Children tearing nails swollen fingertips may be related to local infection, resulting in onychomycosis.
Children have the bad habit of biting nails, tearing nails, the free edge of the nails and the surrounding skin to cause some damage; or when the weather is dry, the hands around the nails can appear barbs, if the direct force to tear, can cause bleeding, nearby muscle injuries, and then cause local bacterial infections, appearing around the nails of the soft tissues of the redness, swelling, and a sense of pain.
If not treated in time, can cause purulent inguinitis, touch with fluctuating feeling, serious cases can also be seen under the nail limited abscess.
Children tearing nails swollen fingertips may also have other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, to give targeted treatment or treatment.