What causes a baby’s toenail to bend downward?

Baby’s toenails bend downward, may be too long toenails, nail malnutrition, trauma, gingivitis and other factors.
1. long toenails: long time not to the toenail trimming, will lead to the baby’s toenails downward curved, is a normal physiological phenomenon, trimming toenails can be restored to normal.
2. Nail malnutrition: long time partiality and picky eating, resulting in the lack of nutrients in the baby’s body, easy to cause nail malnutrition, which will lead to downward curved toenails, may also be accompanied by body wasting and other symptoms.
3. Trauma: such as excessive extrusion or heavy objects, resulting in localized damage to the toenail, which will cause the toenail to bend downward, and may also be accompanied by pain and swelling and other symptoms.
4. Inguinitis: usually associated with bacterial infection, when the infection is serious, it will cause the toenail to bend downward, and in severe cases, it will also grow into the flesh, accompanied by pain, swelling, pus and other symptoms.
Baby toenail downward curved, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.