In our life, we always encounter the condition that fingernails and toenails grow into the flesh. In fact, this is a typical symptom of paronychia. Is the process of pulling nails very painful and painful? What should we do when fingernails grow into the flesh?
How can the disease be cured
In fact, toenails grow into the flesh, which is called "paronychia" in medicine, that is, the inflammatory skin disease that occurs in the groove where the edge of the nail contacts the nail.
Paronychia often occurs in people who play sports such as football, trim their nails excessively, and deal with water for a long time. The common symptoms are swelling and pain on both sides of the toes. In severe cases, there will be suppuration, finger / toenail ulcer, etc. and even further complicated with gray nails!
Although the removal of the whole toenail by operation is a common treatment for paronychia, due to the lack of awareness of the disease in many patients, the postoperative paronychia will come back again and suffer a lot.
In order to cure paronychia thoroughly, it is not the first choice and necessary to pull out the nail. It is the most important to do the following two things well:
Anti-inflammatory and bactericidal
For paronychia, to do a good job of anti-inflammatory sterilization can avoid the spread of infection, and reduce the possibility of concurrent nail plastering.
Correct the growth of toenail edge
People with paronychia will have ingrown nails. That is, toenail stabs into the flesh, causing repeated aggravation of inflammation. Therefore, on the basis of anti-inflammatory and sterilization, it is the most important to correct the growth of toenails.
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How to solve paronychia easily
Materials: one bottle of 75% alcohol, one bottle of 3% Iodophor and one small bag of medical cotton.
step
① First soak the foot with vinegar and hot water for 5 to 10 minutes, then make the foot soft.
② Use a clean pair of nail clippers to pick out and cut off the part of toenails that have been stabbed into the meat.
③ Apply 3% Iodophor to the nail groove, and apply it to both sides of the toenail to avoid recurrence. After 5 minutes, clean the iodine solution with alcohol (anti-inflammatory and anti-virus).
④ Tear off some medical cotton and dip it into alcohol. Rub it into thin strips and use toothpicks or other tools to help it into the nail groove. It can just be stuck into the edge of toenail and the middle of nail bed, to prevent the contact between sick nail and meat, and change every day.
⑤ Repeat step 4. Change every day. At the same time, the longer the time of adherence, the less the probability of paronychia recurrence. Until the growth of the corrected nail, generally for 1-3 months, although the cycle is long, it is very effective to prevent recurrence, and help everyone away from the pain of pulling nail.
Finally, don't forget these important daily matters
① During rehabilitation, avoid wearing too tight shoes and socks to avoid squeezing your toenails and re piercing them.
② Avoid contact with unclean water, mainly ponds, rivers, ditches, etc., which will aggravate inflammation and lead to recurrence.
③ If paronychia complicated with onychomycosis, antibiotic treatment should be taken immediately to avoid the influence of healthy fingernails.
④ As a method of trauma, nail extraction is not the first choice in medicine. Only when the nail is obviously loose or the pus under the nail accumulates seriously in acute paronychia can the partial diseased nail be removed.