Blister on foot!! Should I pop it and will it go away? Is it ok if I put ice.

Puncture with a sterilized needle, then cover with a bandage.

Leave it alone

The fluid underneath a blister is a protective fluid to guard against injuring the raw skin beneath. Yiu can puncture it to drain the fluid off but do not peel off the skin covering. The new skin underneath needs to heal for about a week and you risk infection.

Will it hurt allot? WHen I touched it it feels soft and one part feels a tad bit hard

If you insert the STERILIZED needle in the right place it shouldn’t hurt at all.

You want to go from the edge sideways and parallel to the rest of the skin (instead of straight down) and then through to the other side. This gives you two small punctures so you can squeeze the fluid out.

Then cover with a sterile bandage. This is important because you want to avoid infection.

When it fills up again is when it will be painful again so just keep squeezing out fluid whenever necessary.

Whatever you do, DO NOT remove the skin. This is what’s protecting the new skin forming underneath as well as keeping out infection.

In a few days, it should stop refilling with fluid so just leave it alone until the old skin falls off on it’d own.

I usually didn’t do the fluid draining during the day when I was walking on it but rather at night as often as needed and especially just before falling asleep.

The main reason I chose to do the piercing and draining is because most of the pain from a blister is the pressure exerted by all that fluid. When you drain it , it lessens the pain. You just need to be careful and meticulous to avoid infection.

@Rarebear

I realize that your advice, as a medical professional, to leave it alone will definitely guard against infection and its attendant problems and is likely the best solution.

But I am such a chickenshit about pain and in my younger days have had some really huge blisters that were so painful I couldn’t sleep at night.

So, I did the second best thing and did everything I could to keep out infection. And fortunately I never had to deal with that.

But, all in all, your advice is the most medically sound. I’m just a wuss :)

Will it heal by it self and what if I poked it striaght down is that why it hurts?

Here is a leaflet from a quality source which will give you advice. The main advice is the same as our resident medic @Rarebear – leave it alone.

If you poke straight down you’ll go into the rest of your foot. Why would you want to be in more pain and danger? Don’t do that.

It hurts because of the pressure of the fluid buildup. Relieving the fluid buildup will relieve MOST OF the pain.

But whatever you do, don’t poke the needle straight down. Go sideways and MAKE SURE it is sterilized.

Better yet, take @Rarebears advice and leave it alone. After all, he is a Dr. in real life.

Take something for the pain and let it be.

@Buttonstc Oh I poked it striaght down! is that why it is super pain full? Im a whuss too and is side ways less painfull

Why the hell would you poke it straight down when the first time I posted I said to go in sideways? Yes, that’s why it hurts more.

At this point I think you should take a couple of Advil, put a sterile bandage on to cover it and LEAVE IT ALONE.

You’ve done enough damage for one night, don’t you think?

Read the leaflet I linked to above. And leave it alone!

@Buttonstc Idk I was tired and never had blisters before XD lolol.I nailed it

I will never give anybody medical advice over the Internet ever again.

Not that I usually do anyway but this seemed so minor. Oh well, live and learn. Never again.

Blisters are natures bandages. Leave it alone as long as you can. The sooner it pops the longer it will take to heal.

Leave it alone. Cover it with a bandaid so it doesn’t get irritated by your shoes.

If shoes caused the problem then wear “tape” or band aids when you wear those shoes to prevent a future blister until the shoes break. If the shoes don’t break in within a few wearing get rid of them.

If the blister is not from breaking in shoes, but from a shoe being too lose, you can try to add a pad to the insole to tighten up the shoe, or you might have to forget those shoes, or always wear something on your skin to guard against blisters. Blisters will turn to calluses and then growths on the foot if the shoes are poor fitting, to toughen your foot and/or try to fit the shoe.

Don’t get rid of all the “dry” skin on your foot if you get pedicures. Exfoliate a little is fine, but never shave your feet. If you get rid of all the dry, tough, skin your feet will blister and callus again to toughen up, and the process is painful.

Typo: loose not lose.

Blister is nature’s bandage. Don’t break it.

These are amazing

One up on nature.

@ibstubro hydrocolloid dressings work well for blisters but usually only if the skin on top is broken. They work by sucking up the liquid and drying it out but the dressing has to be in contact with the fluid.

Based on my experience and what I’ve read, @JLeslie has it exactly right. The less you do the better. Just be sure it’s well padded and keep an eye on it while it dries up.

OIC, @Lightlyseared.
I love hydrocolloid bandages, but I’ve never used on on a blister. I just knew they made them for blisters.

Then I’d pop the blister.
Hell, I’d likely pop it anyway.

I’m still just marveling that anyone over the age of 12 would even ask what to do about a blister. haha

@Coloma I would guess they (the people over 12 asking the question) are very lucky never having had dealt with it before. Or, maybe they have, but were just looking for advice. A possible better way of dealing with it than they had before.

Why are you marveling that anyone over the age of 12 would even ask what to do about a blister, @Coloma?
It’s not as if the responders were united with one answer.

@JLeslie @ibstubro

It just seems to me that most people would have had some experience with a little ol’ blister at some point or another. Hey. the Oi had to be admonished to leave ot alone after not heeding the advice and poking it dead center with a needle haha
Never mind..maybe I’m a little irritable tonight.

@Coloma I think it’s gender related.

“Gender related”?

Whose gender? The poster or @Coloma?

I honestly don’t understand what gender has to do with any of it, but….

I’d just like to illustrate the point of leaving a blister alone. I was gardening two days ago and got two blisters: on my little finger and thumb. The little finger one burst and the top came off. It has still not healed. The thumb one was spongy at first then cleared up within a day. Here’s a picture I have just taken.

would you giyts want a picture of it right now?

I’m slightly tempted as I do like a treat but I’m a bit scared that you’ll be living up to your username

@Stinley hahaha, good one.

@SepticSean Are you still alive?

I think it depends what kind of blister and where it’s located.

@Coloma Still alive can walk now and it is allot smaller but it still a tiny bit big.Will the liquid go down on its own?

Yes. It will dry up and scab over. Keep it clean and dry.

Yes. You can put some antibacterial ointment and a bandaid to protect it. The ointment will help prevent a scar if you tore it badly. Although, blisters usually don’t leave a scar.

NOW one of these is in order, and will work amazingly.

One bandage, 3–4 days, no worries.