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. :yikes:

 

[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.