I stubbed my toe playing soccer and it turned purple and after the blood cleared out it became brown and now it lifts up and hurts just to put my shoe on what can i do to either make if come off or stop hurting?
2007-03-01 14:02:43 · 6 answers · asked by teacher4567 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
You should probably trim it down as close as you possibly can so it doesn't get accidently ripped off- that will seriously hurt. Keep the nail short, keep it clean, and probably you should put a bandaid on it too. Some antibiotic ointment might also help. If it's swollen, some aspirin or advil would take down the swelling and make it hurt less, or an ice pack.
2007-03-01 14:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Preston S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is what I did....
Very carefully trim the nail as short as possible. (Filing is best.)
Then soak your toe in peroxide. Clean underneath as much as possible without ripping the nail.
Glue the nail back together with common wood glue. Hold it down to dry as flat as possible.
Use nailpolish to seal it. (I used dark colours to cover up the nasty looking nail. But I guess if you're a guy, you might want to use clear polish. Use a polish that claims to be very hard.)
This might not last too long (depending on how rough you are on your toe when you play soccer asn depending on how long your nail is.) Mine usually lasted 5-7 days. Then I did the whole thing all over again and again... 'Til it grew out.
2007-03-01 15:46:14 · answer #2 · answered by s2pified 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your best bet is to drill a hole in the nail and relieve let the blood out and relieve the pressure. It you can't drill the nail. then take a steel nail and heat is on the stove. then press it against the toe nail, it will melt a hole in the nail and let the blood out. Neither option is fun, but once you let the blood out, you will feel a lot less pain. That is if it has a blood bubble under the toe nail.
If it is just that the nail is barely holding on, I would trim the nail back and cover the exposed area with a bandaid to reduce the cahnce of smanging it or rubbing the sensitive skin against anything.
2007-03-01 14:59:15 · answer #3 · answered by B H 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
umm... just soak it in a quart of warm water and 5 cap fulls of hydrogen peroxide, it doesn't hurt. But it just helps get rid of some infection and helps reduce the chance of getting infection. And after that just put a small gauze pad on it with some ointment or something on it and then just wrap it in so tape or something like tape just so keep it on. that should help.
2007-03-01 14:17:17 · answer #4 · answered by K8e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either take the pain and rip it off or go to a doctor for them to remove it.I would much rather rip it off and go through severe pain for several minutes then go through pain non stop for weeks.
2007-03-01 14:43:46 · answer #5 · answered by darlene100568 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a foot doctor and trim it down.
2007-03-01 14:32:26 · answer #6 · answered by LadyPureDee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