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How do you treat an ingrown toenail?

How do I treat a bad infection that resulted in a home-ingrown-toenail removal attempt?

  • I have a friend who hates going to the doctor but had this bad ingrown toenail. He decided to fix it himself. He told me he somehow got into his toe and pulled out a long thin piece ...show more

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    Hi, I used to help my wife out whenever she got an ingrown toenail. It can be quite painful but it has to be done or it will get worse and the infection can get down into the bone. The infection your friend has was probably caused by not having everything clean (sterile) before and after he tried to get the ingrown out. There could still be a piece of the nail in there that has to come out. The infection can be treated by soaking the toe to get it soft enough. You need to drain the bump, with a needle or cuticle cutters and clean out the area as good as you can. After the infected area is opened up a bit and cleaned out, put triple antibiotic ointment on it and bandage. This should be checked and changed a few times a day. There are several types of pain medication. If you can't do this or it's too painful, he will have to see a doctor to have it done. This is a short summary of the information I included in my site below.

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That infection is gonna get worse if he dont go to the doctor for internal antibiotic medication. Antibiotic ointment is only useful for open cuts where the you can actually apply the ointment to do any good. If he starts filling chills and getting fevers he needs to go to the hospital as soon as possible cause thats a sign the infection has begun to spread through his body. The only thing thats gonna kill the the bacteria inside his toe is antibiotic medication. Hope your friend gets better, oh soaking the foot in warm water with salt is only good for soothing down the inflammation.

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After using your regimen, clean out all the pus, resoak in peroxide ONLY, for 10 minutes. After it is dry apply tinture of iodine or mercurochrome (my favorite). BUT, if not better in 2 days go to podiatrist. I have nail psorasis and i am always having to pull mine out, fileing down the thicked nails. The first time i got an infection, this worked for mine..so i use it a lot... Good luck and I hope he doesn't have to have a physician. My opinon of them and their office help is not printable..

grace

try an epsom salt foot bath

Chase

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