What Actually Happens If You Don't Take Out a Splinter?
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Published 2017-03-28
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Sources:
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www.cofirstaid.org/files/splinter-removal.pdf
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All Comments (21)
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Studies show that 100% of people who encounter a splinter will die eventually
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"Every rose has its thorn, but some of them have fungi that will make you sick" I'm framing this and hanging it on my wall
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I once had a thorn stuck in my foot for days, when I was a kid. I was afraid to tell anyone about it. My teacher noticed me limping, saw that my foot was turning black, and sent me home. Since this was around 1982, no one in my family thought, "Hey, let's take him to the hospital." So my grandfather dug it out with a pocket knife. Good times.
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Who's watching because they have a splinter
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Spongebob learned the hard way.
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You risk teenage turtles moving in.
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Flashback to that one Spongebob episode where his finger turns into a disgusting mess
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Me sitting here with a micro sized splinter in my foot that hurts like HECC: 😗
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Why wouldn't I take Splinter out for a nice dinner. He works hard training those mutant turtles.
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I've had a piece of pencil graphite stuck in my desk drawer since the invention of the touchscreen.
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Soo i’ve had a splinter in my hand for like 7 years, from a stick... lmao what should I do
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"tetanus can cause random muscle spasms" Me: head twitches oh, that's cool
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Googles why am I cold Google: this may mean that you have cancer and have 2 days to live
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I had a 1cm wood splinter stuck deep in my finger and having had said finger sliced open to remove the object I can attest that wood is no fun at all. Thanks for the video :)
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I remember getting a splinter in the side of my finger a long time ago. I never took it out, so there was just a dark line beneath the skin for nearly three years. I kinda forgot about it for a while and now it isn't there. I still think about that.
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My dad has three pieces of shrapnel in his arm. As a kid, I’d always put magnets on it and one was so close to the surface it would float towards the magnet
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Like what happen to SpongeBob when he got a splinter. That episode was disgusting
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Every time I get a thorn in my hand I think of that one sponge bob episode. Anyone else?
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I stopped removing wooden splinters whenever I got them when I was around 12, and to my surprise they always just disintegrate or become absorbed or something after a week or two. I was kind of hoping you'd touch on that.
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I had a splinter in my foot after walking on my aunt's wooden floors, it hurt so bad that my mother couldn't get it out and it's still in my foot till this day
