

I was curling up my toes at the whole video

[@pattiburkholder8087]

Love your video, but not for what you might think. It was the comment about not wearing gloves and that most ppl don't have sterile gloves to pull out at will. This other guy just came out so judgemental because of no gloves or proper tools. Reality is that most ppl try to fix themselves before paying at that money at the doc. Heck some would rather die trying than pay those. It's only gonna get worse...price of medical care is just sky rocketing and insurance pays less and less...fact...