What to do if the edges of your nails hurt

Nail edge pain can be considered to be caused by ingrown nails, ingrown nails or onychomycosis, etc. Physiotherapy, topical medication or surgery can be used to improve the symptoms.
1. Reverse peeling: also known as ingrown nails, can be caused by occupational injuries or nail biting fetish, etc., which can lead to further tearing of the skin around the nails when tearing them off, causing pain. It is recommended to use scissors to cut off the nails at the root, and to correct the bad habit of nail biting.
2. ingrown nails: nails in the armor plate side edge long into the soft tissue, like a foreign body inserted into the nail groove caused by local pain, mainly to prevent the main, avoid nail trauma and manicure too short, too deep, inflammation light with iodine tincture, if the symptoms are serious and can not be cut out by yourself, you should go to the hospital in a timely manner, dealt with by the doctor, in serious cases, you need to pull out the nails.
3. Nail groin infection: tiny puncture wounds, reverse stripping, cutting nails too deep, etc. can be caused by septic infection of the nail groove and surrounding tissues, resulting in pain, in the absence of pus, the local application of ichthyol cream ointment and other compresses for treatment; there is an abscess formation, the need for surgical incision and drainage, the root of the nail abscesses need to be extracted from the nails.
Nail edge pain, it is recommended to timely to the regular hospital, follow the doctor’s instructions on the cause of the symptomatic treatment.