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05-10-2011, 11:53 PM
| | | | Umm.... How would you go about removing a chunk of glass from your fingertip?
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I have basically no supplies except for a nail clipper, which I'm pretty sure is writhing with bacteria. Do you think it would somehow find its way out if I just left it there? A pretty large portion is sticking out. |
05-11-2011, 12:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Phoenix / Kansas City | | | Anything sharp will work, just sanitize it with something first. Rubbing alcohol works well. You need to get it out of there. Try and hook onto it with a needle, or I've used a thumb tack before after sanitizing the tip because I had nothing else. My father would just use a razor blade, but he's a redneck.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, just a guy who has had to dig stuff out of myself before. |
05-11-2011, 12:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | Get pliers. Heat them up, or soak them in alcohol. or both. Get the glass out. Run the cut under water for a while. Soak cut in alcohol. Profit?
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05-11-2011, 12:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Denver, CO | | | I'd just cut the finger off.
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05-11-2011, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by MrTAteMyBalls I'd just cut the finger off. | True... also- glass will shatter when exposed to temperature fluctuations, so light it on fire and then hit it with a fire extinguisher. You win... oh- and pics please! |
05-11-2011, 12:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Leuven, Belgium | | | Depends on the size of the shard.
For large shards I've used an unsanitized leatherman (in less than ideal conditions). Pulled it out, then enthousiastically disinfected the wound.
For splinters I've used an unsanitized swiss army knife to get beneath the splinter and dig it out. Disinfect enthousiastically.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, just a guy who has had to dig stuff out of myself before, who is now wondering how he has not lost a finger before.
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05-11-2011, 12:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana | | | If you cant get it out, goto a doctor, or emtc. They can scan the digit to make sure everything is out. |
05-11-2011, 01:03 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | If it's large enough that it's sticking out, try to get it out CAREFULLY.
If there's much resistance, go to a doctor.
They can rip it out properly in Triage. Just dont risk anything. |
05-11-2011, 01:04 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | And pics. |
05-11-2011, 01:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson And pics. | +1 |
05-11-2011, 01:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi.
One of those "if You have to ask, You most probably can't do it correctly" moments IMHO/IME. Quote:
Originally Posted by sandmangeck If you cant get it out, goto a doctor, or emtc. They can scan the digit to make sure everything is out. | ^+1000
Even if it does look like You got everything out, You can't really be sure. So a trip to the emergency care would get my vote. If this was a poll that is.
The nice thing about glass (or other inert non-organic pieces) is that ones body will encapsulate 'em, the not so nice thing about it is that when encapsulated, it will move (albeit slowly) inside ones body. 1cm/year is said to be the average.
I personally use whatever I have at hand, the Leatherman and the Swiss Army Knife being the most used, a regular household needle coming closely at the third place. Usually I don't have anything to desinfect them, or the wound, with, but since I've been doing minor "repairs" to my body at least weekly for as long as I remember, I very rarely get any infections. The first sutures at 8 BTW IIRC  .
If possible, I do seal the area with CA as soon as possible. That allows me to continue working almost without a stop.
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05-11-2011, 08:29 AM
| | | | If the glass is sticking out a bit, use your two front teeth to grab on to it and pull it out
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Pull out a pocket knife, open it up and dig with the pointy tip until the glass is removed.
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05-11-2011, 08:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | I unfortunately have to do this, daily, at work. As I am a glass maker. You'd do well to get the glass out asap, dependent on type... some glass can do some really nasty stuff to you if it leaches into your bloodstream. If all you have are nailclippers, so be it, just don't use excessive force as it'll obviously cleave the chip.
If it's ordinary drinking glass shard (soda lime or borosilicate) it will not *harm* you, save for the discomfort. If left in, it would actually, eventually, form its own exit route (a fistula). It would look like a zit, but voila, a piece of glass. If it is something like lead crystal, yeah, get it out asap. Swab the clippers, get to work.
Good luck. Oh, and save the pics.
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05-11-2011, 08:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Gunpowder and a cigar.
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05-11-2011, 09:02 AM
| | | Excuse my crappy laptop camera. Hopefully this gives you guys a better idea. Thanks for the advice so far though, I'm going to go buy a pair of tweezers and do my best to just yank it out.   |
05-11-2011, 09:03 AM
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05-11-2011, 09:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | that should be a pretty quick extraction, there's nothing but soft tissue there...not much of a fight, if you will.
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05-11-2011, 09:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | It's just under your horny layer. Unless a komodo dragon licked it, there's no trouble there.
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05-11-2011, 09:13 AM
| | | | How long has it been in there?
There's not much red around it at all, so I'd say you're good on the not-having-an-infection front. |
05-11-2011, 09:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | imagine the stories you'll be able to tell with that scar.
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