Ingrown toenail... Advice please!
I have had problems near an ingrown nail on my right big toe for a while now and i stubbed my toe again the other afternoon and split the nail badly so i own a V shape but the ingrown bit is still embedded in my skin! Ouch! Ive be cleaning it and brought some magnesium sulphate paste today as my mum said it can help draw out the pus and germs (disgusting i know).
I'm in alot of pain near it and being that it is saturday i cant really get a doctor appt till monday morning.
Is in attendance anything else i can do till i get to see a doctor?
What will the doctor do as well?
Thanks surrounded by advance
Answer: First of all adjectives your toenail into a V shape actually doesn't help you when you own an ingrown toenail, so leave the nail alone for a while. You can bring back a cream which softens your toenails which can ease the pain and generate it easier to cut your toe nail, if not i'm afraid you will call for to take a trip to your doctors to have the toenail any partly removed, or fully.
If you have a elevated pain threshold then carry a hot flannel cloth and hold it on your foot, or put hot water in a pudding basin and leave your foot soak for a while. It will soften the skin and allow you to cut the member of your nail off which it digging into your skin, staple clippers are easy to do it with but you inevitability to slip them under the nail and try and remove as much as you can. Whatever you do, don't use a pin file because all the shavings can basically make it all worse. After that, valet your feet and apply an antiseptic cream/liquid and then a plaster and within the morning your toe should feel alot better. If you do go ahead near this I still suggest seeing a doctor though, because although your toe will feel better, your nail might hold to be removed right to the nail bed and i'm not sure you should do that on your own without anesthetic procedures.
Call your doctors and bring up to date them that you have an ingrown toenail that is significantly painfull, because they usually try to get these things treated quickly. When you be in motion to the doctor they will usually give you an injection in between your big toe and lying on your big toe which numbs it, and also makes it swell up like a sausage. and next they cut your nail right down to the nail bed as it's the single way to stop it being ingrown, they wont definately enjoy to remove the whole nail, I don`t know just part of it and afterwards it might sting somewhat but you should be fine in a few days. You are usually advised to take off the original dressing on for 2-3 days..
Cut off adjectives the bits that are ragged(as short as you can)
Give it a good soaking in a bowl of hot saline water and then put on your Mag Sulph cement dressing and a pad of somesort to protect it-
A piece of foam over the dressing is nice.
Don't worry in the order of what the doctor will do on Monday!
He will evaluate the situation,and do what is best!.
Go to a podiatrist tell them it's an emergency. Unless, you know someone at a nalis pa that can remove the ingrown. They know how to do this since they're an expert in cleaning fastener sand such. Whenever I go to one I ask tehm if there's an ingrown and they would remove it for you if you want. Don't touch it anymore coz you might just spawn it worse. There's not much you can do. I've had a few in-grown toenails, same toes. Usually I'd take the record insert from the nail clippers and try to pry the ingrown nail pay for and clip it. It hurts like none other. To help beside the infection you might soak it in warm saline water.