Deeply Embedded Splinter.

[Tilly2]

This is a bit trivial compared to some of the questions in this section.

I have a splinter in the palm of my hand which has been there for years. Intermittently it drives me bonkers and itches to distraction. I have been applying mag. sulphate paste for the last few days and I can now feel a slight lump under my skin but can't see anything.

Will the mag sulphate work eventually? Will the splinter come out? Do I need to break the surface of the skin to get it to work?

[tonyav]

Ohhhh I do like a woman with mechanical knowledge Tilly.

[DTCwordfan]

rubbing a snail across a wart that I had got rid of the wart.....

[Tilly2]

Did you intone a little spell, as well DT?

[tonyav]

DTC I thought that you had to cut a potato in two and rub one half of it on the wart and bury the other half in the garden.

[Tilly2]

FGT, you must be very brave if you only vaguely remember being stung by a wasp. I'd be going on about it for years.
I'm a right wimp.

[DTCwordfan]

Nope tilly! I have heard that putting a bandage over it can bring it closer to the surface and then you can "go in" with a bit of self surgery.....

[boxtops]

Those wet elastoplasts would have worked if the skin hadn't healed over, I used them to get out a deep splinter on my foot recently.

[Tilly2]

I haven't seen wet elastoplasts, boxy.

I think I just need to leave it alone, as sqad said originally.

[boxtops]

They're properly called moist wound healing somethings, tilly....

[boxtops]

this sort of thing http://www.boots.com/en/Boots-Pharmaceuticals-Faster-Healing-Hydrocolloid-Dressings-Pack-of-5-Assorted-_1209211/

[Tilly2]

Thank you boxy. I haven't seen those before.