Half of the nail can be treated with general care, and if necessary, medication, debridement and suturing, nail bed repair and other treatments.
1. General care: If the nail is half lost, without bleeding or less bleeding, you can use iodophor to disinfect it locally, and then use gauze or band-aid to bandage it, avoiding water and keeping the area clean and dry. Nails are regenerative, and if the nail bed is not damaged, the nails will grow back slowly.
2. Medication: In order to avoid infection, you can use mupirocin ointment and erythromycin ointment to apply locally, as well as oral amoxicillin, erythromycin capsules and other anti-inflammatory drugs; when the pain is severe, you can take ibuprofen orally to relieve the pain.
3. Other treatments: If the nail falls half, accompanied by nail bed damage, bleeding increased in the case, you need to consult a doctor in a timely manner, by the doctor to clear the wound suture treatment; nail bed damage will affect the growth of the nails, if necessary, need to carry out the repair of the nail bed treatment; wounds are larger, deeper, you also need to be injected with tetanus vaccine.
It is recommended that patients who have lost half of their nails should seek medical attention in time, standardize the treatment under the guidance of the doctor, and avoid using medication privately to avoid delaying the condition.