Call Your Doctor Now (night or day) If

• Deeply embedded FB (e.g., needle or toothpick in foot)
• FB has a barb (e.g., fish hook)
• FB is a BB
• FB is clear (glass or plastic)
• Pencil lead or other pigment left in skin after FB removed
• FB is causing severe pain
• You are reluctant to take out FB or can't get it out
• Site of sliver removal looks infected (redness, red streaks, swollen, pus)
• Fever occurs