Removal of the hair with tweezers immediately stops the pain. This should be done as soon as possible, since any splinter can be a source of infection.

TO MANY OF US, GETTING A SPLINTER IN YOUR HAND THAT YOU JUST CAN’T GET OUT. YEAH, KIND OF ANNOYING, RIGHT? THE MAN HAD THIS HAPPEN TO HIM. ONLY THE SPLINTER WAS SO BIG HIS HAND GOT SO INFECTED ...

An infected ingrown hair may have led to a rare bacterial infection that hospitalized a 36-year-old Texan man. At one point he was declared brain dead with a 4 percent chance of survival.