So, you know when your figer gets infected around the nail and it all goes white and gunky....

[mustrunmore]

... whats the solution? This one is a stubborn one! I've bathed it, squeezed a bit out, poulticed it, everything. Alot of gunk has come out, but there's tons left by the look of it. ds1 is screaming in agony whenever its touched.

[purepurple]

antibiotics?

[bubblagirl]

took my ds to gp and got antibiotic cream for it he had same thing

[gigglewitch]

doctors and antibiotics I'm afraid. I left mine "well it's only a sore finger" - and went to the docs when it felt pretty much like it was about to drop off, went in all apologetic for wasting their time on a sore finger, dr went nuts and said I should have been there a week earlier before it got hideously infected That was me told OFF... so get thee and the ds to the doctors asap.

[mustrunmore]

Yeah, I guess so. I dont ever remember going to gp as a kid though, only my Mum sorting it out!

[shockers]

The doc made an incision in Ds1's, got all the stuff out and dressed it. DS said the pain went immediately.

[comewhinewithme]

Ny dd gets these first time she got AB's second time it turned up on a bank holiday weekend so I googled and found some stuff you could use I got it from boots and it really did work.

Here you need some gauze to fasten over it aswell.