I have an in-grown nail, what should I do?

My big toe nail on my right foot has become ingrown %26amp; its painful to walk long distances and sometimes wear shoes. I've asked people and they say i don't need to go to the doctors so i havent. I've put some betodine or whatever on it and it helps a bit, i was wondering if there were any better solutions??





Thanks :)I have an in-grown nail, what should I do?
Soak your foot in epsom salts with warm water,15 minutes each day until it is better.Also let your toenail grow out pretty long!





Hope that helps!I have an in-grown nail, what should I do?
go to a foot doctor.
I had an ingrown toe nail


in my bigg toe. Either


you try and get the clippers


and dig deep until you find


the ingrown nail..but either


way you have to..or really


need to go to the doctor.


Mine got infected..and Im still


finishing up my anti-biotic's.


So go to the doctor.
Ah


An ingrown toenail is caused by the edge of the nail slicing into the toe and then getting infected.





My dad used to wash up well, sterilize the area with alcohol, then take a twist of cotton ball material and a needle and tweezers to insert the cotton beneath the edge of the nail. This hurt a little bit, but I recall it working.





I have had about 50% success with this. Other times I had to go to the doctor. He would cut that edge of the nail off. He cut it at a slant, so when it grows back it doesn't get ingrown again. Local anesthesia.





To prevent ingrown toenails, don't pick at your toenails, don't lift the nail up from the toe, cut the nail straight across, not rounded, and don't wear tight shoes, esp. high heels.
if you just don't do anything it will get worse. i know someone who had to get surgery because he waited too long %26amp; it got really bad %26amp; infected.





i recently had one but it was just beginning so i was able to just cut the nail as i normally do %26amp; pull out the in grown part. then i cleaned it well %26amp; put a bandage %26amp; antibiotic on it %26amp; was fine
Go see a doctor.
go see a doctor...





it can get infected and make things worse
I had an ingrown toenail on my big toe and the doctor told me to file my nail from the centre and it alleviated the pain and the nail healed. So take an emery stick and file right on the top of your nail in the centre....just file away til you've thinned it....that seems to take the pressure off the corners where you ingrown problem usually is. I didn't think it would work, but it did. And of course...soaking your sore foot in warm water will help too.
Treatment





Treatment of ingrown nails ranges from soaking the afflicted area to surgery. The appropriate method is dictated by the severity of the condition. In nearly all cases, drainage of blood or watery discharge should mean a trip to the doctor, usually a podiatrist, a specialist trained explicitly to treat these conditions. Most practitioners agree that trying to outwait the condition is nearly always fruitless, as well as agonizing.





[edit] Home care





In mild cases (not including the severe cases as in the photos above), doctors recommend daily soaking of the affected digit in a mixture of warm water and Epsom salts and applying an over-the-counter antiseptic. This might allow the nail to grow out so it may be trimmed properly and the flesh to heal. Also Dettol instant Hand sanitizer has been known to be effective in the treatment of minor cases. Note that infection may be somewhat difficult to prevent in cleaning and treating ingrown nails owing to the warm, dark, and damp environment in shoes.





Peroxide is immediately effective to help clean minor infections but iodine is more effective in the long term as it continues to prevent bacterial growth even after it is dry. However, iodine should not be used on deep wounds. In such cases a physician or podiatrist should be consulted. Also, although bandages can help keep out bacteria, one should never apply any of the new types of spray-on bandages to ingrown nails that show any discharge - preventing drainage will likely cause intense swelling and pain. Removal of spray-on bandages can be achieved with common rubbing alcohol.





Some doctors will apply silver nitrate to granulation tissue (overgrowth of irritated tissue at the side of the nail. This may look like reddish cauliflower, bleeds easily). This may shrink and or remove this sensitive overgrown tissue at the side of the nail.





These home remedies are, in serious cases, ineffective: when the flesh is too swollen and infected these procedures will not work. Thus, these more severe cases, such as when the area around the nail becomes infected or the nail will not grow back properly, must be treated by a professional and the patient should avoid repeated attempts at this type of 'bathroom surgery'.