treatment ingrown toenail?
Madhuri asked:
i have an ingrown toenail problem from last 5 years , i took surgery 4 times and once remove the whole toenail but after that also i have ingrown nail problem again n again , can anyone help me? how I get rid of it? pz help me i am in problem.
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i have an ingrown toenail problem from last 5 years , i took surgery 4 times and once remove the whole toenail but after that also i have ingrown nail problem again n again , can anyone help me? how I get rid of it? pz help me i am in problem.
Ge The Best Toenail Treatment
i have had this problem before but gladly it is no more a bother for me.
i went to surgery the 3rd time before i was told that they could burn the edges of the nail to prevent it from growing that direction………. it worked great. i have been free of ingrown toenails now for 15 yrs or more.
I had a similar problem when I was a teenager, but I dont know if this will help or not:
One way to keep it from becoming ingrown is to use toenail clippers to cut a v shape in the center-top of the nail every once in a while. This sometimes allows the nail to grow without growing into the skin.
Another way is to trim every day. If you even see that the nail is beginning to ingrow, immediately use a file to pull it away from the skin and clip the nail.
Hope this helps…people that have never had this problem do not realize how painful it can be.
loki
Sorry to hear you’re in the boat I once rode in. It isn’t fun, is it? I’ve had the roots burned so that it wouldn’t grow back… but it did, anyway. I got to the point where each and every time I trimmed my toenails, I had to dig out a chunk of nail. Each. And. Every. Time.
Maddening.
Anyway, it’s all in the past for me, and I’ll try to make it that way for you, too, if I can. One thing you do–just as soon as you notice the nail’s getting tender–is to take a very small amount of cotton and stuff it between the skin and the nail. It’ll be uncomfortable at first, but it gets easier in time. No need to stuff the cotton physically into the toe; we’re only looking to shove the flesh of the toe back away from the nail so that the nail has nothing to dig into. Throw a bandaid on it to keep the cotton in place. Two tricks I used to make things easier? Use the edge of a pair of tweezers as your stuffing instrument, so that you can pick the cotton away if you situate it wrong. Also, use Neosporin or Vaseline in between the cotton and flesh to keep the skin from inflaming. (It also helps to ease the cotton in place.) You’ll have to keep doing this daily until the nail grows out–but come on, right? If it eventually keeps you from having to dig out chunks of nail, it’s gotta be worth it.
Once the nail’s grown out, you need to practice some restraint with the nail trimmers. Cut your nails square–resist the temptation to trim in a semi-circle. There’s a layer of nail you can’t see, just under that fold of flesh at the edge of the toe. Trimming in a semi-circle forms a little hook in that layer of nail, and that’s what’ll getcha. Trim your nails square, so that there are still whites left at the edges.
Hope this helps! Ingrowns suck.