Nails grow into the flesh is called ingrown nails, is the nail plate into the skin tissue around the nail caused by the inflammatory reaction, ingrown nails are usually associated with excessive nail trimming, trauma and other factors, generally need to be based on the severity of the choice of conservative treatment, surgical treatment.
1. Conservative treatment: For patients with mild and moderate ingrown nails, with slight redness, swelling and pain in the local nail plate, without obvious abscess or ulcer formation, you can use topical erythromycin ointment, mupirocin ointment and other anti-infective treatments, and use cotton pads in the nail plate embedded in the adjacent nail grooves, to separate the ingrown nails from the soft tissues.
2. Surgery: For patients with moderate or severe ingrown nails or those who are ineffective in conservative treatment, it is generally necessary to carry out surgical treatment such as nail plate avulsion, nail matrix removal, and so on, to remove the affected part of the nail plate. Local tissue inflammation is serious, pus need incision and drainage, appropriate oral azithromycin, clarithromycin and other antibiotics anti-infection treatment.
If the patient’s nails have grown into the flesh, usually need to avoid the embedded nail parts of the extrusion friction, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the problem, and comply with the doctor’s instructions to use medication or other treatments.