Nail care is an important part of keeping your feet healthy. Proper nail trimming and a good polish can help keep nails from splitting and growing too long, which can irritate the skin. It’s important to take care of your nails at home in order to avoid an infection or any other problem that may arise.
In order to treat toenails at home, it’s important to be able to care for your nails correctly. You need to trim your cuticles from time-to-time and use a proper nail clipper, and you should file and buff them with a soft emery board.
It’s also important that you file your nails in one direction across the surface of the nail, instead of using circular motions.
Why do toenails become thick?
Toenails become thick because of the increased pressure of the toes on the nail bed. This causes irritation, resulting in hyperkeratosis, which is a thickening of the nail plate. Leverage a toenail’s sensitivity and the nail bed’s recessive ability to trigger a strong immune response.
Our nails can also become thick because of a condition called onychomycosis, which is an infection caused by fungus.
How to Handle Toenail Fungus?
The treatment for toenail fungus is a topical antifungal medication applied to the affected nail and surrounding skin. It may take months of regular use to clear up the infection, and for best results it should be used in conjunction with other self-care practices such as wearing well-fitting shoes and not picking at the nail.
However, as toenail fungus can be contagious, people should avoid sharing footwear or socks with those who might have an active infection.
How to Prevent and Treat Ingrown Toenails?
Ingrown toenails are usually caused by improper cutting of the nail. It is most common in people with ingrown nails due to their abnormal shape. To prevent or treat an ingrown toenail, it is advised that someone wear open-backed shoes that allow for ventilation and reduce pressure on the toe.
An ingrown toenail should be treated with a topical solution, analgesics, and antibiotics if necessary. Ingrown toenails are often caused by improper nail care techniques or wearing shoes that put pressure on the toes and nails, such as pointy-toed stiletto heels.
When a toenail curls and touches or invades into the skin, bacteria can grow in the area and cause infection. To prevent ingrown toenails, cut nails straight across rather than rounding off the corners.
Causes of ingrown toenails
Heredity
Heredity is the physical manifestation in an organism of its genetic material. The genes in our DNA are passed down from our parents, and over time they contribute to the traits that we inherit.
Most ingrown toenails are caused by an ingrown nail, which occurs when one or more corners of the nail grow into the skin rather than curving away. This can be due to tight shoe or boot wear, especially with pointy or squared-off toes.
Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring. An ingrown toenail is caused by an infection that causes the skin to grow into the nailbed, causing pain and discomfort.
fitting footwear
Ingrown toenails is a condition in which the nail bed is embedded into the skin and causes acute pain and swelling. The cause of ingrown toenails is improperly fitting footwear, such as wearing shoes that are too tight or too loose, which can lead to toes rubbing against their surroundings.
Generally these injuries can be prevented with correct fitting footwear and by practicing good foot hygiene such as washing toes daily with soap and nail clippers to reduce buildup of dirt and germs. Fitting footwear is important because it provides the foot with necessary stability and support.
Poor fitting footwear can lead to problems such as plantar fasciitis, metatarsalgia, and corns. Causes of ingrown toenails include improper nail trimming, shoes that have a pointy toe or a tight fit, anxiety, and being overweight.
Trauma
Ingrown toenails are caused by the nail cutting into the fleshy part of the toes. This is often caused by tight shoes or nails that grow in towards one another. They also can be triggered by an infection, which results in swelling and may result in pus discharge.
The pain associated with ingrown toenails is often sharp, but may come and go depending on the severity of the situation. Ingrown toenails are most often caused by an injury or fungal infection of the skin on the top of the nail.
They also may be caused by shoes that are too tight or do not have enough room for toes to move. Certain habits can lead to chronic inflammation around the nail that worsens into an ingrown toenail, such as wearing sandals without socks.
Improper trimming
Improper toenail trimming can cause ingrown toenails. Ingrown toenails are caused by the nail edges following the contour of the toe’s shape, meaning that they grow into the skin near the edge of the nail.
