Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Nail seperated from the nail bed? How can i help it heal?

I got acryllic nails about a week and a half ago. My boyfriend and I were goofing off last night, and i was trying to push his hand away because he was tickling me, and the acryllic nail went into the palm of his hand. He pushed back on my hand, not realizing he was pushing on the nail, and the acryillic flew off, and my finger started bleeding.





I put ice on it for the pain and swelling (maybe for 10 minutes) and i looked at the injury and noticed that my fingernail had seperated from the nail bed about halfway to cuticle. I cleaned it throughouly with rubbing alchohol and wrapped it in bandaids to keep from jostling it around in my sleep. When i woke up, I removed the bandaids and recleaned the wound.





From what i could see, the nail bed seemed to have rebonded slightly with the nail, but it felt like there was pressure under the nail. So I squeezed a little, and pulled back the tip of my finger and out came a clear liquid.





Is this normal? What can i do to help it heal?Nail seperated from the nail bed? How can i help it heal?
I would use an antibiotic salve to get down into the area where the nail has loosened. To be on the safe side, call your Dr. and talk to a member of the care team. A fungus could develop and your could loose the nail permanently. Nails do not reattach themselves after they have been injured in this manner. It will take a long time for the nail to grow out. Make sure your manicurist is using an anti-fungal medication on all your nails.Nail seperated from the nail bed? How can i help it heal?
Something like that happened to me before. There's nothing you can really do for it. I just let it grow out, and evetually the part where the nail was separated from the nail bed grew out, I just trimmed it. Now it's fine.

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