system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If I have a splinter that I can't manage to take out, what does my body make of it ? Does it consume it ?
gpt
We are constantly making new skin cells and shedding the old ones, so there's a sort of 'current' running outward that will eventually push many foreign substances that are stuck in your epidermis outwards in a week or two. 

Those that pierce further than that will take one of three paths. One, your body will surround the foreign object in pus, then try to expel it like a zit. Two, your body will build up scar tissue around it and will actually leave it there to calcify. Three, it will soften, and your body will eventually absorb the intruder.