**Hi all! Hoping someone that had experienced this before could shine some light.**
3 days ago i stepped on a sea urchin. 3 days passed and its still painful and cant put my full weight on that foot.
I just dont know if the spines are still in or not. Should i start cutting the skin around them and see if i can get them out?
I read that because spines are made of calcium, your body eventually absorbs them, is this true? What would you do in cases like this?
Edit: Will be arriving home tomorrow. Will buy the unguents mentioned and try to deal with it that way.
Needle and alcohol.
Yeah I know it hurts but it will heal by itself. Try to use tweezers to remove it
You have to pee on it
My dog stepped on a bee 😩
I pick them out with a needle
Soak your foot in hot water for a while and afterwards when the skin loosens up try to get all the spines out with tweezers and/or a hypodermic needle. If you can’t pull them out go to a local pharmacy and get some ammonium bituminosulfonate (ihtiol), in Croatian it’s called “amonijev sulfogirodalat” or more commonly “crna mast”. That should help with drawing out the rest of those pesky spines.
Stepped on these little suckers quite a few times. Got some in my foot right now, almost two months old lol. I always just take a needle, sterilize it with a lighter, pick some skin off and then pull them out with a needle. You don’t have to worry, if they stay in it will hurt for a few days and with time it will dissapear.
Go to the pharmacy, say you stepped on an urchin. And ask for “black ointment”. Someone else will have to do the exact name search for you.
Helped me a couple years back.
You just put it on when you are gonna lie down for 2-3 hours.
Damn bro, we’d believe you even without the photo…
Had like around 45 in my heel as a kid. Man up hehe and wait for them to come out
Also if they never do get out (and stop hurting), they’ll disintegrate within a couple of weeks.
You can use the needle to cut some skin so the needle gets put on its own, it doesn’t even hirt if you know how to do it but of course you need someone to help you
I stepped in a one. The solution for me is that u but bacin on your foot (the part with the most fat) and u tie bandages around it and go to sleep with it. In the mornign they should be stuck to the bacon.
What I would do whenever that happened to me is let the wound infect. Then I would squeeze them out with the pus and clean the wound. That’s what they taught me around here when I was a kid. The infections were very weak and it worked every time.
In my experience, trying to get them out with the tweezers would crush the quills/spines.
Put olive oil on your foot and wrap it in cloth, it will come out by itself the next morning.
We used to put raw tomato on it when we were kids – learned later its Because of fruit acids (AHA). They dissolve surface skin cells so it’s easier to pick the spears out with a sterilized needle. Good luck, ichthyol / ihtiol (crna mast) is also a good idea!
Where did you step on it ?
Piss onit it will come out by itself
Určin
Proć’e
First of all, to stop the infection (in future, you already have an ongoing one), you need to pull/cut out everything using syringe and clean it with soap and water. Most of the time you are good to go if you don’t have any leftovers. You could also do that now and use appropriate antibiotic ointment because it seems that an infection has started because the wound was not cleaned properly.
Feet 🥵🥵🥵🥵
Cut Your legg off
We used to pee on that place for few days and it would come out. But your skin already healed so they are stuck inside.
Same happened to me, i just grabbed a needle and heated it u so it kills the bacteria and slowly started to dig those needles out. It was painful but it’s better than letting your foot go red and painful on touch
When I was 6 years old on an island in Croatia, I found a sea urchin in shallow water and was showing off to my parents how “cool” I am by jumping over him over and over.
I made a fatal mistake. Landed *right* on him with my foot. That pain is forever ingrained in my memory. I have no advice besides “live with your mistake”
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**Hi all! Hoping someone that had experienced this before could shine some light.**
3 days ago i stepped on a sea urchin. 3 days passed and its still painful and cant put my full weight on that foot.
I just dont know if the spines are still in or not. Should i start cutting the skin around them and see if i can get them out?
I read that because spines are made of calcium, your body eventually absorbs them, is this true? What would you do in cases like this?
Edit: Will be arriving home tomorrow. Will buy the unguents mentioned and try to deal with it that way.
Needle and alcohol.
Yeah I know it hurts but it will heal by itself. Try to use tweezers to remove it
You have to pee on it
My dog stepped on a bee 😩
I pick them out with a needle
Soak your foot in hot water for a while and afterwards when the skin loosens up try to get all the spines out with tweezers and/or a hypodermic needle. If you can’t pull them out go to a local pharmacy and get some ammonium bituminosulfonate (ihtiol), in Croatian it’s called “amonijev sulfogirodalat” or more commonly “crna mast”. That should help with drawing out the rest of those pesky spines.
Stepped on these little suckers quite a few times. Got some in my foot right now, almost two months old lol. I always just take a needle, sterilize it with a lighter, pick some skin off and then pull them out with a needle. You don’t have to worry, if they stay in it will hurt for a few days and with time it will dissapear.
Go to the pharmacy, say you stepped on an urchin. And ask for “black ointment”. Someone else will have to do the exact name search for you.
Helped me a couple years back.
You just put it on when you are gonna lie down for 2-3 hours.
Damn bro, we’d believe you even without the photo…
Had like around 45 in my heel as a kid. Man up hehe and wait for them to come out
Also if they never do get out (and stop hurting), they’ll disintegrate within a couple of weeks.
You can use the needle to cut some skin so the needle gets put on its own, it doesn’t even hirt if you know how to do it but of course you need someone to help you
I stepped in a one. The solution for me is that u but bacin on your foot (the part with the most fat) and u tie bandages around it and go to sleep with it. In the mornign they should be stuck to the bacon.
What I would do whenever that happened to me is let the wound infect. Then I would squeeze them out with the pus and clean the wound. That’s what they taught me around here when I was a kid. The infections were very weak and it worked every time.
In my experience, trying to get them out with the tweezers would crush the quills/spines.
Put olive oil on your foot and wrap it in cloth, it will come out by itself the next morning.
We used to put raw tomato on it when we were kids – learned later its Because of fruit acids (AHA). They dissolve surface skin cells so it’s easier to pick the spears out with a sterilized needle. Good luck, ichthyol / ihtiol (crna mast) is also a good idea!
Where did you step on it ?
Piss onit it will come out by itself
Určin
Proć’e
First of all, to stop the infection (in future, you already have an ongoing one), you need to pull/cut out everything using syringe and clean it with soap and water. Most of the time you are good to go if you don’t have any leftovers. You could also do that now and use appropriate antibiotic ointment because it seems that an infection has started because the wound was not cleaned properly.
Feet 🥵🥵🥵🥵
Cut Your legg off
We used to pee on that place for few days and it would come out. But your skin already healed so they are stuck inside.
Same happened to me, i just grabbed a needle and heated it u so it kills the bacteria and slowly started to dig those needles out. It was painful but it’s better than letting your foot go red and painful on touch
When I was 6 years old on an island in Croatia, I found a sea urchin in shallow water and was showing off to my parents how “cool” I am by jumping over him over and over.
I made a fatal mistake. Landed *right* on him with my foot. That pain is forever ingrained in my memory. I have no advice besides “live with your mistake”