Laser treatment
For a long time, the laser has been used successfully in place of a scalpel in many fields of medicine. The ingrown nail was no exception. The meaning of laser treatment of this ailment lies in laser processing of the site of the growing nail, after processing the nail on this place will no longer grow.
The advantages of this technique:
- 100% disposal of ingrown nail plate;
- absence of re-ingrowth of the nail plate, that is, no relapse;
- short rehabilitation period;
- painless procedure.
The disadvantages of this technique are:
- after the laser removal procedure, nail growth is disrupted;
- the violation of nail growth can contribute to the development of the fungus;
- according to data provided by the German sub-sociological society, after this procedure, after five to seven years, delayed complications were observed;
- in 90% there was a parallel growing nail.
Surgery
Surgical treatment consists in partial or complete removal of the ingrown nail plate with its bed, as well as part of the peri-osophilic bead. To exclude relapse after resection under the nail form a new bed.
Pros of this treatment:
- radical removal of the problem.
The disadvantages of this treatment are:
- The postoperative period is painful;
- the healing period is more than two weeks;
- possible repeated ingrowing of the nail plate, high probability of relapse;
- deformation of the nail.
Operation Bartlett
This operation is in the list of popular surgical techniques for the treatment of ingrown nails. There is this surgical intervention so - next to the ingrown plate dissect a piece of soft tissue, then tightening the edges of the defect, impose seams.
Advantages of such an operation:
- absence of complications.
Cons of this operation:
- A new nail plate grows with an absent middle.
Treatment with plates
This type of treatment does not have any discomfort and various kinds of discomfort.
Currently, the most progressive method of treating ingrown nail plate is treatment with the use of special correction technology, which uses correcting plates or staples.
Pros of this treatment:
- when wearing no discomfort;
- no surgical intervention;
- absence of complications;
- the appearance of the nail is corrected;
- It is suitable in cases when other methods of treatment do not help;
- no relapse.
The disadvantages of this treatment are:
- It takes time for a gradual correction of the nail.
All of the above methods of treating ingrown nail plate are quite effective. However, for people who trust the methods of treatment, time-tested and developed by folk healers, we will cite several folk recipes to combat the abovementioned disease.
Recipes of traditional medicine
Trays for feet with the use of potassium permanganate. For 5 liters of water, 100 ml of a 5% solution of potassium permanganate. With ingrown nail plate can be used for foot baths and for hand. Dissolve Marganetsovka in hot fresh water. And keep your feet in this water for 30 minutes. During this time, the nail will soften, and you can remove the edges of the nail plate with sharp tips of the scissors. Baths should be done 2-4 days, until the inflammatory process completely stops.
Soda solution. 3 liters of water will need 2 tons. spoons of baking soda and tincture of iodine. Soda is bred in water with an approximate temperature of 40 o C, hot enough, as far as you can tolerate, poured into the pelvis. We lower a finger with a grown-up fingernail in a basin with a soda solution and properly steam out. The skin should be well soaked, the ingrown part of the nail plate should be pruned, and then this place should be treated with iodine and put an ointment bandage.
Soda-salt baths. For 3-5 liters of water, I need tincture of iodine, 100 grams of sea salt, 50 grams of baking soda. Soda and salt are bred in 40 ° C water. Finiteness with ingrown nails, steam, gently prun the ingrown portion of the nail, treat it with iodine and apply a softening ointment bandage.
We strengthen nails with vitamin composition. For 200 ml of any vegetable oil, take 5-10 drops of iodine, one or two capsules of vitamin A. In the oil, add vitamin A (5000 IU) and iodine. Composition twice a week, strengthen the nails on the limbs. After the procedure, it is recommended to rub cranberry, lemon, blackcurrant juice, table or apple cider vinegar into the okolonogevuyu skin.
Therapeutic composition for the treatment of nails. For 3 liters of water you will need an egg yolk, one teaspoon of glycerin and vinegar, one tablespoon of baking soda and vegetable oil (corn, sunflower, rapeseed). We beat the yolk, we add glycerin, vinegar, butter. Separately we grow soda in warm water. We put the oil solution on the nail, hold it for about 10 minutes, put on cotton socks, lie down and with raised legs, lie for half an hour. Then we remove socks and for 10 minutes we lower the limb into a basin with a warm soda solution.
Phytheorecepts for the treatment of ingrown nail plate
Ointment with Calendula. We take 200 grams of poultry fat (goose, turkey, chicken) and 50 grams of reed calendula flowers. Fat melt and pour the finely chopped calendula. When ingrown nail plate is used as an anti-inflammatory agent.
Ointment for the treatment of this ailment. Take 1 teaspoon of beeswax, one tablespoon of aloe juice, gruel onions, garlic cloves, melted butter. Onion and garlic mash mix with aloe juice, add butter, pre-melted and beeswax, mix thoroughly and put on a water bath, cook, stirring constantly for 5 minutes (for stirring we use a wooden spoon). Remove from heat, cool the mixture to room temperature, apply a thick layer of ingrown nail, apply a cabbage leaf on the mixture (before using, either hold a minute in hot water or slightly repel) and, wrapping a finger, wrap it with a warm cloth. The procedures are repeated until full recovery every day.
Chamomile infusion. 2 liters of boiling water, tincture of iodine, 6 tbsp. spoons of camomile flowers.
Chamomile fill with boiling water, cover with a lid, we insist one hour, filter, pour into the pelvis. In 40 o C, let's drop our legs and hold until the water cools. After you blot the skin, carefully remove the ingrown portion of the nail from the soft tissue. Next, raise the edges, and put a small cotton swab dipped in iodine. This infusion helps only in the initial stage.