The nail on the child’s foot grows: causes, methods and treatment methods, prevention

The nail on the foot of a child grows at 1 year 9 months or at any other age. What to do? An ingrown nail is a tragedy, this can be assured by anyone who has encountered such a difficulty. What to do if the toe, most often large, has grown a nail? How to cure in everyday conditions with the help of folk remedies, what does medicine offer in this case?

Causes

A child can grow a nail into the skin for a variety of reasons, here are the most basic of them:

• If you noticed an ingrown nail on your feet, then it is entirely possible that this happened due to incorrectly selected shoes. Too tight or narrow shoes can lead to such consequences, as they tighten the foot tightly and subsequently grows. This also applies to newborns, all of his socks and booties should also be free.
• The absence or improperly selected nail care of the baby, for example, an incorrectly trimmed nail plate, especially if too large scissors were used for this. Ingrowths also form if the nail was cropped unevenly, especially in infants.
• Nails can grow due to lack of vitamins in the body. This leads to a curvature of the nail plate, and the risk of pathology increases.
• Any finger injuries can also cause ingrown.
• Ingrown toenails can also form if the child has flat feet or clubfoot.

If you do everything right and observe the above, then you and your child will never encounter a problem. The task of parents is to monitor the appearance of signs of an ingrown toenail in a child.

Drug treatment

It is important to remember that drug treatment of an ingrown toenail in a child (photo of the drug above) is prescribed exclusively by the attending physician.

With nail ingrowth and the appearance of pain, the following drugs can be prescribed to the child:

1. Nogtinorm balm. It is used after a softening foot bath. It is applied to the periungual roller for 15-20 minutes. The procedure is carried out twice a day for four weeks.
2. Ointment "Uroderm" (analogue - the drug "Foretal"). It is applied twice a day to the affected area, after which the child is put on socks for one hour. In children, in order to avoid complications, the ointment is used for no more than three days.
3. Ichthyol ointment. Daily applied before bedtime on the nail and periungual roller, fixed on top with a cotton pad and adhesive. In the morning, the remains of the drug should be removed.
4. Vishnevsky ointment. It is used like ichthyol ointment. A similar drug is Levomekol. In case of infection of an ingrown nail, antibiotics for internal use can be prescribed by a doctor.

What to do? A child’s toenail has grown, and medications do not help? If drug therapy is ineffective and there is a risk of complications, the patient is prescribed a procedure for removing the nail and, if necessary, damaged areas. The following methods are available.

Radio wave surgery

A high-tech method for removing ingrown nails through high-frequency waves using thermal energy. Part of the nail or its surface is removed by radio waves of a special surgical “scalpel”. The procedure is short-lived and requires only local anesthesia. It provides high-quality removal of damaged tissues and ingrown nail parts. Complications are rare.

Healing is fast enough.

Laser correction

The duration of the operation, if the nail on the child’s foot grows, depends on the volume and complexity. Passes under local anesthesia. During the procedure, possible infection and the appearance of blood due to the cauterizing effect of the laser are excluded. When applying the method, burns of the nail roller are possible. Recovery takes a long time. There are a number of contraindications.

Surgical method

If a child’s toenail grows, what should I do? Your doctor may recommend a surgical solution to your problem. Removal occurs with a surgical scalpel, followed by suturing. It is rarely used in children because of the high risk of subsequent nail deformation. Long recovery period. In the healing process, antibacterial and antiseptic therapy is necessary.

Home treatment

Each parent must know how to behave if a child’s toenail grows. In order to prevent violation of the integral cover of tissues, it is necessary to take the necessary measures to eliminate the problem in order to maintain the integrity of the nail and prevent the further spread of infection.

