PODIATRIST DISCUSSES TREATMENT OF INGROWN TOENAILS

An ingrown toenail can be painful and tricky to treat, said Dr. John Beronio, a podiatrist and attending physician with The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. It generally occurs, he said, because people cut their toenails the wrong way. "People will cut down into the corner, leaving a little piece of that corner, and that spike of nail they leave behind grows inward into the skin."

Dr. John Beronio

Once the skin is punctured, that's when it becomes painful." His suggestion: "Simply cut the nail straight across." The nail can also be treated with soaking and antibiotic ointments, if not treated by a doctor. 

Source: John Petrick, northjersey.com [9/13/14] 

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News. 

Brought to you by Doctor John A. Hardy, owner of Toronto's foot clinic, Academy Foot and Orthotic Clinics.