When your kids get splinters, it can be a messy and difficult situation to try and remove them. Kids are usually scared and worried that you are going to hurt them if you try to use a tweezer or something along those lines to remove it.
Sometimes, the splinter itself hurts them so based that they do not want to remove it on their own, either. But thankfully we now have a great parenting hack to get us through this moment.
Parents, the unsung superheroes of the world, always come up with ways to solve their kid's problems.
A splinter is something that has to be removed before it can create an infection or go deeper into the skin. Luckily, one mom found a brilliant way to get it done.
Showcasing where the splinter was on her child, she said that it's pretty simple to do. You just need something that every parent has lying around in their house—a medicine syringe.
Tanya shares that you should cut the top of the plastic syringe off so that it's open and it's a large circle instead of a small point. This will make it easier to suck the splinter out.
Essentially, you want to put pressure on the hand around the splinter so that you are squeezing the skin to push the splinter out of the hand or other area of the body. The splinter will eventually make its way out.
Pulling the top of the syringe makes it so that the splinter comes up and into the plastic part and out of the hand or body. Then, you can see just how big the piece was that was inside of your child.
Whereas using a sharp object may hurt your child because you are poking and prodding around, Tayna says that her kids don't feel this at all. Sometimes, it may hurt for the splinter to come out, depending on how big.
Some people in the comments said that there is no way that this could work and be true. May did not believe Tanya and thought she had cropped her TikTok video to make it look like it works.
While mowing the lawn, she shared she had gotten a metal shard in her own finger that was super noticeable. She decided to re-record the video and use the hack on herself to show that you can remove it from your own hand, too.
Using her non-dominant hand, Tanya suctioned the area around her splinter and was able to apply enough pressure to squeeze it out. She did push a bit more to get it loose.
“Wait wait, NO NEEDLES? My mother would do ‘surgery’ and pick it out with a Goddamn sewing needle,” one person shared in a comment on her TikTok video.
Anything is better than listening to our kids scream as we grab the tweezers from the cabinet. There's no harm in trying something new, right? Thanks to TikTok moms, we are totally safe.
