Ingrown toenail =(, IT HURTS Options

[stephinika]

Fack, sooo my toe hurt and I looked and saw my that the nail on my bigtoe was kinda digging into my skin on the side so I used a nail clipper to cut it shorter on the side so it didn't dig in so much. Well, its been a day and I think its gotten a lil' infected cause its a bit swollen and hurts like a BITCH and looks a bit pus-like and gross.


I don't want my toe to fall off. Ahhhh! [/rant]


Err, what do I do? I've been putting polysporin...haha, anyone had this before? Blah.

[Just_Dream]

You should definitely see a doctor -- maybe your college doctor or something, if you live on campus. Anyways, you need to get on some antibiotics because if it's infected, most likely there's some kind of bacterial infection. I mean, your feet touches the ground and the ground is pretty dirty, lol.

As for a sanitary solution, don't wear any open-toed shoes, and make sure to wash your feet often with lukewarm water and some kind of antibacterial soap, as well as wearing socks (cushion your feet against the shoe). Hopefully this helps, although I've never had this situation. I know I got a splinter on the tip of my finger one time and it got infected pretty badly, but I didn't go see the doctor. I washed it as often as I could and eventually the skin over the splinter became dead -- then I clipped it off and removed the splinter. That took over a week though. D:

Good luck and that is really unfortunate. :[ And Thomas, no offense but this isn't a joking matter, so if you can't help, don't post.