How to remove a ingrown toenail?

Question

How do you know you have a ingrown toenail

Answer 1

they are sometimes painful and annoying and are at the corner of your toe if it is severe the doctor needs to take it out or you can try soaking your affected foot in a solution of soapy warm water and try to just nip the corner or put a piece of tissue small under the nail so nail grows out also when cuttin your nails cut straight across and to prevent ingrown
toe nail cut v in the middle of the nail. also hope you are not
a diabetic then you need a specialist to deal with your nails.

Answer 2

Sorry Victoria. There's just no safe way to do this at home. I've had several toenail removals and mine always grow back, even after cauterizing the nail bed. I have not had to have any tonail surgery in years, though. Here's what I do to keep my toes from getting infected. 1. Train the tissue. This was told to me by a podiatrist. When you get out of the shower, bath, pool, etc, and while your nail and skin are still soft from the water, you gently pull back on the skin around your toes and lift the corners of your nails out. This helps encourage proper growth. 2. Thin out the nail. This I discovered accidently while buffing out ridges in my nail. If you thin out the overall thickness of your nail, it takes a lot of pressure off the corners and they don't dig in so much. 3. File your problem nails, don't clip them. Clipping sometimes causes them to break too short or at an angle. 4. Do not file your nails too short. Try to keep the corners above that pocket of skin on the sides. 5. If you have a sharp corner cutting into the side of your toe, it is probably okay to gently round out that corner with an emery board. In general though, file your nails straight across. 6. I have read that when a nail is digging into the sides of the toe, you can take a Q-tip or cotton ball and roll a bit of the cotton into a little pill. You then take this pill and sqeeze it into the space between the nail and skin. Make sure your hands are clean. This never worked for me; the cotton kept falling out. I suspect that because of your injury, you will have to have the toenail surgery. I know it's no fun, and I wish you the best.

Answer 3

you have to cut down to the root, far enough so that the grove it was digging into can heal before it grows back into it. In reality though, you probably have to have surgery, but the good news is its almost universally covered because its not elective, and it takes about a half an hour.
I have this problem, at first i went in, they removed them in the office, they give you three shots, one on each side of the toe (mine were my big toe, maybe less for smaller toes) and they burn, and then they go in with instruments and clip it at the nail bed. After that they take a chemical and rub it into the nail bed to kill it, preventing the toe nails from growing back.
unfortunately this can fail, especially if your a good healer, so i'm told, which happened to me, so i guess the doctor was shooting smoke up my bum, but in that case, there is actual surgery, where they cut open your toes and remove the nail bed, completely, so there is nothing to grow back. This hurts and it leaves your feet incapacitated for a few days with minor to moderate pain for about a week, then you have special shoes to remove weight from the foot, all in all its not very fun.

If you want though, there are several in home remedies, like soaking them they prying the nail out yourself, dreadfully painful though. Didn't work for me though.

Answer 4

If you can't remove it fairly easily yourself, you need to go see a Podiatrist. Do this especially if it's recurring. They can perform a procedure whereby they remove the entire side of your nail. I've had it done, it's brilliant no more pain or worries.
So give a Podiatrist a call, there should be plenty in your telephone directory.

Answer 5

talk to your doctor if you're not sure. They can tell you whether it is an ingrown toenail and can take care of it for you.

If it doesnt hurt, it probably isnt though.

Answer 6

Pliers

Answer 7

doctor or you will get an infection and even more painful