What’s the best way to remove a splinter?
- Written by Andrew Woods, Lecturer, Nursing, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University
Splinters are everyday injuries commonly involving a small shard of wood, glass, metal, plastic or a thorn that becomes embedded in the skin and the soft tissue underneath.
The outer skin layer, known as the epidermis, has a high level of pain receptors. The layer just underneath, called the dermis, has even more of them, potentially making such...





