Quick shout-out question: embedded graphite splinter

[bktheirregular]

So kid brother comes home from class, and it turns out that he managed to jam a pencil into his hand by accident, and a sliver of the graphite core broke off and lodged deep in the fleshy part of his thumb's lowest joint.

Lacking a very fine set of tweezers, is there some sort of folk remedy for this? Or is it just safer to leave the graphite sliver be? (It's in there fairly deep; can be seen as a black mark on the flesh.)

Pencil graphite's not poisonous, is it?

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[uninvitedcat.livejournal.com]

You could try a bread poultice (they're generally very good for drawing stuff out of skin - works on splinters anyway).

To make it, put a slice of bread in a pan of simmering water. Wait for bread to get sort-of puffy, and then apply a dampish lump to the wound (as warm/hot as can be born) and bind in place. Allow to cool. Remove binding, and hopefully your foreign body is either out or much closer to the surface.

OTOH, I have a friend who's got a pencil tip stuck in her leg. It's been there for over 20 years and is not a problem, so perhaps it's just less effort to leave it alone!

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