When a toenail grows into the skin around it, it is called an ingrown toenail. The skin around the toenail becomes red, inflamed, painful, and may be infected as a result of this. Wearing shoes might be unpleasant if you have an infected ingrown toenail. Antibiotics by themselves frequently do not help. The infected nail must be detached from the skin for the infection to go away.
The “do-it-yourself” method is the most common knee-jerk reaction I observe. Many of my Houston patients feel that “bathroom surgery” is their calling and dig out the nail fragment. In most cases, this aggravates the ingrown toenail. Seeing your Houston foot doctor is the only method to thoroughly treat an ingrown toenail.
