Can You Trim Your Own Nails?

Inflammatory nail attack generally can not be trimmed, need to seek medical treatment, and also need to follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, surgery and so on.
Patients should not trim their own nails during an attack of onychomycosis to avoid improper operation, which may aggravate the condition. Patients need to consult a doctor, who will use sterile tools to trim the nails to avoid inward growth of the nails.
Acute inguinitis patients usually also need to follow the doctor’s instructions for local topical aluminum acetate solution or chlorhexidine solution for local rinsing, if chronic inguinitis, can follow the doctor’s instructions for local use of fusidic acid cream, compound polymyxin B ointment and other antibiotic drug treatment.
At the same time, acute inguinitis patients have clear abscess formation or conservative treatment failure, then need to carry out nail extraction, abscess incision drainage and other surgical treatment. In the case of chronic onychomycosis, surgical treatment is required on an elective basis.