As soon as you have discovered the first signs of an ingrown nail disease (pain in the area of the nail plate, slight bloating and redness), treatment should be started immediately. First you need to say “no” to the narrow shoes - this will avoid pressure on the inflamed area of the finger.
Ingrown toenail: home butter treatment
If the nail grows into the pulp of your finger with its sharp edges and causes severe pain, mainly when walking, then buy a rubber fingertip at the pharmacy, fill it completely with cow oil and put on a suffering finger every night before going to bed. Repeat the procedure for 2-3 weeks daily. The nail softens and ceases to cause pain.
Ingrown toenail: bath treatment
1. In the initial stage of onychocryptosis, you can use the baths with a pharmacy chamomile. Pour chamomile flowers (6 tablespoons) with two liters of boiling water, cover the dishes with a lid and leave for at least one hour. Strain the infusion, warm and lower the leg with the affected nail there for 15-20 minutes. This procedure should be carried out daily.
2. Do warm foot baths daily with a small amount of potassium permanganate, furatsilina or soda (a teaspoon of soda in 250 ml of water). Then cut off the growing edges of the nail plate (see below).
Ingrown toenail: home treatment using aloe
To a sick nail for the night, attach a pre-peeled aloe leaf and tie it with a bandage. In the morning, you will notice that the pain and swelling will pass. Try to trim the neatly ingrown tips of the nail and reapply the aloe. Repeat the procedure until complete recovery.
Ingrown toenail: Kombucha home treatment
Separate Kombucha into plates and wrap the affected finger and the area around it with one of them. Wrap over cling film and put on a pair of socks (cotton and wool). After 2-3 days, Kombucha will soften the ingrown nail.
Ingrown toenail: home fir oil treatment
To relieve pain, inflammation and softening of the ingrown nail, do lotions with fir oil several nights in a row before bedtime .
However, it is worthwhile to understand that such an unpleasant sore as an ingrown nail, the treatment with folk remedies of which was described above, will not simply disappear. All these recommendations are only a preparatory step for having a mini-operation to remove an ingrown nail at home. How to do it safely and efficiently? Read it!
All of the following procedures should be carried out after you have achieved pain relief, inflammation and softened the ingrown nail.
To cut off a diseased nail plate, you will need scissors with sharp and only straight ends. It is such a tool that will allow you to cut the ingrown nail exactly horizontally.
If the diseased nail is already too short and incorrectly trimmed, then with the help of a nail file for manicure, try to round its edges so that they do not stick into the skin. For this, you can use a small plate (for example, cut from an unnecessary film) or a piece of fleece, which should be placed under the edge of the nail plate.
After a while, the “wild meat” will settle, the sore spot will heal, and a properly trimmed nail will not bother the finger.
In case of suppuration or bleeding, it is recommended to use ointments that stretch the pus and prevent the development of infection. For these purposes, Levomekol and Vishnevsky balm are suitable. The product is applied to a piece of gauze or bandage, applied to the wound and wrapped with plastic wrap, and a sock is put on top of the leg to fix the bandage.