Fishhook Injuries: Check Your Symptoms

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Check Your Symptoms

If you answer yes to any of the following questions, click on the "Yes" in front of the question for information about how soon to see a health professional.

Review health risks that may increase the seriousness of your symptoms.

Yes

Do you have a fishhook in your eyelid or near your eye, but it has not punctured your eyeball? Note: Do not try to remove the hook.

Yes

Do you have a fishhook in a joint, a bone, a muscle, or deep in the skin? Note: Do not try to remove the hook.

Yes

Are you unable to remove a fishhook using home treatment?

Yes

Do you have bleeding from a fishhook injury?

Yes

Do you have numbness or tingling near the site of a fishhook injury?

Yes

Has the skin near a fishhook injury turned pale, white, blue, or cold?

Yes

Are you unable to move normally after a fishhook injury?

Yes

Do you think you have an infection?

Yes

Do you think you may need stitches?

Yes

Are you unable to clean your fishhook injury using home treatment?

Yes

Do you know or think you need a tetanus shot?

If a visit to a health professional is not needed immediately, see the Home Treatment section for self-care information.

Last updated:	July 06, 2007
Author:	Jan Nissl, RN, BS
Reviewed By:	William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, H. Michael O'Connor, MD - Emergency Medicine
Editors:	Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer