How Does One Treat A Broken Toenail?
There is no need to involve professionals for this. • Trim it down – Very gently/carefully us nail scissors of clippers to cut the nail as short as you can for both bits of the broken nail. • Tape it up – your main objective is to protect the nail so that the split area does not catch on anything – socks, stockings, bedclothes or anything else – so that the nail rips again. And this stops any further major pain incidents too ^_^ A simple, fairly long Bandaid/Elastoplast-type protection is fine. A bit of soap and water does no harm before wrapping the feller up, but this unlikely to become infected. When it’s happened to me, that was never of significance. Do remember, we were running around in jungles, prairies, swamps for millenia barefoot with no commercial antiseptics and with little trouble (and many people still do today, often in much less salubrious places than in the West). The main thing is keeping your foot dry so it doesn’t rot. For this reason, it is best to wrap your toe s
