Can I wash my feet if I have paronychia

Many people usually have the habit of soaking their feet, especially before going to bed. Soaking your feet has many benefits for your health and can also treat many diseases. Paronychia is a common disease. It is very painful for patients to suffer from paronychia. You must pay more attention to it in normal times to avoid worsening of the disease. If you suffer from paronychia, you must actively treat it. If you suffer from paronychia, can you wash your feet?

Can I wash my feet if I have paronychia?

Concentrated salt water can kill bacteria because their concentration is greater than that of bacterial cell fluid. Because the bacterial cell wall will balance the concentration difference on both sides of the cell wall, the bacteria will lose water and cannot survive, thus achieving a bactericidal effect.

Selection of concentrated brine

Initially available

In the early stages of paronychia, soaking in concentrated salt water can indeed be used for sterilization treatment, because the fungus only causes redness and swelling in the nail groove. At this time, using mild salt water can kill the fungus in time to prevent future troubles.

Concentrated saline cannot treat moderate paronychia

If you have been suffering from paronychia for a while, for example, if the affected area has ulcers and pus, if you simply use concentrated salt water to soak the affected area, this treatment method can only eliminate redness and swelling and relieve the condition, but it cannot cure the paronychia.

Unavailable in severe cases

If paronychia has caused wounds on the feet, it is even more inappropriate to soak them in concentrated salt water, as this will aggravate the wound and make it more difficult to cure the paronychia.

Daily precautions for patients with paronychia

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. 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 olive oil 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.

The specific causes of paronychia are:

1. Children wearing inappropriate shoes: Some mothers may buy shoes that are not suitable for their children, or they have worn the shoes for a long time without changing them. The front part of the shoes appears too narrow for children to wear. Over time, the soft tissue of the toes will be squeezed, and the side edge of the toenail will be squeezed to grow into the soft tissue of the nail groove, and the nail and nail fold will be rubbed, causing soft tissue swelling and aggravating the ingrown nail, which can easily cause paronychia.

2. Trauma and ingrown toenails caused by teenagers playing football: Children often like to play sports, such as playing football, when they are in kindergarten. If the toes have been injured, such as from playing football, colliding, being hit, etc., which causes damage to the toes and affects the nail bed or nail matrix cells, the toenails will also become deformed. When the nail plate is torn due to being kicked or stepped on by others, the side edge of the nail plate is brought closer to the soft tissue of the nail groove, forming an ingrown nail and causing paronychia.