How do you draw a thorn out?

[Gill]

I have a thorn stuck in my thumb and it is painfull going to try and draw it with a poltise tonight what way do you prepare them ?

[Man of Tanith]

with splinters as a wee un my folks used to put soap and sugar over the area
nowadays i just follow my grandfather who was a chippy's advice and just wait til it goes puss filled then squeeze and out pops the splinter with the puss.
and some rather blue words

[mountainm]

I usually fish em out with a sterile pin.

[Perrari]

The only way I have seen it done is by mixing a piece of soap & sugar in to a paste, placing it on the the thorn and covering it with a plaster & leaving it. I saw it done on my cousin when he was younger when he fell in to some thorns and ended up with one in his cheek (face that is !). It worked.

[Robbi]

if you can wait till the morning you can get "drawing paste" from the chemist, works well.

[Lister]

What about them bandages with stuff in them designed to pull out splinters/thorns etc, buggered if i can remember the name of them

[shaggystu]

.....nowadays i just follow my grandfather who was a chippy's advice and just wait til it goes puss filled then squeeze and out pops the splinter with the puss.
and some rather blue words

me too, it usually takes a couple of days, so it's sore for a while, but in my experience doing it that way is a lot less painful and much quicker healing than trying to dig the things out

[789987]

I usually fish em out with a sterile pin.

me too, and some tweezers.

[Gill]

i have stuck one on just bread soaked in boiling water soap and sugar held on with a large mepore bandaid ,it was a big thorn off a Berberis bush i tried fishing it out with tweasers but no joy.

[woodspirits]

berberis you say?...hmm, 6 hours its all over mate...can i have first dibs on your gear?

[Gill]

berberis you say?...hmm, 6 hours its all over mate...can i have first dibs on your gear?

its all bagsed already lol

[mace242]

me too, and some tweezers.

Me three. Done it that way since forever

[Chiseller]

Hyperdermic needle tip, is what the nurse used last time I had over a dozen sloe thorns in my hands

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[Teepee]

Sticking plaster and iodine.

[woodspirits]

whatever happened to 'blackjack'?

[udamiano]

whatever happened to 'blackjack'?

Now your going back!!!, I think it got banned about 20 year ago. It come up in a thread Toddy was doing on drawing compounds a good while back. I think someone still had a pot of it in their folks home

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[ged]

I'm in the dig-it-out-with-a-needle camp, but at least I know that you're not supposed to do it that way.

Of course I sterilize it with meths.

[demographic]

As most of the spelks I get are during work (carpenter) hours I usually use the closest sharp thing to hand.

Stanley knife it is then. Sometimes I have needle nose pliers to hand and if they manage to make it home while still in my body its a sharp knife point and tweezers.
Some of the worst ones are the tiny slivers of metal I get from plasterboard screws, hard to see and sometimes take a bit of digging out.

[Paulm]

A pair of these http://www.heinnie.com/Precision-Tweezers/p-0-0-8174/ and a pin (optional), one or other should take care of it, or if a bit of a woose then drawing paste from the chemist does actually work as someone else mentioned

Cheers, Paul

[British Red]

Bread and dry mustard powder Gill mixed into a thick damp paste of putty consistency - cover in melolin and cling film and leave overnight.

[dave53]

+1 for british red regards dave

[santaman2000]

I'm in the dig-it-out-with-a-needle camp, but at least I know that you're not supposed to do it that way. ...

Why not? That's the way the docs do it here.

[Miyagi]

Och, easily sorted.

Make a poltice from either Ralgex or Fiery Jack and cover with a tight fabric plaster.

You won't notice the mild discomfort when you go all Yakuza on your thumb.

On second thoughts, ALL the other posts on this thread offer far better advice than mine...


Liam

[HillBill]

I strop the tip of my small opinel, and cut a small slit in the skin at the side of the splinter then just pry it out. It doesnt draw blood from the cut, no pain, and sorts it in seconds.

[awarner]

Have to say I just dig it out with what ever is at hand, sharper the better though.

[No Idea]

I think all the methods sound much better than letting Little Idea near it with his pigging pliers.

The blood blister hasnt gone yet, and Im not sure if I should have gone and got it stitched after his help.

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[AndyJDickson]

I have found that magnesium sulphate paste will draw out almost anything (boils/pimples/splinters etc). It can be found in most chemists as a paste. Slap it on liberally and cover and see what happens in the morning.

[santaman2000]

Heat your Rambo knife in the fire until it's red hot then burn it out.

[JAG009]

Dont know about the poltise thing Gill but here how i do it
1.. get sharp stanley knife
2..wipe on sleeve to sterilise
3.. cut as deep as you can at side of said thorn or splinter
4.. dig out thorn or splinter with stanley knife
5 ... wipe cut clean with sleeve to sterilise
6 ...and last of all tape up with electrical or gaffer tape to stop bleeding and keep the cut sterile


Jason

[treelore]

dig the bugger out and then clean the wond...if its black thorn keep an eye on it