Injured toenails that are bruised and blackened should be promptly taken to a hospital for cleaning, disinfecting, wrapping, and physical therapy. If the bruising is serious, the injured toenail should be removed if necessary.
1. Cleaning, disinfection, wrapping: If the patient is only slightly bruised, and there is no sign of pus, you only need to use iodine pomade to simply clean, disinfect and then wrap to prevent the toenail from becoming infected. Blackening is only caused by blood accumulation, so there is no need to worry too much.
2. Physical therapy: If the patient’s toenail damage is mild, and there is no other discomfort except blackening, physical therapy such as hot compresses and infrared irradiation can be carried out, which can promote the patient’s local blood circulation and accelerate the recovery of the injured toenail.
3. Remove toenail: If the patient’s toenail injury is serious, or the area under the toenail pus, you can go to the hospital, take the treatment means of removing the toenail, and then remove the nail bed bruises, iodine pov disinfection and local application of erythromycin ointment, and finally wrapped with clean gauze. At the same time, you can follow the doctor’s instructions to take oral antibiotics such as ofloxacin capsules to prevent infection.
It is recommended to go to the hospital to improve the examination, after a clear diagnosis to take targeted treatment, not to private treatment, so as not to cause adverse consequences.