Hey there - I know this is probably a weird topic to bring up here, but we're reaching the last resort - surgery.
My son has had an ingrown toenail that is just getting worse and worse. Last year he had three courses of antibiotics - then we found another Dr who believes in not giving antibiotics (thank goodness). He then had part of his toenail removed down to the nailbed. However, the skin keeps growing over it and it's been very sore and infected for months now. He's been seeing the Dr once a week to get the skin burnt off, but the Dr says it's the worst ingrown toenail he's seen (and he's been a Dr for a very long time!) and as it's continuing to get worse the only resort left is surgery. By the way, DS has been wearing no shoes or special fat shoes that don't touch his toe. Before we started going to Drs we also tried tea tree oil and raw honey on the toe.
Anyone got any suggestions?
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Thanks for your suggestion - that's actually one of the things the dr had him do, but only twice a day for a week (my son wasn't too happy about it!).
But the problem seems to be more the skin. The toenail still hasn't reached the side of the toe since it was cut back (dr cut a wedge out, down to the nailbed). The biggest problem is that even within a week of the skin being burnt off it grows back. The dr calls it 'proud flesh' - there is just too much there. Not sure why it's growing so rampantly.
Lol - wait on him because he's my baby - you obviously think I'm much nicer than I am (actually, I could probably take a couple of days of work for him - but he's fifteen and very self-sufficient)! No really, if it gives him relief and works it wouldn't be too much of a problem. However I've heard it quite often doesn't fix the problem and people have to have it done repeatedly.
Anyway, thanks for your help and support - I'll let you know how it goes next weekend.
Skye
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