I crushed the tip of my finger on day in an old fashined scissors gate elevator (ow!) The nail instantly turned black. I tried drilling through the nail with a needle, but was a little discourages at the progress so I simply inserted the needle under the nail from the front. Boy did it releave the pressure as blood squirted all over the place, but it felt soooo much better. The nail at this point was not attached to the nail bed and there was no pain from the needle. A couple of days later the nail proceeded to curl up away from the nail bed as it dried out. I borrowed a nail file from a female co-worker and remove it.

I have also used the ziplock with a pin hole in the corner as an improvised irrigation syringe. I was also talking to an army medic and he said that in Iraq the used to simply punch a hole in the bottle (peroxide, water, provodone???) and simply squeeze the bottle to irrigate.

Bill