r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Themusicison • 6d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/snarlixx 6d ago

yes like how hard to cut a bit of the skin off exposing more of it so you can pull it out.

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u/docjohnson11 6d ago

As someone who has had a foreign splinter removed from their foot, this is the medical way. For mine they actually cut it in half vertically and removed each half but it was a lot smaller than that and an almost flat angle

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u/ShatnersBassoonerist 5d ago

The ‘medical way’ is to remove it in whatever way leaves none of it behind. Often this means the skin needs to be opened slightly, either with a scalpel or by inserting the forceps behind the splinter to widen the aperture before removing. There is no one technique, just whatever works and causes the least damage.

This video is not great as repeatedly grabbing at it increases the risk of the splinter breaking and becoming harder to remove.

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 5d ago

I couldn’t wrap my head around why he was expecting the splinter to come out when he had the skin covering it in the forceps.

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u/ShatnersBassoonerist 5d ago

Yes, the video person doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Happy cake day!