For this, it is not necessary to contact professional doctors, you can solve this problem at home. There are the following methods to eliminate the problem of ingrown nails at home:

1. On a daily basis, before going to bed, make the baby warm baths. They are made in the following way. Edible salt or soda is dissolved in water in a proportion of ten grams per liter of water. Additionally, you can pour chamomile broth, potassium permanganate or furatsilin. If your child has a pronounced intolerance to essential oils, then you can add them, for softening, tea tree oil or bergamot are best suited. Hands or feet are placed in such a bath for a long period of time, at least half an hour. If your child is very restless, you need to think in advance what to do with it at this moment. It is important to monitor the temperature of the water and, as soon as it cools, immediately add a new portion of warm.
2. In addition to warm baths, the problem of ingrown nails can be eliminated at home with softening compresses, which are also done at night. It is best to do them immediately after a warm bath, putting them in the right place. The best option is to make them from lamb fat or from butter and cow's milk.
3. Try to trim the ingrown part of the nail, you need to do this quite carefully.
4. If as a result of any action a small wound is revealed, it must be treated with anti-inflammatory and disinfectant drugs, the most effective in this case will be aloe juice, alcohol or iodine.
5. The next, no less good way is to take a small piece of cloth or a cotton pad and completely soak it with butter and place it under a slightly raised nail. This procedure also needs to be done on a daily basis. The nails must be trimmed with a nail file once every three days and until the problem of ingrown nails in your child is completely and finally eliminated.

Surgical intervention

If it so happens that the problem of a nail that has grown into the skin is not alien to you, surgery will help get rid of this problem quickly and without severe pain. There are several types of such interference. Before the start of any operation, injections are made, thanks to which in the future the child will not feel pain. As an anesthetic, novocaine or lidocaine is most often used.

It is important to remember that any of these drugs can cause an allergic reaction or even lead to a shock state. Therefore, before the medicine is introduced, you need to consult a doctor. One of the easiest methods to solve the problem of an ingrown nail is to get rid of it with the help of a surgeon. It can completely remove the entire nail plate. Next, the nail will be fully restored after three months. During this period, the place from which the plate is removed remains completely defenseless and even the slightest contact with it can cause severe pain, and especially in the first time after the operation.

Most often, it happens so that the nail immediately begins to grow, this is due to the fact that the nail roll is very inflamed. Therefore, after the operation, you need to make a plastic roll near the nail.

The removal of an ingrown toenail on the child's foot is done as follows. A small oval-shaped incision is made on the side of the finger, a small part of the skin is removed and the resulting wound is sutured. After that, the nail roller is turned out and its contact with the nail ends. Having done this, you can be almost completely sure that you will not have to face such a problem in the future.

With the development of technology, they are now beginning to abandon old methods and use new ones. There is a method, after the use of which the formation of any injuries is practically excluded, and this is laser correction. Laser beams are directed onto the nail plate and begin to warm it up, causing evaporation of both the plate itself and the sprout near the nail.

Any deviations and infections that occur are also removed by laser. In addition, the laser helps to cure the fungus and prevents the formation of a new one. Such a procedure can cause complications only if the nail was affected by any disease, if the child has diabetes mellitus or atherosclerosis. These diseases entail circulatory disorders, which reduces regeneration and protection against various infections, in the future this can lead to pathologies.

Prevention

To prevent nail ingrowth, you must always adhere to the following rules:

1. Wearing shoes in a child should not cause discomfort. Fingers should be free and everything should be sized. In shoes, any finger should move freely. In no case can you buy big shoes, in the future this can lead to the formation of flat feet and ingrown nails.
2. The sock and pantyhose of the child also should not squeeze fingers and be strictly in size. In addition, you need to pay attention to the fabric from which they are sewn, cotton is most favorable for the skin.
3. Things should be washed on time, preferably after each exit to the street.
4. One of the main rules - nails need to be cut correctly. On the legs, the nail must be completely cut off, and the remaining sharp corners should be treated with a nail file. The maximum size that the nail plate can protrude is a millimeter.

Conclusion

To prevent the occurrence of pathologies in a child, it is necessary to receive specialist advice in a timely manner. Engaged in home treatment, you can cause serious complications in the form of inflammation and then you can’t do without surgery. And if the appeal is timely, then the problem can be dealt with quickly and without pain.