How To Tell If You Cut Finger Nails Too Short

Clipping nails too short is dangerous, dermatologist says

By Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter

A dermatologist yesterday brash people to avert clipping their nails besides short afterwards the practice caused a fifth-form uncomplicated student to endure from a painful status called paronychia, an infection of the soft tissue surrounding the nail.

Co-ordinate to Shu-Tien Clinic dermatologist Hsu Chia-chi (徐嘉琪), the boy had experienced on-and-off hurting in both of his big toes for nearly 6 months and the condition was aggravated if he ran or jumped.

"The condition made walking a misery for the child. We had attempted to remove part of the nails from the male child's toes to assuage his discomfort, only the left toe became severely inflamed, with granulation tissue forming a calendar month afterwards, leading us to believe he had developed paronychia," Hsu said.

Hsu said paronychia can afflict people at any historic period and that it is characterized by soft tissue inflammation around a smash that can trigger swelling and hurting.

The male child was put on antibiotics and underwent an electrocautery process, and then wore nail correction patches for two months, Hsu said.

"He likewise followed our advice that he alter the mode he cutting his nails and wear shoes with wide fronts, and has recovered well," she added.

Hsu said nearly patients with paronychia tended to trim their nails short and round, and to clean the dirt from underneath, which she said tin can cause the nail to grow in and enter the pare, which increases the run a risk of paronychia.

It is brash that people leave at to the lowest degree a 1mm gap around the edge of the smash and shape information technology foursquare rather than round or triangular, Hsu said, adding that the best fourth dimension to cut nails is after a shower considering the warm water softens them and makes them easier to trim.

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