Right bloody splinters.....

[girliefriend]

any tips for getting one out of my 6yo dds big toe??!!

She screams if I go anywhere near it and is a complete wimp pain phobic!!

Is there a cream or something that would help draw it out or am I just going to have to sit on her and attack the toe with tweezers? (not tempting )

Bread poultice.

A plaster or piece of sticky tape applied over splinter to soften skin and it should come out with same by the morning, other than that a soak/play in a warm bubble bath?

Oh my goodness soaking wet bread in a hankerchief tied to her foot - don't know why I didn't think of it sooner

Hey, it works!

I have a wimp pain phobic child just like yours. The only way I have ever got a splinter out of her has been to give her the tweezers and let her pull it out herself when it is bugging her enough that she felt it was worth it.

Ask for a drawing lotion to get splinters out at pharmacy put it in under a p,aster will be out by morning

Thankyou ladies, lots of ideas!! She is still complaining it is sore and I am beginning to wonder if it might actually be a verucca - very annoying!!!

Ah if a veruca - be prepared to apply the lotion every night and file the dead bits down every few days for a number of weeks. My DD had one right at the very end of her big toe, just painfully tucked under her nail. It took months of squirming and squealing but when it finally went that was it & healed very well...........