Are paronychia correction patches useful?

Paronychia is a disease that many people suffer from nowadays. On the one hand, it is because people wear inappropriate shoes, which squeezes the toenails. On the other hand, the shoes are not breathable, and the feet are in a moist environment for a long time, which makes it easy for bacteria to grow. Most people treat paronychia with a minor surgical procedure. But it's painful and very inconvenient. So are paronychia correction patches useful?

It is effective. It can change the direction of nail growth and eliminate ingrown nails. In daily life, we should also pay attention to:

1. Take good care of the skin around your nails and avoid any damage to them. Nails should not be cut too short and you should not pull out "hangnails" with your hands.

2. Take precautions before they happen. Wood thorns, bamboo thorns, sewing needles, fish bones, etc. are the foreign objects that are most likely to injure the nail groove in daily life. You should be extra careful when participating in labor or doing housework.

3. Pay attention to the maintenance of your fingers. Apply some Vaseline or skin care cream after washing your hands and before going to bed to enhance the disease resistance of the skin around the nail groove.

4. When there are minor injuries on your fingers, apply 2% iodine and then bandage them with a Band-Aid to prevent infection.

5. If there is pus under the nail, the nail should be removed to facilitate adequate drainage and complete healing. Applying the nail repair solution can improve the nail groove.

Except for the free edge, the other three sides of the nail are connected to the skin folds, and the connecting part forms a groove, which is called the nail groove. Paronychia is an infection that occurs in the nail groove. Paronychia is mostly caused by punctures, abrasions, ingrown nails or pulling out "inserted skin thorns" of the nail groove and surrounding tissues.

Clinical manifestations

At the beginning, one side of the nail groove will become red, swollen and painful, and it may become purulent and infected within a short period of time. It may spread to the base of the nail and the opposite nail groove, forming perionychia, or it may spread to the subungual area to form a subungual abscess. At this time, the pain intensifies and the swelling is obvious. Yellow-white pus can be seen under the nail floating up the nail. If not treated in time, it may develop into purulent dactylitis and even cause phalangeal osteomyelitis. It may also become chronic paronychia, persistent paronychia or subungual abscess. Because the infection is relatively superficial, the systemic symptoms are often not obvious.

examine

Sometimes the white blood cell count may increase, but no positive findings are found on X-ray examination.

diagnosis

Based on medical history, clinical manifestations and laboratory tests, diagnosis is generally not difficult.

treat

In the early stages, hot compresses, physical therapy, external compresses, and the application of iodine amines or antibiotics can be used.

If there is pus, a longitudinal incision can be made at the nail groove for drainage. When the infection has spread to the subcutaneous area around the nail base, a longitudinal incision can be made in the nail grooves on both sides, the epithelial sheet on the nail root can be turned up, the root of the nail can be removed, and a small piece of vaseline gauze or latex sheet can be placed for drainage. If pus has accumulated under the nail bed, the nail should be removed or the nail above the abscess cavity should be trimmed. When removing nails, be careful to avoid damaging the nail bed to prevent deformities of the new nails in the future.