What to do if your baby’s toenail grows into the flesh

Baby toenails growing into the flesh belong to ingrown toenails, can improve the symptoms through general treatment, medication, surgery and other treatment modalities.
1. General treatment: If the baby’s ingrown nails are mild, you can soak the feet in warm soapy water to soften the nails, and then cut off the nails that have grown into the flesh.
2. medication: if the local secondary infection, need to use iodophor to disinfect the treatment, under the guidance of the doctor to use antibiotic anti-infection treatment, such as mupirocin ointment, etc.; the infection is more serious, oral antibiotic treatment, such as erythromycin granules and so on.
3. Surgery: If the nails penetrate deeper into the flesh, the condition is more serious, then you need to take a surgical way to remove the nails, the treatment of ingrown nails.
Baby embedded nails, it is recommended to take the baby to the hospital in time if necessary, so as not to delay the condition, affecting the baby’s health. Usually, you should give your baby comfortable and breathable shoes and socks to reduce the recurrence of ingrown nails.