How to bandage paronychia

The health of feet is very important for everyone. If you don't pay attention to it in daily life, it is easy to develop paronychia after the nail infection. If paronychia is not treated in time, it will cause lesions around the nails and affect the patient's adjacent nails. In addition to actively treating paronychia, you also need to take good care of yourself, so that the disease can be effectively controlled.

How to bandage paronychia

If the paronychia does not break or ooze pus and the wound surface is dry, there is no need for bandaging. If there is pus or exudation, it needs to be dealt with promptly to prevent serious infection and adverse consequences. For paronychia, use gauze to bandage it. Wear breathable sandals and slippers instead of leather shoes or sneakers. Avoid strenuous exercise. Adhere to the course of treatment and you will generally recover in fifteen days.

What is paronychia?

Paronychia is an inflammatory reaction that affects the skin folds around the nail, usually on the fingers or toes. If paronychia is not treated in time, it will pose a "big hidden danger". Many people do not pay attention to paronychia, which leads to the deterioration of the disease. Moreover, paronychia is a highly contagious fungal disease. If left untreated, it may cause a series of diseases such as tinea capitis and tinea manuum. Therefore, if you have paronychia, you must seek timely treatment.

Under normal circumstances, paronychia will not cause harm to the human body, but if "ingrown nails" occur, there will be small damage to the skin tissue around the nail groove, and bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus will take advantage of the situation and enter, causing onychomycosis, or onychomycosis.

The hidden dangers of paronychia!

Paronychia can cause systemic symptoms. If not incised and drained, the abscess may extend to under the nail and become a subungual abscess, and yellow-white pus can be seen under the nail. At the beginning, the subcutaneous tissue on one side of the nail becomes red, swollen, and painful. Some may disappear on their own, while others may quickly become festered. Pus flows from one side of the nail groove to the subcutaneous tissue at the root of the nail and the nail groove on the opposite side, forming a semicircular abscess.

If the toenail becomes inflamed repeatedly, it may easily cause subungual abscess, and in severe cases it may cause osteomyelitis. Paronychia and ingrown toenails will not heal on their own if not treated, and will become festered over time. If the toenails are not treated for a long time, they will become seriously deformed, leading to damage to the nail bed and eventually toenails being missing. In severe cases, the nails may even stop growing. These are the dangers of paronychia.

How should paronychia be treated?

The reason why the nail groove is infected by bacteria is mostly because there has been trauma to the nail and its surroundings, and these traumas may sometimes be just small, tiny wounds. Therefore, you should pay attention to protecting yourself and avoid getting injured. Once a small wound occurs, do not be careless and use iodine to clean and disinfect it in time.

When it comes to toenails, you should usually pay attention to giving them some space. When buying shoes, don't choose a size that is too small, and also pay attention to the style. Narrow-headed shoes like peep-toe shoes will make your feet look smaller, but they will cause your toenails to grow slowly into the flesh. So it is better to buy a looser style so that the toes are not too crowded.

For those who sweat a lot on their feet, they should be especially careful when choosing the materials of shoes and socks. Buy breathable leather shoes, wear sneakers as little as possible, choose pure cotton socks with good sweat absorption, change socks frequently, and dry the insoles frequently. Don't keep your feet in shoes for a long time, because sweat from your feet and the humid environment can easily breed bacteria.

Cutting nails is a sign of cleanliness, but some friends are too cruel and always cut their nails very short. In fact, this practice is not only easy to accidentally injure your fingers, but also makes it easy for the nails to drill into the flesh during the growth process. Therefore, you should know when to cut your nails; too short is not good either.

If the inflammation is severe and suppuration has occurred, you should go to the hospital for incision and drainage while continuing to take antibiotics to drain the pus, which will help the inflammation heal.

When incision and drainage do not improve the condition, the situation is more serious and requires going to the hospital for better treatment.