Question about a BLISTER

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#1 BEAN_LARD_MULCH
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Should i pop this blister thats on my finger? its about 1cm in length, and its filled with a clear liquid....
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#2 users-name
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if its a blood blister just leave it there, it will dry up
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#3 BEAN_LARD_MULCH
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if its a blood blister just leave it there, it will dry upusers-name

No, I got it from a burn. 

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#4 xzemnes567
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I would pop it;)
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#5 joey101010
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Popping a blister doesn't sound healthy.
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#6 HostileEffect
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Don't pop burn blisters... if you were smart and put your hand in cold water then you wouldn't be in this mess!
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#7 badaboom187
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dont do it
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#8 NathanHawkins
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pop it or medicate it (the medication through covering, sterilizing, and such is normally suggested from those who know more about those types of situations).  were it I...i'd pop it in 'bout two seconds.
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#9 Manly-manly-man
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Pop it, rinse it, cover it in neo sporin and put a band-aid over it. Problem solved.
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#10 Ogloff
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If is is small enough to be unobtrusive to you just leave it.  Otherwise pop it.  Better use a steralized needle or tack.  Working at a fast foo drestaurant for 2 years, i have had my share of burns.  It heals just as fast popped or unpopped
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#11 xzemnes567
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one time i used a needle to pop my blister it made a hole i  could  shoot water

from it

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#12 BEAN_LARD_MULCH
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one time i used a needle to pop my blister it made a hole i could shoot water

from it

xzemnes567

ugh 

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Should i pop this blister thats on my finger? its about 1cm in length, and its filled with a clear liquid....BEAN_LARD_MULCH

Yes.

1. Get a needle.
2. Sterilize that needle. Either put it over a flame for a little bit or use alcohol.
3. At the very edge of the blister, prick the blister and remove the needle.
4. Squeeze out all the clear liquid. This is puss. What happens on a blister is that the skin is actually removed from the tissue. It fills with puss and other bodily fluids. If not drained, it can become infected. If you use a dirty needle, however, it will become infected.
5. Put some ointment on a bandaid and bandage the blister.

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#14 Ogloff
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[QUOTE="BEAN_LARD_MULCH"]Should i pop this blister thats on my finger? its about 1cm in length, and its filled with a clear liquid....slateman_basic

Yes.

1. Get a needle.
2. Sterilize that needle. Either put it over a flame for a little bit or use alcohol.
3. At the very edge of the blister, prick the blister and remove the needle.
4. Squeeze out all the clear liquid. This is puss. What happens on a blister is that the skin is actually removed from the tissue. It fills with puss and other bodily fluids. If not drained, it can become infected. If you use a dirty needle, however, it will become infected.
5. Put some ointment on a bandaid and bandage the blister.

It actually isn't pus.  Pus is a combination of living and dead white blood cells.  If the blister were to have pus in it

it would already be infected.  The clear liquid is you blood plasma and lymph fluid.  It has some platlets in it so it is sticky when drying up.

And it is safer to leave the blister un-popped.  The skin provides a barrier.

 

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#15 xzemnes567
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so did you pop it ?