At my Houston podiatry clinic, many patients philosophize about why they have ingrown toenails. One is the fact that they do not clip their toenails frequently enough. Ingrown toenails are not usually caused by this. However, depending on the shape of your toenail, how often you cut your toenails can affect how pleasant they are.
Some people have particularly curved toenails. When the toenail is not trimmed, it presses into the skin from the top and sides of the shoe, causing irritation, inflammation, and infection. Some people have a toenail that folds over the toe’s end. The toenail can grow into the end of the toe as it grows, causing pain and inflammation. In these circumstances, clipping the toenail regularly will help prevent an ingrown toenail.
Regularly maintaining feet and toenails hygiene is useful to everyone. Long toenails can grab on shoes and socks and pull them apart. It is an excruciatingly painful and frequently bloody scenario. This type of trauma can result in infection, fungal infection, and irreversible toenail deformity.
