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Spooner

Lifer
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I think I have an ingrown toe nail on my big toe. It's very red and KILLS when touched.

What do you to help this?
 
minendo

minendo

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Aug 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: Spooner
I think I have an ingrown toe nail on my big toe. It's very red and KILLS when touched.

What do you to help this?
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Dig it out or have a doctor do so.

 
Nocturnal

Nocturnal

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All you do is go with a nail cutter and cut it out. That's what I do ALL THE TIME. It works all the time too!
 
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Incitatus

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Soak it in warm water (or take a long shower, etc.) then pry it up. Then keep it pried up. Once its up for the first time, it shouldn't be that bad just to pull it up again every hour or so. Keep prying it up and it should stop hurting in a day or two.
 
Nocturnal

Nocturnal

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Just cut it using a toe nail clipper. This is what I do all the time and it works. If it growns ingrown again, just repeat. It shouldn't grown back for another couple of months.
 
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zippy

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Ugh. I used to get ingrown toe nails on my big toes really badly. I used to just cut them out, but you have to be extremely sterile when you do so because it can get infected easily. I think, it's been a few years, that mine got infected even though I cleaned the scissor/clipper with rubbing alcohol before cutting. Anyway, it was tremendously painful - I couldn't run or anything, it was terrible. I went to the podiatrist and there is a simple procedure where he applies local anasthetic to the toe then cuts away the sides of the nail that are under your skin plus a little bit more. Your toe nail is a little bit narrower, but not much. Anyway, he then applies a chemical to the area that he cut out that kills the root of the nail where he cut out so it can't grow back. Basically, it gets rid of your ingrown toe nail problems forever. It's been 3-4 years and it has been great. Oh, and since it's just a nail, the recovery time for it is quite short - he told me that one kid was playing varsity football 24 hrs later. Personally, I needed a few days before I could do serious running, but I could and it didn't hurt. :) However, I did have to do epsom salt soaks and keep my big toes really clean and put on antibiotics and bandaids for about 6-8 weeks, but it was well worth it - I just did it before school, after I played frisbee or whatever after school, and then before I went to sleep, so it didn't take up any time really, I was able to soak for 10-15 minutes while doing other stuff.

Anyway, that's another alternative if this is a chronic thing you're getting.

If this is just the first time, you might as well just soak your foot in warm water then get a really clean scissor/clipper (rubbing alcohol) and take care of business. I was able to get away with that for awhile, but it kept growing back.
 
Pliablemoose

Pliablemoose

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One of the things we did in the toenail clinic I helped in @ school was to pry up the nail & slip some cotton from a cotton ball between the nail & skin, helps the nail grow out quicker, be sure to remove the cotton ball shreds though.
 
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Originally posted by: rudeguy
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Luagsch

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tools: axe
method: chop
pro: that toe hurts never again
con: foot hurts for a while
side-effects: walking strait becomes a challenge

seriously go to a doc (before the choping). a friend of mine was walking around for 4 month in sandals (after seeing the doc and getting the right treatment cause his toe was infected)
 
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Pepsi90919

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Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: Luagsch
tools: axe
method: chop
pro: that toe hurts never again
con: foot hurts for a while
side-effects: walking strait becomes a challenge

seriously go to a doc (before the choping). a friend of mine was walking around for 4 month in sandals (after seeing the doc and getting the right treatment cause his toe was infected)
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lmfao that method/pro/con/side effect thing is classic.
 
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