how do i get a outgrown toenail out safely?

Question

i mean ingrown...srry!

Answer 1

See your doctor or a podiatrist.

Answer 2

Do you mean an ingrown toenail???

If the corner of the toenail has grown down into the skin and is red and swollen and HURTS A LOT, you have an ingrown toenail.

Here is how to fix it. First put any kind of pain killer you have on the area before you start. Neosporin, Orajel for babies gums, anything to kill pain on the skin.

Get a little bit of a cotton ball and a round toothpick or a small pointed item, pull off tiny bits of the cotton and gently pack it under the side that is ingrown. Pack it full until the nail lifts up level. Put neosporin on each little piece.

NEVER file your toenail down on the edges, that will cause them to ingrow. Straight across only. This will eliminate the pain usually the first day. Leave it packed until it is healed or repack it as needed.

This works very well.

Answer 3

Much easier than ingrown. Do you mean an ingrown nail?

OUCH!! Sorry you have to deal with that, my daughter used to get one quite frequently, it really hurt her.

Try this:
WHAT CAN I DO FOR IT?
In mild cases, where no infection is present, pain relief can be obtained by applying a standard moisturizing cream to the nail edge and covering with a bandaid. This softens the hard skin and often provides temporary pain relief. In more advanced cases, where redness or obvious infection is present, seek the attention of a doctor.
http://www.footdokter.com/treatments/ingrown_nail.htm

When thigs are soft, you can then try pulling the skin away and trimming the nail yourself, but a doctor is really good at it. Learn to trim it in a way that it will not happen again.

More stuff from the same site:
WHAT WILL MY DOCTOR DO FOR IT?
In the most minor cases, the podiatrist will simply cut the nail to shorten it, and show you how to cut the nail in the future, to prevent ingrowing of the nail again (See below for instructions on proper nail cutting). In more severe cases, but not those in which an infection hasn't developed, the podiatrist may gently remove the ingrown portion of the nail. This affords considerable relief, but is temporary. After a few weeks, when the nail grows long again, it will again grow in. In cases where the nail has grown in repeatedly, or more critically, when the nail edge has penetrated the skin and caused an infection, the podiatrist will perform a minor procedure called an Ingrown Nail Correction or Matricectomy. The podiatrist will gently numb your toe, reshape the nail edge and finally, apply a medicine which will, in most cases, permanently prevent the nail edge from growing improperly again.

CAN I PREVENT FROM IT HAPPENING AGAIN?
CUTTING NAILS PROPERLY TO PREVENT INGROWN NAILS
Cutting toe nails properly goes a long way toward the prevention of ingrown nails. Use a safety nail clipper, available at every drug store on the planet. Cut the nails STRAIGHT ACROSS, so that the nail corner is visible. If you cut the nail too short so that the nail corner is not visible, you are inviting the nail corner to grow into the skin. It is the natural tendency, when the edge of the nail starts to grow in, to cut down at an angle at the nail edge, to relieve the pain. This DOES relieve he pain TEMPORARILY, but it also starts the downward spiral, training the nail to become more and more ingrown. What happens is that cutting down at an angle creates a space at the nail edge. When the advancing nail edge reaches the space, it rolls downward, taking the course of least resistance. The edge becomes more and more ingrown, until it pierces the skin and makes an infection. So, cut the nails STRAIGHT ACROSS and never have an ingrown nail again.

Answer 4

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Answer 6

Well first I'd tell you to see a doctor or podiatrist as said before they will usually prescribe an antibiotic first to see if your body will naturally push the toenail out when the antibiotics attack it (as simply i can say) if that doesn't work they will pull the entire nail or part of the nail out (depending on the severity). Now this gets tedious if you get them quite often as i do because i get carried away with the nail clippers and cut them too short. I usually just take the nail file in a pair of clippers and dig it out....sometimes i can be painful depending on how far it has grown into the skin. But i myself have gotten used to it. up to you how you want to do it.

Answer 7

Can easily get under the corner of the nail with a wooden toothpick and raise it up.. may even leave that small piece of wood in there to keep that sharp corner from going back down. Will usually only take a couple times of lifting that corner, to solve the problem. Just don't leave it until it gets infected. Get it lifted as soon as you are aware of it.

Answer 8

If this is an ingrown nail, try soaking your foot in some epson salts its not that expensive and the nail should come up and should be much easier to remove. This not might work after one soak so do it a couple times

Answer 9

I went to my doctor. He did the burning treatment and the cutting treatment that others have described. It went away. Now after 6 months it is starting to come back. Many times they will perscribe an antifugal cream or pill. Most of the time insurance doesnt cover it. And its very expensive.

Answer 10

With mine I sucked it up and let it grow. I had it removed completly and it grew back into my toe. So i cut it when it started to hurt and just pulled it out kept coming back. Then after 3 years of that crap i just let it grow. It popped through the top of my toe and then it just stayed out. It hurt like hell but thats how i got rid of mine. Dont know if its safe but it worked!

Answer 11

to safely remove you need to see your Dr.

I use to work in Surgery and occasionaly t hey would bring in a kid who needed one removed.. and I have to tell you.. thats the only procedure that made me wince!


I pull mine out myself... but man does it hurt! I am told that once your nail regrows you can clip them a special way so they wont become ingrown again,

good luck.