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Treatment:

• If the area around the splinter is dirty, wash with soap and water.
• Sterilize a pair of tweezers by passing them through a flame.
• Hold the tweezers as near to the skin as possible and grasp the splinter, pulling it out gently.
• If unsuccessful, treat as an embedded foreign body and seek medical help.
• Check tetanus immune status of the casualty. Splinters are rarely clean and a tetanus injection may be necessary.
• DO NOT PROBE the area to reach the splinter