What Happens If You Don't Take out a Splinter?
Splinters are gross, but you might want to watch this before grabbing the tweezers. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scisho...
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here's a prickly choice for you would you rather have a tiny shard of broken glass of stuck in your fingertip or a little sliver of wood if you had to pick you might prefer the wood right after all wood is softer and natural and glass like nothing but sharp edges so the fact is as far as your immune system of concerned splinters made of organic matter can pose a bigger threat than a chip of glass or sliver of metal of course when anything gets under your skin your body's immune system will react to the invasion the tissues around the injury will get inflamed becoming red and swollen as blood and immune cells rush to the site but if it's a big object like a splinter and the cells can't break it up and get it out the next best ...
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here's a prickly choice for you would you rather have a tiny shard of broken glass of stuck in your fingertip or a little sliver of wood if you had to pick you might prefer the wood right after all wood is softer and natural and glass like nothing but sharp edges so the fact is as far as your immune system of concerned splinters made of organic matter can pose a bigger threat than a chip of glass or sliver of metal of course when anything gets under your skin your body's immune system will react to the invasion the tissues around the injury will get inflamed becoming red and swollen as blood and immune cells rush to the site but if it's a big object like a splinter and the cells can't break it up and get it out the next best ...
