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A 46-year old asked:

Can unsterilized tweezers be used on a splinter?

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A 23-year old female asked:

Can you share tweezers with a person without cleaning them off?

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A 27-year old asked:

Is there something I can put on a splinter to help draw it to the surface? My son has a splinter too deep to get with tweezers.

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A 33-year old female asked:

My 18mos old has a small thorn in his heal and I can not get it out with tweezers. What should I do? Will it come out on its own?

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A 41-year old asked:

How to get a tick out with tweezers?

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A 18-year old female asked:

Can i remove the spots with tweezers

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A 45-year old female asked:

What is the best way to sterilize tweezers?

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A 39-year old asked:

Please answer! could you get aids from contaminated tweezers?

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A 34-year old asked:

What if i numb my skin, will i still feel tweezers going in my back?

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A 45-year old asked:

If I leave a splinter in my finger will it eventually push itself out so I can get to it with tweezers?

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A 45-year old female asked:

Any tips on how to get this splinter out of my finger. It hurts and i keep squeezing and my tweezers don't work because i can't bring it to surface.

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A 18-year old female asked:

Isit possible to get HIV from using tweezers? Got my eyebrows done and I'm unsure if the tweezers we're sterilised

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A 32-year old female asked about a female:

If a Dr. used tweezers to take out fluid in wound, does that mean the Streptococcus anginosus infection has been eradicated at infection site?

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A 18-year old male asked:

HelloI had some really thin and small thread like thing on my penis and tried to take it out with tweezers.I made a 1mm*1mm scar and it's still in thereI gave up on taking it off it's not even that visibleBut what can i do to scar its bad lookin?

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A 30-year old asked:

What can I do if I poked my eye with tweezers?

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A 32-year old male asked:

Can plucking facial hair with tweezers cause the skin to change color around hairs that I tweeze leading to permanent damage? Thanks

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A 24-year old female asked about a 55-year old male:

Splinter (wood) under the fingernail that is stuck under full length of nail. Tried to soak it; wood expands. Can't reach w/ tweezers, advice?

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A 51-year old female asked:

Very thick white nasal discharge that is stretchy. It won't blow out I have to get it out with tweezers. What is this? I have never had it before.

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A 32-year old male asked:

Can plucking facial hair with tweezers cause the skin to change pigmentation color around hairs that I tweeze leading to permanent damage? Thanks

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A 17-year old male asked:

Picked off middle of wart w/ tweezers after it came back even after treatment was done. Now its black around edges and hole in middle. This normal?

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A 17-year old male asked:

Single smooth tiny white bump on foreskin. If you pinch the bump itself w/ tweezers it hurts like normal skin would. Been there 4 months. What is it?

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A female asked:

I recently had 2 ingrown hairs in the same spots , i pulled the ingrown hairs out with tweezers and squeezed the pus out and then shaved later that we?

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A 24-year old male asked:

If you pull a hair out of a mole with tweezers will it become cancerous?

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A 33-year old asked:

My 2 yo has glass too deep in foot to reach with tweezers . What can I do?

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A 16-year old female asked:

I have a medium hairy mole in my face . It's a problem if i pluck the hairs with tweezers?

2 doctor answers • 3 doctors weighed in

A 19-year old female asked:

Where else on body can salicylic acid be used as peeling?? Can it be used also on chins to treat the scars which caused by tweezers?

1 doctor answer • 4 doctors weighed in

A 27-year old male asked:

Finger against wood and got many little splinters and sterilized tweezers to take them out, Couldn't get them. Should I worry for serious infection?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 25-year old female asked:

Can hepatitis c be transmitted by sharing tweezers e.g at a beauty salon? I dont recall if the lady sanitized tweezers and I bled. Anxious plz help!

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 25-year old female asked:

Had my eyebrows tweezed in a beauty salon,shed some blood.Not sure if the lady sanitized the shared tweezers. Am I at risk of hep c or other diseases?

1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in

A 37-year old female asked:

I have a tiny splinter in my finger from a pencil. It's fully under skin and I can't get it out with needle or tweezers. Can I leave it? What do I do?

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