How to get rid of ingrown toenails?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Nails on legs can grow, can hurt, deform and develop incorrectly. Therefore, you need to know what are the causes of nail diseases and how to cope with them.
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Growth of nails
Nails very often grow into the skin - this is a fairly common disease. An ingrown nail can lead to bacterial and viral infections, because through the wound to the skin very easily penetrate pathogens. Therefore, it is necessary to remove that part of the nail that has grown into the skin. Otherwise, infection of the body can turn into a chronic process, as well as inflammation.
What to do to prevent the nail from growing into the skin?
First of all, you need to properly cut your nails. They need to be cut in such a way that the ends of the nails do not round off - this helps the nail plate grow into the skin. Ideal nail cutting - in a straight line. Then its edges will be easily visible, the process of nail ingrowth will be easier to control.
How to properly cut your nails?
Nails need to be cut not to the meat itself, but that between the edge of the nail and the skin there is a strip. If the nail is cut incorrectly, too short, the nail plate can become thicker, change its color, turn yellow or blacken.
Such a nail very quickly becomes prone to infections, fungal diseases. If the process is started, not to treat the nail on time, an inflammatory process with pus can begin.
Then a person can get fever, pulling the pain in his finger. The surgeon's intervention may be necessary. To prevent this before, it is better to control the process of nail growth.
How to treat an ingrown nail?
To the nail grow normally, be careful that the skin underneath it does not become inflamed. But even if this happens, consult a doctor instead of using the money that is advertised on TV.
Be sure to drink vitamins, they will help your skin feel fine, and if you have to use liquid vitamins for external use, they should not fall into the wound area - drip funds on the nail plate and around it. For the skin and the treatment of ingrown nails, vitamin B, A, E and D are especially good. This improves the condition of the nails and skin, as well as overall health.
Nails and Fungus
Infected nails can be treated with antifungal drugs. It is important that at this time they do not get water, because then the fungus spreads wherever he wants, often - on the skin and fingernails of other fingers.
If antifungal methods do not help, you should contact a surgeon to remove the infected nail. If the nail removal is done by modern methods, it will not hurt and quickly.
Of course, after this procedure, a rehabilitation process will be required. On the site of the removed nail will grow a new one, but not immediately - first you need to heal the skin under it. This is done with the help of anti-inflammatory and vitamin drugs, antibiotics are possible.
That the nail did not grow - alternative means
It is necessary to fill the napatechnik with oil (natural cow). Every evening before going to bed, he should be worn on that toe, where the nail is grown. Remove urine from the urine and rinse your finger with warm water and soap to remove traces of fat. After this, the finger can be lubricated with a nutritious cream so that the skin does not dry after soap. This procedure should be done for 14 consecutive days. The nail must be softened, then it can be cut off, stopping suffering.
If scissors do this it will be difficult, use tweezers to help. To prevent infection on the wound, it can be applied hygienic plaster.
Let your feet be healthy, and your nails - smooth, beautiful and shiny.