Ensure Right Toenail Pain Treatment with Ingrown Toenail Home Treatment Kit

 An ingrown toenail, also known as onychocryptosis, is a painful condition of the toe. It occurs when a sharp corner or edge of the toenail digs into the skin at the end of or side of the toe.

Pain and inflammation at the spot where the nail curls into the skin occurs first. Later, the inflamed area can begin to grow extra tissue or drain yellowish fluid. Any nail can become ingrown, but the condition is usually found in the big toe.

Ingrown toenails are common in adults and adolescents but less common in children and infants. They are more common in men than in women. If left untreated, an ingrown toenail can progress to an infection or even an abscess that could require surgical treatment.

Tight-fitting shoes or high heels cause the toes to be compressed together and pressure the nail to grow abnormally. Improper trimming of toenails can cause the corners of the nail to dig into the skin. Nails should be trimmed straight across, not rounded.

Disorders such as fungal infections of the nail can cause a thickened or widened toenail to develop. Either an acute injury near the nail or any trauma that causes the nail to be damaged repetitively can also cause an ingrown Toenail Pain.

If a member of your family has an ingrown toenail, then you are more likely to develop one, too. Some people's nails are normally more rounded than others or the underlying bone can be more "upturned," which increases the chance of developing ingrown nails.

Early in the course of an ingrown toenail, the end of the toe becomes reddened and painful with mild swelling. There is no pus or drainage. It may feel warm to the touch, but you will not have a fever.

Later, extra skin and tissue will grow around the sharp point of the nail. A yellowish drainage may begin. This is the body's response to the trauma of a nail irritating the skin and is not necessarily an infection.

Choose Ingrown Toenail Treatment Kit to treat your toenail painlessly. The Invisi-Brace will realign the placement of your nail to lay properly on a new pain free nail groove. Repair your painful toenail at home with Ingrown Toenail Home Treatment Kit.