Glass shards?!
Question: Glass shards!?
i cut myself with some glass shards (really small) accidentally today!. how do i know if i have a shard in it or its just a cut!? i can see a little bruise purplish/red spot!. is it a shard!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
You need to go to a doctor pronto!. Glass shards can be extremely hazardous!.
Unlike a thorn, which is forced out of your body by the natural processes (such as by forming a sore which weakens the skin, then the pus forces the object out of your skin), glass works oftentimes in the opposite manner!.
What hapens is that if they are microscopic or small enough to not see with your eyes, the shards can work their way deeper into your skin!. Glass does not present the same foreign intrusion signals to your body's detection system, because it is glass!. Therefore, two things occur, but not absolutely: a) the shards can work deeper, and b) the body will then try to heal itself around the shards!. And that causes a third problem c) it is possible but not guaranteed that the tiny glass shards can work their way into a blood vessel and float in your blood to cause more problems elsewhere!.
I say possible, because I do not have any knowledge of this ever happening as a skin penetration, and you do not say what part of your body this injury happened to!. But I do know that glass shards ingested through the mouth can do just that, and that has been documented in cases such as in car crashes!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Unlike a thorn, which is forced out of your body by the natural processes (such as by forming a sore which weakens the skin, then the pus forces the object out of your skin), glass works oftentimes in the opposite manner!.
What hapens is that if they are microscopic or small enough to not see with your eyes, the shards can work their way deeper into your skin!. Glass does not present the same foreign intrusion signals to your body's detection system, because it is glass!. Therefore, two things occur, but not absolutely: a) the shards can work deeper, and b) the body will then try to heal itself around the shards!. And that causes a third problem c) it is possible but not guaranteed that the tiny glass shards can work their way into a blood vessel and float in your blood to cause more problems elsewhere!.
I say possible, because I do not have any knowledge of this ever happening as a skin penetration, and you do not say what part of your body this injury happened to!. But I do know that glass shards ingested through the mouth can do just that, and that has been documented in cases such as in car crashes!.Www@Answer-Health@Com