Taking Care of an Ingrown Toenail

If you are already suffering from an ingrown toenail, finding relief is most likely a high priority. Here, FootSmart teams with The Podiatry Institute to bring you tips for taking care of an ingrown toenail. FootSmart understands that taking care of an ingrown toenail, and taking measures to prevent a reoccurrence, are crucial to helping ease pain.

Tips for the Treatment and Care of an Ingrown Toenail

• Taking care of an ingrown toenail starts with your choice of footwear. Be sure to wear appropriate fitting shoes with plenty of room in the toe box to avoid harming an ingrown toenail even further.
• You can take care of an ingrown toenail by soaking the affected feet to keep them clean and antiseptic.
• Finally, The Podiatry Institute recommends applying a mild antiseptic to the infected area to to take care of an ingrown toenail and prevent infection.

While many people try to care for an ingrown toenail on their own, many often make the situation worse. As the ingrown toenail begins to cut into the skin, people try to care for the ingrown toenail by cutting away the extended nail; yet this only exacerbates the situation, leading to even deeper imbedding of the ingrown toenail into the tender flesh. "Bathroom surgery" is definitely not the way to care for an ingrown toenail.

Products to Take Care of an Ingrown Toenail Available on FootSmart.com

FootSmart sells many products, online and via our mail-order catalog, designed to help you take the best care of an ingrown toenail. Here is a sampling of different products and categories available now for the care of an ingrown toenail:

Solutions for the Care of Ingrown Toenails

• Tender Nail Solution: Care for an ingrown toenail with this naturally derived formula. Tender Nail, formulated with salicylic acid, glycerin tea tree oil, camphor, sage and menthol, is designed to help you care for ingrown toenails by relieving discomfort.

Nail Files for the Care of Ingrown Toenails

• The standard Ingrown Toenail File helps you care for an ingrown toenail by allowing the nail to grow out --  instead of into -- tender skin.

Nail Clippers for the Care of Ingrown Toenails

• You can best take care of ingrown toenails, and avoid ingrown toenails in the future, by properly trimming your nails straight across. Using the Eloi Toenail Clippers or other specially designed scissors can help you take care of an ingrown toenail. This particular model from Eloi has ergonomically designed nippers to make trimming nails and cuticles easy for everyone.

FootSmart offers these and other products designed to help you prevent and care for an ingrown toenail.

If the problem persists, however, and you can’t take care of an ingrown toenail on your own, see a podiatrist to have the offending edges removed.

Information on foot, leg and lower body health conditions provided by The Podiatry Institute, dedicated to advancing the standard of care in podiatric medicine and its effects on muscoskeletal health.