Treating Ingrown Toenails
Having an ingrown toenail can happen to anyone and is fairly common worldwide. When this happens, you have a nail that grows in such a way that it cuts into the underlying tissue of your toe. This is also referred to as the nail bed, which is rich in blood vessels. This is one reason that it becomes vulnerable to infection once that tissue has been pierced. Some like to try to take it out themselves but you should visit the East Ivanhoe Podiatry office to have it taken care of. Doing it yourself, you run a bigger risk o infection. It seems that ingrown toenails generally only affect people who wear shoes, but not those that go barefoot. Two symptoms of an ingrown toenail are swelling and pain along the borders of the toenail. The symptoms will get worse the longer it is untreated, especially when you are wearing shoes. When you aggravate the toe that is affected it can cause sharp pain when the nail is pushed deeper into the nail be...