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| ivmeer |
Posted - Jul 19 2005 : 08:04:17 AM
I don't know where this came from, but the school nurse taught me this when I had a particularly nasty splinter in my finger when I was in the second grade.
Take a potato and peel it past the peel, so you have a white potato peeling. Put the peeling on the splinter and put a band-aid over it. Leave it for a few hours. When you take the band aid off, give the splinter a squeeze and it should pop right out.
Works like a charm. |
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| Grandma Mar |
Posted - Feb 18 2009 : 1:10:44 PM
Karin, I'm another one who'd like to know about using a potato on oil paintings. How? Do you use anything else afterwards? Please explain further. I have a few paintings I'd like to clean, and if a potato could do the trick, it'd be great. :-)
Mend and make do. - Old English Proverb
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| country lawyer |
Posted - Dec 04 2008 : 07:57:14 AM
I wish I had seen this last week. My daughter had an itty-bitty splinter that I had such a hard time getting out. It was painful for both of us. I'll remember the potato remedy and the glue too! Much better than the old needle method I used. |
| JessieMae |
Posted - Dec 03 2008 : 11:42:50 AM
I've heard that the same remedy works when you burn your finger in the kitchen, too. I've heard the potato "draws out" the burn. It'll still sting but won't blister. |
| Shi-anne |
Posted - Jun 23 2008 : 2:31:04 PM
I think what the potato does for the splinter, is pull it toward the surface as the potato skin begins to dry. When we were little, that is what mom used for pinkeye. Grate a potato and make a little patch with gauze and place over the infected eye for a few hours. As the potato dried it would also pull the infection out.
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| mommom |
Posted - Jun 03 2008 : 3:06:11 PM
My dad always put iodine on our splinters and before we knew it the splinter had come out of our skin far enough to be pulled out with tweezers. Still works today for all of us here! Susan |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 02 2008 : 08:20:30 AM
Yes, Karin - do you wipe it with a cloth afterward, or just wipe it with a potato slice?
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 02 2008 : 08:06:29 AM
Okay Karin- you have me intrigued...what does a potato do for oil paintings?
Alee
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| AuntPammy |
Posted - Jun 02 2008 : 07:54:35 AM
My mom use to put a piece of fatty bacon on the splintered area and wrap with a cloth, leave on overnite and just like magic the splinters would have made their way out. Sounds weird I know, but it would work.
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| electricdunce |
Posted - Jun 02 2008 : 07:38:14 AM
My son had a splinter that got infected when he was around three. He refused to soak it, let the doctor touch it, etc. I just happened to read an article in Smithsonian magazine that told of all the medicinal uses the Chinese have for honey. It is good for burns too, well I wrapped up that finger with a gauze pad with a big dollop of honey and sure enough, the next morning the infection was gone and the splinter came out easily. I never heard the potato one, and I live in Maine! Someone has been hiding these special techniques. Both my parents were artists, and I can remember cleaning the surface of old dirty oil paintings with potato slices. Another useless bit of information, that is my specialty.
Karin
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| farmgirlkate |
Posted - Jun 01 2008 : 6:47:41 PM
one of the tricks I learned (the hard way) out in west texas was good ol elmers school glue. when I got in cactus or got splinters from the barn, I would smear the area with a nice thick slather of elmers and let it dry. later I would pick at it and peel the 'skin' off (anyone do that in kindergarten?)-it took the splinters and cactus thorns with it.
Also I had one of my friends that works with glass use this and she said it took all the tiny glass splinters out the first time. Sometimes all you really needed to know about life does come from kindergarten!
"You only have what you give..."" |
| cecelia |
Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 4:51:11 PM
I think the potato works because potatoes are sort of "wet" - it probably puffs up your finger so the splinter works itself out, sort of like soaking it.
Cecelia
ce's farm
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 15 2005 : 4:47:06 PM
I have used elmers glue on hay splinters too...just a thin coat..let it dry and rip it off and the splinters come with it.
I will have to try to potato one too..never heard that one before..I wonder what the potato peeling does? Interesting!! I have got some that wern't really deep out by scraping across them with a credit card too...but I seem to get the dreaded hay splinters most of all!!
Jenny in Utah
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| WisGal35 |
Posted - Aug 15 2005 : 4:29:19 PM
These are great ideas. I'll be sure to try. We get all sorts of hay splinters.
My dad & my grandpa used to do nightly splinter checks on all the kids after a day at the lake at grandpa's lake house. Any splinters were promptly operated on with pocketknives! |
| Kim |
Posted - Jul 19 2005 : 4:20:35 PM
Scotch tape works wonders too for those little bitty ones
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
| Alee |
Posted - Jul 19 2005 : 08:16:45 AM
Thanks for the suggestion! I shall have to try that next time!
Ciao
Alee |
