When do Ingrown Toenails Require Medical Attention
Ingrown toenails can be annoying, often painful experiences that often require medical attention. However, if your ingrown toenail isn’t severe, you may be wondering if you can handle the treatment for it yourself. If you identify your ingrown before it becomes severe, you can attempt home remedies like Epsom salt soaks before you go to [...]
Athlete With an Ingrown Toenail – What to Do
Ingrown toenails can affect anyone of any age, occupation, or activity level. However, physical activity and sports can put pressure on your toenails, and increase the chance of a nail becoming ingrown. This is especially true when a physical activity requires tight shoes, like running shoes. An athlete with an ingrown toenail will often experience [...]
Why Did I Get An Ingrown Toenail?
An ingrown toenail is when the corner of the toenail grows in the side of the toe and into the flesh, thereby causing a cut that often becomes infected and painful. While ingrown toenails can occur on any toe, they usually occur on the big toe. Because of the troublesome and painful nature of ingrown [...]
Is it safe to treat ingrown toenails at home?
Many people suffer from ingrown toenails which is where the toenail grows into the side of the toe protruding the skin and puncturing the tissue. Ingrown toenails can become very painful and severely infected due to poor hygiene and insufficient cleaning. As the infection grows the ingrown toenail can become inflamed, swollen, filled with pus, [...]
Taking Care of an Ingrown Toenail
Ingrown toenails are usually caused by cutting toenails too short, toenail injury, genetically curved, toenails, improper footwear, playing certain sports, or poor foot hygiene. Infections are common in people who have diabetes or other conditions that cause poor circulation or compromised immune system. Your toenail is infected if you experience these symptoms: Pain when applying [...]
Dealing with Infected Ingrown Toenails
An ingrown toenail infection can be easy to ignore in the beginning, but it can get worse and become unbearably painful. It can be caused by an ingrown toenail or an injury. What causes an infected toenail? Cutting your toenails too short Not cutting the toenails straight across Toenail injury Abnormal toenail shape (curved) Improper [...]
Do Sports Increase your Risk of Ingrown Toenails?
You use your feet everyday. Whether it’s walking to get somewhere or using your feet to move a table closer to you, they are one of our most important tools for living-- which is why we should take care of them. Sports are one of the most popular activities among people around the world and [...]
Diabetic Foot Care
Diabetes comes with various foot problems because of poor circulation to the extremities. When you have diabetes, you should always be careful with your feet and follow proper diabetic foot care to avoid serious problems. Below are steps that you should include in your foot care plan. It is important to check your feet everyday. [...]
Treating Ingrown Toenails On Your Own
Ingrown toenails are when a toenail grows into the corner of the toe and into the flesh, thereby cutting and digging into the flesh. Since it is tearing into the toe, it is usually painful, and becomes infected due to bacteria invading the exposed wound. This can result in inflammation, pus, and even more pain. [...]
How to To Take Care of an Infected Ingrown Toenail
An ingrown toenail is when part of the nail grows into the skin on the side of the toe. In some cases, it can get infected. An infected ingrown toenail can be increasingly painful as time goes by without treatment. If you believe to have an infected ingrown toenail, you should contact a podiatrist (foot [...]