Involuted and Ingrown Toenails

Ingrown, Involuted, Curved, Deformed toenails accounts for more than forty percent of patients seeking family medical attention for a foot problem.
An ingrown toenail (or Onychocryptosis) is where the side of the toenail cuts into the skin next to the nail. This can become painful as the skin may become inflamed introducing bacterial infection and inflammation. Often the big toe that is affected, but can happen to finger nails too.
An Infected ingrown toenail for the most part is a self-inflicted condition.
A Involuted toenail is similar to the Ingrowing toenail but . . . Is curling into the flesh, but ISN’T actually piercing the Skin but can feel very painful and also appear Red and Inflamed as well.
There are a number of causes for ingrown toenails and involuted toenails these include; narrow fitting footwear, poor nail cutting techniques and trauma (such as stubbing your toe).

Soaking your feet can relieve the pain of ingrowing and involuted toenails.

Soaking your feet in warm salt water for about fifteen minutes a day will relieve the tenderness and swelling ingrown toenails can cause. Use a footbath composed of one teaspoon of salt for every pint of water.
You should also soak your feet to soften ingrown toenails before you clip them.

Avoid Wearing tight shoes because the footwear can press down on the toenails. This pressure can cause the toenail to be pushed down into the skin. Once the nail begins to grow into the skin, you have a medical problem started.

Curve Correct is a new home treatment for involuted toenails.
You apply the ultra-thin composite brace across the top of your toenail. The toenail brace is straight and flexible (like a fishing rod). When it’s bonded to a curved surface like your toenail it applies a gentle force that straightens the nail. http://www.curvecorrect.com

With these home remedies, you can ease the pain and discomfort of ingrown toenails. And, with regular care, you can make ingrown toenails a thing of the past.

A Foot Health Practitioner (FHP) or Podiatrist would seek to relieve a painful involuted toenail or ingrowing by trimming back the offending side of the nail. Relief of symptoms would be immediate and the treatment would be quite painless. A nail ‘pack’ of cotton wool or gauze may be inserted between the nail edge and the skin to prevent the nail from digging into or piercing the skin.

However, when we are presented with an involuted toenail that has required regular attention, then we would strongly advise that the patient considers having a Partial Nail Avulsion.
A Partial Nail Avulsion is a minor surgical procedure undertaken with local anaesthesia that involves removing the offending side(s) of the nail and corresponding matrix (root) tissue. The area is then cauterized to prevent the side(s) of the nail from re-growing. This procedure will provide an instant, permanent, and painless cure for any painful involuted and ingrowing toenails.

When conservative methods of treating the nail are likely to be unsuccessful, then surgery may be needed. When required a Podiatrist can perform a simple and permanent procedure that removes a small wedge of the nail which prevents it from growing back.

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