Aussie mum's genius first aid hack for removing splinters

There's nothing worse than a splinter, especially when you're a child, but the idea of having to dig one out with tweezers can often be worse.

Most children will only cry louder when you approach them with a needle and tweezers to get a splinter out the old fashion way.

Fortunately, one Aussie mum has found a new solution using a tool every parent has at home.

Sharing her first aid hack to Facebook, the unnamed woman revealed that she uses the syringes from children's Nurofen products to remove splinters, as well as other 'ouchies' for her kids.

"If you have ever bought Nurofen for Kids before, you would know it comes with this little thing to measure/administer the liquid medicine," she wrote.

She explained that the "magic" tube can also be used to pull out anything stuck in a child's skin, such as splinters, shards of glass and bee stingers in a "non-invasive, painless way".

"Simply place the outer tube hole over the wound site, press firmly against the skin, then pull the inside orange tube out really quickly," she instructed other parents.

"The vacuum in the tube should extract the offending item."

The change in air pressure inside the tube forces splinters and the like out from under the skin without having to go at your child's fingers with tweezers, something we're sure kids around Australia would be pleased to hear.

"After reading this post, you will be stuffing one into your First Aid Kit," the mum wrote of her new tool.

Plenty of other parents were on board too, filling the comments section with praise for the simple but brilliant hack.

"Such a great idea," one wrote.

"Kids panic if you go near them with needles and tweezers to get those things out."

Results may vary, however, as one mum wrote: "Tried this hack now my child thinks am going to take her tonsils out every time I try give her medicine."

Meanwhile other parents had found some more creative uses for the syringes.

"I used one to suck bread out of my toddlers nose when he decided to break up his sandwich and try eat it through his nostril," another mum said.