Nails grow into the flesh, i.e. ingrown nails, often followed by onychomycosis, can cause redness, swelling and pain around the nail, can be treated with medication or surgery under the guidance of a doctor.
1. Medication: If there is redness, swelling and pain around the nail, you can use antibiotic drugs externally, such as mupirocin ointment, compound polymyxin B ointment, etc., and can be combined with oral antibiotic treatment, such as amoxicillin, cefuroxime, erythromycin and so on.
2. Surgery: If the patient’s ingrown nails are more serious, recurring, with strong pain and no obvious relief after using drugs, which seriously affects the patient’s quality of life, the patient can go to the hospital to pull out the nails embedded in the flesh through surgery.
It is recommended that patients avoid excessive trimming of nails in daily life, and should consult a doctor in time when there is localized pain and discomfort, and use reasonable medication or take other treatments under the guidance of the doctor.