What is the wild meat near the nail on the arm and leg? How to treat wild meat on the nail folk remedies, celandine, laser?

The article describes the main causes of the appearance and ways of treating wild meat on the fingers and toes.

Unsuccessful manicure, heredity, and a number of other unfavorable factors can lead to ingrown nails into the nearby skin. The finger begins to ache, the skin becomes inflamed and, as a result, a growth is formed, called wild meat.

This disease affects the big toes and hands, both adults and children. The remaining fingers undergo this pathology extremely rarely.

Wild meat near the nail on the foot

What is wild meat with ingrown nails?

Wild meat is a pathological phenomenon, expressed by the ingrowth of the nail plate into soft perigranular tissue.

The development of the disease occurs in several stages:

• first occurs inflammation of the nail tissue, expressed by the reddening and swelling of the
• , then the inflammation passes into the purulent infectious phase, since the ingrown nail is perceived by the tissue cells as a foreign body
• , as a result, the wildest meat, a painful tumor growth

IMPORTANT: If at the stage of tumor formation does not begin treatment, then the process from acute inflammatory to chronic. In this case, the infection enters the lymph nodes and begins lymphadenitis.

Wild meat on the toe

To diagnose the disease in time it is necessary to pay attention to the symptomatology:

• the place of ingrown nail surface in the skin begins to ache
• pain is accompanied by a gradual swelling of
• over time, the pain acquires the character of the "burning" at the lesion
• the tumor acquires red and increases in size

IMPORTANT: Do not delay the treatment "for later", as soon as there will inevitably appear suppuration, and thenWell do not be able to do without the help of a surgeon.

Causes of wild meat near the nails of the hands and feet

Specialists identify several causes of the appearance of wild meat - a disease called scientifically onychomycosis :

• wrong nail cutting - too deep cutting edges
• congenital pathology - enlarged nail roller or nail plate hascurved form
• nail injury
• wearing narrow shoes
• fungal infections
• flatfoot

So, the reasons for the appearance of wild meat are different, and the conclusion is one - do not ignoreth e pain, and early treatment.

Wearing narrow shoes often causes the formation of wild meat on the toes

Wild meat on the finger and legs treatment

Therapy of this ailment can be divided into two versions:

• traditional ( using gentle procedures using laser, radio waves or plates, and inparticularly neglected cases - the surgeon)
• home ( a variety of folk remedies).

Consider each treatment option in more detail.

Wild meat on the toe and hands treatment with folk remedies

Home or folk therapy abounds in means and, if the case is not particularly severe, everyone can find an acceptable way of treatment for themselves.

First of all, you need to make warm baths to steam out the lesion, then gently insert between the edge of the nail and the skin a cotton flagellum and cut off the ingrown part of the nail surface.

IMPORTANT: If the site of the lesion is already festered, then after the water treatment it is necessary to compress the ichthyoli ointment for the night to draw pus, and in the morning to shear the softened corners of the ingrown nails.

For baths you can use chamomile broth, manganese-soda solution or salt, preferably marine .

Manganese-soda bath for hands with wild meat on the fingers

It can be effective and to reduce the thickness of the nail surface by 2/3 by grinding the nail file or nadfile. This makes the nail soft and allows adapting to narrow shoes. To avoid recurrence, the procedure should be carried out at least twice a month. Those who suffer from congenital pathology, it is necessary to use this method throughout life.

Another common and very effective folk remedy against wild meat is iodine .They can either lubricate the growths themselves for drying, or put iodine flagella under an ingrown nail. However, this procedure requires patience, since only systematic treatment - daily lubrication - will give the expected result.

A good remedy for the removal of inflammation in wild meat are ointments - "Levomekol" and "Vishnevsky" , which can be used to treat the first and second stages of the disease by applying compresses overnight.

Levomekol from inflammation with wild meat

Recipe: In order not to waste time and money on a pharmacy, you can make the ointment yourself according to a proven folk prescription: take a fresh chicken yolk, a teaspoon of vinegar, a spoon of pork ghee and mix thoroughly until smooth. Lubricate the mixture with the place of damage each day, wrapping a finger in a warm cloth.

However, it is impossible to apply ointments for directly treating wild meat, as this will only increase the tumor.

You can get rid of "wild meat" at home using the following methods:

• treat the sore spot immediately with hydrogen peroxide, and then with liquid from the warts "Cleaner".First, this procedure causes a strong burning sensation. Then a crust is formed, which you need to remove the next day and repeat the procedure. Do not apply any bandages at all, shoes should be open for the period of treatment.
• should be used to mend "wild meat" with burnt alum every other day, and iodine daily, without ripping the formed black skin of
  with a pink solution of potassium permanganate if it is a questionabout minor build-ups of
• with xeroform

Xerobe for the treatment of wild meat

Wild meat with celandine treatment: there are discharges of

Another effective way of home treatment is to cauterize "wild meat"fresh celandine juice, which stands out on the slices of the green stems of the plant.

During the procedure, the treatment site bites very much, like after biting several bees simultaneously, then after a while the liquid is released. Do not worry, since tincture of celandine is sodium hydroxide, which gives an alkaline burn, so excretion is a natural reaction of the body.

If you are not sure about folk remedies, then it's better to turn to traditional ways of treating "wild meat".

When treating wild meat with celandine, the discharge can be observed

Operation to remove wild meat on the finger with laser

This treatment option is considered to be a quick and painless way to get rid of tissue surpluses formed near the damaged nail plate.

IMPORTANT: The removal of wild meat occurs with the help of a carbon dioxide laser by evaporation of the affected cells. Healthy tissues are not affected during this procedure and, accordingly, are not damaged.

The laser cuts the nail, everything is cleaned and the laser is cauterized. The operation lasts about ten minutes under local anesthesia, leaves no scars and, according to specialists, relapse is completely excluded.

Removal of wild meat with laser

The main thing is not to repeat the actions that led to the formation of wild meat.

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