Whether you work in your garden or are redecorating, or just cleaning up, you can always get splinters underneath your skin. Even if they are deeply burrowed in the skin, or not, they must be removed as soon as possible in order to avoid any complication (mostly infections).

First of all, if you are scared or you do not think you can do this you should ask someone who is near you to aid you with getting the splinter out. The easiest way to get a splinter out is to use a sterilized tweezers. This is the procedure: you grab with the tweezers the exterior ending of the splinter and you carefully extract it in the exact direction is has entered. In case the exterior ending of the splinter is not reachable, a sterilized needle has to be used for creating a little incision in the skin, right above the splinter’s ending. Then introduce the needle under the splinter so that the tweezers can grab it and pull it out.