Does this need medical attention? (Yucky photo included)

[BlindGuyMcSqueezy]

My DH dropped a tin on his foot at work, he could see a blood blister forming and it was very sore.
He’s just come home and taken his shoe off and it looks like this 🤢

He doesn’t know if he should soak it, dress it, pop it or go to a pharmacist.

Does anyone know what the best thing would be to do?

The blood shot out with the speed and drama of a frog's tongue capturing a fly when my nail was impaled, so we're talking filming rather than photo if DH agrees to capture the moment.

No, sound advice,

Let us hope 🤞

That's because other spiders eat them. I got up one morning to find two spiders in the bath, and decided it was a problem for the evening. I came home to one spider and a leg.

Ouch that looks painful he might need his toe nail removed because of the swelling.

I dropped a metal framed bed on my toe. The pain never even hit me at first. Then I looked down and saw my bloodied to with nail sticking up. They injected it with numbing stuff to remove the nail but could still feel I. So they went and got me some gas and air. 😂😂😂

Is your mum’s friend’s daughter 120 years old?

Ooof, that needs drained, hot pin / drill bit through the nail and the pain will leave as fast as it came when the pressure is released - and careful not to stub it for a while!! 😱😆

Its a very bad idea to try and pierce it yourself as you could cause an infection. Minor injuries - I needs to be treated in a sterile environment.

Nasty, it looks like he will lose the toenail eventually. I would dress it and preserve the blister as long as possible, nice big comfy slippers for a few days (or more), keep the toenail cut short to protect the nail as long as possible.

Or got to doctors or A&E for a proper opinion. The toe could be broken, and they may suggest a bit of surgery to tidy it up if the nail is badly damaged.

Absolutely!

Mumsnet rules and all that.

Where are the photos, OP?

I hope your OH has been seen now and the toe bollock has been sorted.

I hate to think what was also growing in that tin 😂

Its probably 95% radioactive dust…

The mums friends DD is dead so not 120!

The mums friend is probably ages with Ops mum.
The DD probably born around same time as Op.

I'll take a guess this happened in the 40s or 50s. Before antibiotics were widely available

People still die of sepsis, even though antibiotics sre widely available.

Antibiotics weren't widely used before the 1940s. Penicillin was discovered in 1928. If you're going to scoff at someone, check your facts first 😁

Yes, after years of treating a stubborn verucca, I got impatient and went at it with nail scissors. You could see what needed to be removed, the cells were different. It didn’t come back.

While sepsis and infection is, obviously, terrifying it’s a risk not a certainty. We used to sterilise tools, use tcp liberally, and only go to the hospital/GP if it got worse instead of better.

This kind of thing used to be home cured.

DH had a similar toe after a child stamped on it!

As I recall the practice nurse at the gp dealt with it (our minor injuries was closed down 10 years ago).

It went a lovely shade of black as it was healing. One day I was getting dressed when I stood on something. I asked DH if he knew where his toe nail was as I think it was stuck to my foot. He hadn’t noticed it come off!

As my DH is a bit of a wuss, I don’t have many lovely photos. He said he looked away when they drained it - so rude.

However this is after the draining and nail removal.

He had an X-ray to check it wasn’t broken and he’s been wrapped up and put in a support boot.

He got home at about 1am.

I’m still very much in shock at the comments about his nice feet. I must’ve snapped it at a good angle, his feet are big, square lumps, the same width all the way down 😄
And he picks his toenails off rather than cut them, the dirty get

It looks much more sore now its been drained, good its not broken, did they remove the nail?

You should put this on the medical gore sub Reddit. They’ll love it!

Oh gosh that does look sore. At least it looks clean. He will need to be careful with that for a little while. I hope it heals without any further issues.

Oh god, I shouldn't have looked!

Imagine following that one poster's advice and 'cleaning' and putting the removed nail back on that as a cover 😂😂😂

Can’t believe that advice. I’m an avid sporner but anything potentially broken or prone to infection I’d be straight down to A&E. My best friend when she was 9 almost died of septicaemia I recall my mum speaking to me very seriously about it but trying not to scare me.

Thanks for the update and lovely photo. ❤️

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