Dd has an ingrowing toe nail diagnosed two years ago, back at podiatrist today and it appears there may be another one in her other big toe.
Podiatrist has suggested putting tissue under the toes (between toe nai and skin so that the nail grows over this and not in to skin). She also provided two silicon toe dividers to separate big toes from second toe.
I asked about op as although they are not infected it does not seem practical to continue this treatment in the long term. DD not keen for you to touch her toe let alone do this every day.
I was going to push for op- podiatrist was of opinion that it is a traumatic thing for daughter to have. I feel if handled well (with me preparing dd) it should be better than the limitations that the ingrowing toe nail causes. Dd goes dancing once a week and podiatrist seemed to suggest she should 'cut down in this'!
In short has anyone had any experience if ingrowing toe nails in their kids and how did they handle it?
TIA
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Ingrowing toenail in eight year old, any one treated this?
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fufflebum · 17/06/2013 20:16
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