Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture this: You're enjoying the weather outside on the porch when you brush up against a piece of wood and suddenly feel a sharp ...

In the well-known fable Androcles and the Lion, a tiny splinter brought the mighty lion to his knees. And if you’ve ever had a spiky splinter puncture your tender skin, you can relate. Getting a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California ER doctor Joe Whittington recommends using a clean, unused medicine syringe to create a suction to easily remove a ...

It can be a freeing feeling to shuck off your shoes and walk outside barefoot during the warm spring and hot summer until the deck sticks your exposed foot with a tiny, pointy gift: a splinter. But it ...

When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a little splinter in the child’s palm. “He must have gotten it between the ...

So how do you use a potato to remove a splinter? Here are the instructions from the Farmers’ Almanac: “Cut a potato into thin slices. Place one slice on the splinter (use the side without the skin).