Ingrown toenails and other problems with toenails

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The causes of an ingrown toenail are:

• Improperly (too short) trimmed toenails, leaving the nail plate too far from its proper edge. This pink, soft skin becomes inflamed, and friction from shoes on the toe becomes agonizing.
• Injury, such as stubbing a toe or having someone step on your toe.
• Bad - Fits. Shoes that put pressure on the inside edge of the big toe.
• Running and the resulting pounding and pressure on toes from shoes that are too short.
• Bed sheets believe it or not; tucked too tightly around toes.

People suffering from an ingrown toenail may also notice the following:

The nail will not correct the situation by itself: it will not properly grow out.
Trimming the nail back as it grows becomes less easy and much very sensitive.
Even contact with your shoes and socks can cause pain in the area where you have the impacted toenail.

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Getting a bit too busy cutting your toenails can bring you straight to the uncomfortable situation of having an impacted or ingrown toenail(onychocryptosis). This occurs when the edge of the nail grows directly into the surrounding tissue of the toe, causing pain and discomfort.
You can first seen an impacted toenail directly after trimming your toenails. If the nail looks like it has been cut back too far, exposing the pink tissue around the edge, you may have an impacted toenail. Over time, you may develop a feeling of discomfort and tenderness, and the tissue around the edge may become red and swollen. As the impacted toenail continues growing into the tissue around it, hurting becomes more severe, making simply getting around and even sitting difficult.

The easiest way to prevent an impacted toenail is to take extra care when cutting your toenails:

• Keep the nails of your toes short – not longer than the tips of your toes.
• Take good note of the natural line of your toenails, and trim them with care, straight across, with specially designed toenail clippers. (see links above to purchase them!)

Make sure you do not pry or cut into the corners of your toenails when trimming.Also try following these tips to take proper care of an ingrown toenail, or to prevent one from developing in the future:

• Use a not too small toenail clipper to prevent slipups and mishaps.
• Never try to dig down into the corners of your nailbed.
• Wear the right, properly fitting shoes with some room in thefront (especially if you already have an impacted toenail).
• Soak affected feet to keep them clean and antiseptic.
• Use a mild antiseptic to soak your toes in.

Remember: Don’t make your ingrown toenail worse in an attempt to improve them. As the nail begins to cut into the skin, many people will attempt to remedy the situation by trimming away the extended nail; yet this only makes things worse, resulting in even deeper ingrow of the impacted toenail into toe flesh. "Bathroom surgery" is absolutely not the proper way to remedy an impacted toenail, proper nailcare is!

If the problem does not go away, be sure to see a podiatrist to have the offending edges removed.