Why does my 13 year old son keep getting ingrown toenails?!
Question: We have been to 2 foot doctors , got him new shoes and he has another in grown nail that is bothering him. We had one cut out already by the doctor.
Answers: We have been to 2 foot doctors , got him new shoes and he has another in grown nail that is bothering him. We had one cut out already by the doctor.
Hello,
I used to have that problem and nothing cured it but an operation. My foot doc explained it like this: some people have infections/waste in their body that they body tries to get rid off. This is especially prominent in adolescence when all the hormones are pumping etc....For some people the body gets rid of it through acne for example...others get the flu easily (keep having sore throats etc)...some have ingrown toe nails.
There are a number of things you can do to 'manage' the condition like the salt foot baths, using tea tree oil directly or in water when soaking feet etc etc. But for me nothing cured it...I had to have an operation which involved cutting the nail on both sides right down to the root and burning the root. This is a more complicated procedure than the one your son already had. I had a number of visits to the doc where he just cut the nail on the side....but the problem came back as soon as the nail grew back. Getting rid of the root of the nail on the sides is the best way to go. The toes won't look bad afterward. There is a slight difference in the width of the nail only, but that's it. For me...after I had this operation, the problem never came back.
Hope this helps!
He's cutting them waaay too short, and/or his shoes are waay too small.
It's genetical.
um mabey his cuting his toe nails to short
make sure he washes them properly and that his shoes are not to tight oh and if he is goin swiming make sure he wears sandles when he gets out
i used to have that but i started cutting them in round shape and it stopped happening (it is hard to do it i used to pass like 30 minutes for that nail only)
Sound genetic, if you or the dad have a history in youre family of it, like phriosis or anything else it will be, I can only suggest, soaking the feet in epsion salt atleast weekly and let the nails grow long for a while as to cutting them
If you're cutting the nails of your son (feet) make sure that don't follow the shape of the nail. Just cut straight.
Could be the shoes he's wearing are too tight around the toes and also he might be letting little end snippets of the nails when he trims them.
The other thing is he could have a slight deformity in his toes like some people have toes that point inwards and that sometimes causes the outer edges to become ingrown.
One thing you might have him do to correct this is to cut a "V" at the center of each nail periodically--that sometimes helps.
Hope this helps...
ok, i used to have ingrown toenails when i was younger...(this may not work in the case of your son) i stopped cutting my toenails real short and in the quick & started cutting them straight across only after each toenail reached some beyond the tip of the flesh of my toe