Ingrown toenail

Unfortunately, this painful disease as an ingrown toenail - frequent. The nail plate of the big toe nail grows into the roller with one or two sides. It starts with inflammation of the nail fold, there is redness and swelling.

If you join an infection under the nail plate that stands out the pus with blood. And this is dangerous, especially when poor circulation in the legs, diabetes.

Even in the initial stage of ingrown nail is difficult wearing shoes, there is a constant pain when walking.

Most often, ingrowing nail in young people and adolescents, less common in children and the elderly.

The cause of the disease may be hereditary, flat feet, injury, fungal infection of nails, improper pedicures, wearing shoes with a narrow toe.

What to do?


- At the first stage of ingrown nail should switch to wearing comfortable shoes to avoid pressure on the big toe of the foot. Experts advise to even resemble a while barefoot, if you can not leave the house, if this is not possible, then vilified shoes with open toes of the foot.

- Of course, it is wiser to consult a doctor, but in our hospitals usually just under anesthesia remove the nail, then make dressings and injections.

Perhaps that is why so popular folk remedies treatments that help most.

1. Mix glycerin and acetic essence 1:1, stir and pipetted into the wells of burying thumb day for one month. Peel the corners fingers dry up, the pain gradually subsided.

2. 4 tbsp. spoons of chamomile flowers pour 1.5 liters of boiling water in a thermos, press 1 hour, drain and into the warm infusion to lower a sore thumb for 15 minutes. Wipe up and carefully remove the ingrown portion of the nail from the soft tissue under the raised edges to enclose a small cotton swab moistened with tincture of iodine. This method helps when the nail is too deeply rooted in the flesh.

3. Over the counter yoduksun and lubricate them side wells thumb several times a day. It softens the edge of his ingrown nail and antibiotic ointment, sold over the counter without a prescription. But you need to lubricate daily.

4. Chew the core of two walnuts, put on nail, wrap in foil, put on a sock. Do every day for the night until cured.

5. Lightly steam the nail and before going to bed to put on the thumb fingertip full of good butter, put on cotton socks. The course of treatment 3 weeks. When the pain subsides, you need to gently lift the edge of the ingrown nail and put a piece of gauze.

6. On ingrown nails gently to a file the nail hole in the middle, as far as possible, of a width of about 2 cm nail every effort to throw this groove, and after about a week the inflammation stops. Then you need to cut your nails so as not to cut corners.

But it's best not to bring to ingrown nail and do prevention.

- During the nail clippers do not round off the ends and cut your nails too short. On the thumb nail should protect fingers from the edge of the friction with the shoes.

- Do not wear tight shoes.

- Only use an experienced pedicure.

- It is useful to rub a cream containing vitamin A.

- Two or three times weekly bath of sea water or common salt. Dissolve 1 tbsp. spoonful of salt to 1 liter of warm water and soak your feet in the water for 15-20 minutes. Good dry with a towel.

- And, of course, observe the foot hygiene, daily wash them with warm water, preferably at night to rub vegetable oil, flexing his fingers and feet from the bottom up. This improves circulation.

- Sledkov, socks, stockings should always be clean.