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 ...

So how do you use a potato to remove a splinter? Here are the instructions from the Farmers’ Almanac: “Cut a potato into thin slices. Place one slice on the splinter (use the side without the skin).

Splinters are fragments of a foreign object—usually wood, but also can be thorns, plastic, or metal—that break off and embed into your skin. They’re annoying, and even a tiny sliver can be surprising ...

August 18, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you've got a bunch of small stubborn splinters that are evading your attempts with the tweezer, the Parent ...

It’s the absolute worst. But the days of hacking away chunks of skin with cheap tweezers are over, thanks to one mum’s ingenious hack. All you need is a kid’s oral medicine syringe. Claire ...

Update 3/19/2019: This may be unsafe. Instead of using a banana peel, follow the dermatologist-approved instructions in this video to remove the splinter with tweezers and a needle. Bananas are a good ...

Splinters are fragments of a foreign object—usually wood, but they also can be thorns, plastic, or metal—that break off and embed into your skin. They're annoying, and even a tiny sliver can be ...