Let's Talk: Ingrown toenails
Greetings! For this weeks topic, lets talk ingrown toenails What is it? and what to expect. Ingrown toenail is basically your nail growing into parts of the the surrounding skin/soft tissue. This can cause variety of symptoms such as pain, inflammation and swelling. Most people recover from episodes of ingrown toenails by clipping their nails straight, wearing comfortable shoes and keeping their feed clean and dry. However for some cases surgical intervention is required such as chronic ingrown toenail. Possible causes: - ill fitting foot wear - acute trauma to the area - cutting toenails too short and rounding - infection - diabetes/neurological conditions Surgical treatment: Now the reason I wanted to talk about ingrown toenails for this weeks health topic was because I myself got the opportunity to do a partial nail removal of an ingrown toenail. It was one of my first experiences of minor office surgical procedures. I will walk through exactly wha...
