Embedded nail, painful legs

• that does not allow the foot to breathe. • Incorrect nail cutting, more precisely the rounding tendency of the corners. • Excessive sweating that invariably leads to infections. • Genetic predisposition to incarnate nails, with edges covered by a skin layer. • Walking through the predominant pressing on the tip of your fingers. • Peripheral of the elderly.

At the onset, the skin around the nail gets red and there is pain at the touch or on the go. Subsequently, the infection appears and the skin at the side edges swells over the edge of the nail. In the most serious phase, purulent infection is also manifested by bleeding. If the patient does not consult a doctor and does not follow a treatment, complications may occur, some even serious. Untreated on time and properly, it can spread to the subcutaneous tissue, which is quite serious, especially for patients with or for those suffering from circulatory disorders.

One of the complications is piogenic granuloma, which has the appearance of a red lesion that bleeds when touching the shoe, for example. The diagnosis will be determined by the dermatologist. Most of the time, the treatment of the infection is caused by the administration of anti-pharynx antibiotics by eliminating and draining the pus. Only the specialist dermatologist is the one who can prescribe the treatment. Immediately after onset, early treatment can be done by applying warm compresses or wetting with rivanol buffers as well as an anti-pharynx antibiotic, but if infections are generated, analyzes will be performed and the patient will receive another treatment schedule.

Most of the times, the only solution is surgical treatment, because most patients come to the doctor when the situation is already difficult when the nail presents complications. consists of removing the portion of the nail raised in the meat, then applying a substance with antiseptic properties to the root of the nail in order to stop the meat growth of the respective nail portion. The intervention will be performed under local anesthesia, which means it is painless. • The nails should be cut correctly, straight, leaving the free corner over the skin of the foot. • Avoid the inconvenient shoe, strain and implicitly the one that is a good environment for the development of bacteria and infections.

• Increased attention should be paid. These should be washed every evening with an antibacterial soap. • Cotton socks are ideal because they keep the foot dry. .