[Closed] Pricking a finger.?

MrsGrahamS (Dr) says On the nail or the finger? Could be worth get it looked at.

if its under the nail then i would (is very painful if you dont and nail will prob fall off anyway)did it at work recently using a small drill when it went through I can only describe the pain as extreme....If its just a blood blister under the skin then i normally leave it (the dead skin protects it and will eventually come off.

Get it looked at i crushed mine in a trailer roof support a couple of years ago, thought i'd play the hard man and it would be all right. i woke up next morning and it was ****ing twice the size as the rest of the finger, i went to hospital had it x-rayed and it turns out i'd fractured it right on the tip, then the nurses brought out some contraption and burnt through the nail to release the pressure ow ow ow!!!

It's never a good idea to pierce a blood blister imo.

In my experience it just reseals and fills up with lymph fluid, which means the pressure remains the same (or even possibly more).

If you leave it as it is, hermetically sealed and protected, you will remove the risk of infection and the blood will eventually clot/scab, by which time, the new skin will have formed.

Under the nail is a different ball game imo, and any attempt to relieve the pressure should done under medical supervision, I would have thought.

Go to YouTube

Search for subungual haematoma (or hematoma)

Enjoy

Go to YouTube

Search for subungual haematoma (or hematoma)

Enjoy

Been to the hospital and told to keep it on ice for the weekend and go back Monday if it's not any better as it's probably broken. They won't drain it as it's not behind the nail, it's filling up the finger which will eventually drain itself apparently.

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go back Monday if it's not any better as it's probably broken

Has the fuse blown on their X-Ray machine then ............. hope to have fixed by monday, eh ?

Looks painful btw 😐

It's only a minor injuries department not a proper A&E so unless you're dying, you wait until Monday!

Ah right. Hope she feels better by monday. She could try holding her hand above her head for a while if the pain/throbbing gets unbearable.

it's filling up the finger which will eventually drain itself

go on, do it yourself

you want to, don't you?

just think of the pus

film it and post it on YouTube

I had someone stamp on my toe playing football which caused a massive build up of blood under my big toe nail
the pain was horrendous and I couldn't sleep so went to A&E at about 2am on a Saturday night i.e. with all the drunks 🙄
Nurse drilled through the nail with a threaded needle and struck oil after a couple of excruciating minutes
I laughed histerically from both the relief and the reaction of the nurse to getting a face full of toe blood 😛

I thought the build up of blood under a nail was normally drained by heating a straightened paperclip to red hot then a quick dab on the nail burning thru it to release the pressure.