Summer - it's time to not only fun and long walks for children, but also a time of broken knees, scratches and splinters. How to provide first aid to the child how to remove the splinter quickly and correctly said Dr. Komarovsky
Komarovsky Eugene O.on his page on Instagram sharing advice and tips to remove splinters. The best thing to get it, how to treat with antiseptic and when to contact the clinic - about bo all recounts doctor.
Splinter removal to be indispensable, and the sooner the better. The fact is that in any splinters necessarily become infected the damaged area of skin, so if you do not remove the foreign body, purulent inflammatory process is inevitable.
Removal splinters:
- remove the splinter should one who sees better and who expressed the least trembling of the hands;
- do not rush, get ready: put next to everything you need to compulsorily provide normal lighting;
- to remove small splinters very handy magnifying glass;
- splinter can protrude from the wound, and can be broken off, ie. e. fully contained within the skin. If a splinter sticking out, it always makes sense to first remove it and then treating the wound (wash, lather, scrub and so on. D.). This rule is logical due to the fact that in the process of washing splinter wounds are easy to break. At the same time the most optimal course of action - to pour on the wound with a disinfectant solution;
- thorn protruding should pull in the direction (at the angle), in which it entered the skin;
- to capture a splinter region, ideally use tweezers (lies in mother's manicure kit); a very effective tool to remove splinters - maminy nails pretreated disinfectant;
- the splinter which is completely immersed into the skin with a needle removed; free needle tip of the splinter, making it available with tweezers or fingernails;
- to extract splinters not optimal sewing needle and sterile medical (those that are placed on the syringe);
- if the needle is non-sterile, it must be sterilized (dipped in an alcohol, iodine solution, to boiling water, to hold the flame);
- before using the needle, preferably several minutes to hold the damaged area in warm water;
- after splinter removed, thoroughly rinsed damaged skin portion with warm soapy water, wet, treat disinfectant or alcohol solution of iodine;
- close the wound bactericidal plaster.
If you can not remove a thorn - a definite cause for seeking medical help.
Before sent to the doctor, use disinfectant solution or alcoholic solution of iodine and cover splinter bactericidal plaster.
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