Ingrown toenail

[sgluckadoo]

Any sufferers of ingrown toe nails or non-fungal toenail infections?

For whatever reason I started getting these about 2 years ago and have had several surgical ablations but they keep coming back. I went in to the podiatrist last week and had an ablation, now the other toe is infected!

Anyone have any ideas, suggestions, or related stories?

[sgluckadoo]

Any prevention tips would be great as well! 

[ancmetro]

  Go to a foot doctor! Try to keep them short and clean to avoid infections.

[king4cash]

Finger nail and Toenail infections do not just go away by themselves. If you are not proactive in treating a finger or toenail infection the fungus will most likely get worse. If you ignore it for months or years the infection will get deeper into your system and will end up spreading to other parts of your body. That is why some nail fungus treatment protocols are exactly the same as jock itch or athletes feet treatments. If you cure one you will most likely not have the other when you are done.

[nannycoe1]

My husband is having a hard time with one right now but is too stubborn to go to the doctor.

[msmoneybags48]

I have had them before.  I would soak my toes in a foot tub and treat my toe with hydrogen peroxide.  You do those things when you can't afford to go to the podiatrist.

[Penwoir]

My Dad used to have an ingrown toenail and he never was able to get on top of it. Eventually he had his toenail removed and it solved the problem immediately. He didn't want us, his children, to suffer from the same problems so he used to teach us to cut our toenails straight across rather than at a curve. To this day, I have done exactly this.

[sgluckadoo]

I have had them before.  I would soak my toes in a foot tub and treat my toe with hydrogen peroxide.  You do those things when you can't afford to go to the podiatrist.

Been there, done that. It does help, but doesn't fix. i have had to give in and go to the podiatrist bc infection and just the depth of the ingrown nail. nightmare.

[sgluckadoo]

Finger nail and Toenail infections do not just go away by themselves. If you are not proactive in treating a finger or toenail infection the fungus will most likely get worse. If you ignore it for months or years the infection will get deeper into your system and will end up spreading to other parts of your body. That is why some nail fungus treatment protocols are exactly the same as jock itch or athletes feet treatments. If you cure one you will most likely not have the other when you are done.

It is wise to never let an infection go untreated. I am not dealing with a fungal infection though, it is bacterial from the ingrown nail. They just keep coming back, that is what I am perplexed about.