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Stepped on a piece of broken glass. pulled it out of my foot but not sure if some small shard might be left in. could it get into my bloodstream?

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OK: Removing the piece of glass that you did is highly likely to have removed all of the glass and there is no chance of a small piece of glass getting into your bloodstream

Answered 3/30/2019

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