If you’ve ever suffered with a hangnail, you’ll understand how inconvenient they can be in your daily routine.
What is a hangnail and how do you get rid of it?
These jagged, hard shards of skin protrude from the sides of your fingernails, often snagging on fabric and shredding it even deeper. They are particularly common in the winter, when your skin is more prone to drying up and cracking due to the cold weather. However, despite their small size, these hangnails may really be rather unpleasant and uncomfortable to have. Tenderness, discomfort, swelling, and redness going down the side or below the nail are all signs of a nail infection.
Those who bite their fingernails or trim their cuticles too near to their nail bed are more likely to get hangnails than the general population.
Most significantly, the exposed skin between the nail and the hangnail poses a serious danger of infection to the patient. It may become heated and filled with pus if it has gotten infected.
Even while it may be tempting, it is crucial not to pull or bite it off since doing so would be very painful and will open the wound up to infection.
So, what can we do to remove them?
- Hands should be washed often to avoid the transmission of germs.
- Make the area softer. You may soak the nail in warm, soapy water, or you can use vaseline to apply it in a circular motion around the affected region. Allow for about 10 minutes of softening time.
- To remove the hangnail, use sterile cuticle scissors or nail clippers that have been sterilized. This is something you may want to delegate to someone else, especially if it is on your dominant hand. Make careful to just cut the loose skin and not the skin underneath it, and to remove as much of the protruding skin as possible from the cut area.
- After removing the hangnails, apply a large amount of moisturiser to the area.
- If you have accidentally drawn blood, flush the area with water immediately and use an antibiotic solution before covering the nail with a plaster.
Now is the time to get rid of those pesky hangnails.
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