Blackthorn injury

[Sevsafe]

Particularly agree about the tetanus jabs and medical attention. Do gloves help prevent this?!

[vduben]

Particularly agree about the tetanus jabs and medical attention. Do gloves help prevent this?!

only them overly massive gauntlets!!!!! but some times the black thorn still gets in, ive had one nr my thumb once and u couldnt move my hand for the rest of that day!!

[Sevsafe]

i know they take some stopping. these might be worth a look. not so cumbersome as the traditional heavy leather gauntlets http://www.sevsafe.co.uk/acatalog/Mapa_Professionnel_Gloves.html

[Sevsafe]

or in extreme cases http://www.sevsafe.co.uk/acatalog/Special_Applications.html

[Will]

I was wearing sthil gloves at the time, it went clean through.

24 hours later and my thumb is still very swollen, but not sore like yesterday.

I bathed it in hot water and savlon and took a couple of ivebrufen, it seems to be doing the trick.

[Rich Rule]

I had one in the top of my knuckle which kept coming and going for a couple of weeks. I soaked a pad with sugar water and dressed with elastoplast tape. leaving over night seemed to do the trick.

[digga]

sugar and soap thing works got told it by an old guy i use to work with but seemed to work with normal sugar just as well used it twice now worked both times

[Pete Mctree]

toothpaste works as well as anything, draws out the crap and drys it up. Even works on those zits!

[vduben]

Even works on those zits!

naa it dont!!!! old wives tale!!

[bob]

pete should know