How do you treat an ingrown FINGERnail?

My husband has a very inflamed and PAINFUL ingrown FINGERnail. Not toenail. Is there any way to treat this from home? Clearly, it is infected. He keeps asking me if it can just run its course, without leading to him having to go to a doctor, which he refuses to do. And perhaps he doesn't even have to go to a doctor, but I would like to be sure.





He has been spraying it with freezing spray for the pain and taking Ibuprofen, as well. Aside from that, he has taken nothing. He is using a lot of Antibacterial cream and is (finally) keeping it covered with a bandage.





Does anyone know anything about how he should treat this and how he can REMOVE the piece of nail that exists in there.





Thanks.How do you treat an ingrown FINGERnail?
If it's infected, he should probably see a doctor. If he refuses, try this: to get the nail to stop growing into the finger, soak it in warm water with epsom salts for 15 minutes. The warm water will soften the nail and the epsom salts will help if it's infected. Then wedge a small piece of wet cotton under the nail where it is growing inwards to keep the edge from cutting into the skin and to allow the nail to grow out so it can be trimmed. The illustration is for a toenail, but it's the same idea: http://body.aol.com/tools/how-to-treat-a鈥?/a>How do you treat an ingrown FINGERnail?
My husband had the same thing. We soaked his figure in Epson Salt and warm water. It got better and didn't hurt anymore in a day or so.
send him to the urgent care.
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