The most common causes of ingrown toenails are improper trimming, tight shoes, or inherited traits. Improper trimming: There are many causes of ingrown toenails. Improperly trimmed nails and shoes that rub the nail can cause ingrown toenails.
The nail will start to grow into the skin and become painful, which is very common with athletes because they wear tight socks and shoes. The nails can also be thickened or curved.
Pedicures
A pedicure is a foot bath that includes exfoliation, callus removal, scrubbing of the feet, and polishing. Pedicures are often also accompanied by the application of lotion for moisturizing.
A common cause of ingrown toenails is sharp corners in shoes, tight socks or stockings, or fungal infection. Pedicures are a beauty treatment where you get your toenails trimmed and filed, your skin around the nail bed clipped, and sometimes your nails painted.
The cause of ingrown toenails is medically termed as onychocryptosis or ingrown toenail. It is usually brought about by pressure on the tip of the nail with one’s weight-bearing foot. This can also be triggered by wearing shoes that are too tight or improper footwear.
Poor Circulation
The causes of ingrown toenails vary from improper nail cutting, to improperly fitting shoes with tight toe boxes, to obesity. Poor circulation can be caused by diabetes or peripheral vascular disease that slows blood flow in the feet.
This causes toes to swell and nails to curl upward causing the nail edge to scrape on the nail bed. Tight shoes, high heels, and obesity can also cause pressure on the nail bed making it prone to ingrowth.
How to treat ingrown toenails?
A common and painful foot problem is an ingrown toenail. This can be caused by a variety of things, such as improper nail trimming, improper shoe wear, or too short of nails. When the nail grows into the skin it becomes infected and causes great discomfort.
To treat this you can soak your foot in warm water for 10 minutes, use a sterile cotton swab soaked in alcohol to clean around the nail and remove any dead tissue. I would recommend using a clipper to cut the ingrown nails to free any skin that has grown over the sides of the nail.
Then, I would recommend soaking the foot in warm water for 5 minutes and then carefully trimming any loose pieces of skin down to the level of the end of the nail. Once that is done, I would put some antiseptic cream on a finger or gauze pad and gently rub it onto the area around the nail.
Remove it yourself if there’s no infection
Recurring ingrown toenails
Many people get ingrown toenails, and this can be a very painful condition. This is when the nail grows into the skin surrounding it and the result is often a sore.
There are many ways to treat ingrown toenails and over-the-counter treatments like ointments and topical solutions can work wonders for some people, but sometimes surgery is necessary to remove the nail completely.
Ingrown toenails are caused by the nail bed becoming raised and pushing against the edge of the toenail. This forces the nail into the soft, fleshy tissue in an attempt to free itself. Symptoms include pain, redness, swelling, tenderness, warmth, and sometimes pus-like discharge.
Treatment consists of trimming back the ingrown portion of the toenail with a sharp pair of scissors. Oral antibiotics may be prescribed for acute cases.
Preventing ingrown toenails
Ingrown toenails can be prevented by keeping cuticles trimmed and nails filed. Using an ingrown nail file after the nail is trimmed will help prevent infection. Using drop of tea tree oil can also help keep the skin around the nail soft and free of bacteria that cause infection.
After trimming, it should also be washed with soap and water or rubbed with hydrogen peroxide. Ingrown toenails are a common foot ailment that can be painful and difficult to deal with.
The condition occurs when the edges of toe nail cut below the skin’s surface, causing it to grow into the skin, cause infection and sometimes lead to loss of toe as well as pain as a result. In order to prevent ingrown toenails it is important that you use nail clippers.
Conclusion:
The toes are the primary site of nail growth. Nails are keratinized stratified squamous epithelium. This means that they are made up layers of skin cells. Toenails develop from the keratinized epithelium of the dermis under the midline of PODL (plantar plate).
The PODL is a tough, fibrous connective tissue sheet that connects the toes to the foot. This is an interesting question that I am unsure how to answer. Perhaps, what do I think about nail on toes?
