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?

Does he have to go back to get it checked on or for the dressing to be changed?

That does look sore @BlindGuyMcSqueezy , does he have to go back for dressings or are you going to do them at home ?

You watched a GP heat up a paper clip and stick it into someone's toe...really.

A trained GP using sterile specialised instruments is different from infecting a wound with a random household item.

In your hurry to handle it yourself and not be a bother, and resort to some Bear Grylls DIY with a bit of stationery, you'd be turning a short outpatient procedure into a potential extended hospital stay for sepsis.

Completely agree!!

Ouch!!!!! that is going to be very sore poor guy!

Blimey! I'm glad he's had it seen to. I'm very much a 'Home surgery and Sudocrem from a tub that's older than me' person normally but even I wouldn't have taken that on alone.

Oh crikey. I think the after photo looks worse than the before. I wasn't expecting them to remove the nail but I guess there was a high probability it was going to come off after that knock so I expect it's better to remove it cleanly now rather than to wait.

I'm glad he got it properly looked at even if he had to wait a while.

Excellent wound cleaning and debridement there @BlindGuyMcSqueezy

It always looks worse before it gets better. Hope the patient is being patient and taking it easy.

Are we related? My grandad swore by germolene for every injury from flea bites and nettle stings to kitchen table open heart surgery ( slight exaggeration) . He also used it for the dogs who for some reason never licked it off so never needed collars of shame. I expect it tasted awful.

I remember as a kid in the early 90s a bottle of lucozade cured everything from flu to measles to Ebola

In my day 60s, it was hot Ribenna but I also had antibiotics and a nurse visiting daily. Viral pneumonia.

I can't imagine a Doc using a paperclip either.

Esp when they have a wee gagit that does it. Yes the end of it might look like the loop of a paperclip but the one I saw was much finer. And must have burned really hot, the nail burning was stinking.

It doesn't work since they stopped wrapping it in orange cellophane. Now it's just a fizzy drink, not magic cure-all medicine.

Thank you for seeing this thread through, Carefully. Much appreciated!

to be fair, that is how it used to be done in a healthcare setting, but it isn't fashionable these days for many reasons (looks a bit medieval; fire risk; a paperclip doesn't stay hot for long; stationery budget doesn't stretch to single use paper-clips). Not sure there's many places that would still do it like that now and even if they are, it would be in combo with proper additional infection prevention. It's also worth remembering for the diy medics out there - a hot paperclip can send false nails up in flames...probably less of a problem on a bloke's foot, but possibly more relevant to the usual MN demographic.

Yep. Needs attention. Blood trapped. Be careful.

[sticks rusty paper clip in Bonkers1966]
Read OP's posts!

It's a wet paper towel these days, at least in the school playground.

Oft the after photo is gorey but I can't look away! Hopefully they have lots of local anaesthetic before don't anything else!
Is he sore today?

For some bizarre reason DS school
has moved from wet paper towels to an ice cube in a sandwich bag 🤷🏻‍♀️

😂 edgy!

My youngest loves an ice pack for any sort of bump. Works wonders.

I actually did the paper clip procedure, under supervision when I was doing my stint in minor injuries in A & E as a student nurse many years ago. I was terrified that I would apply too much pressure on the nail and hit the nail bed. Luckily I didn’t and all was well - the haematoma under the nail bed oozed out and thankfully for the patient the pressure was relieved. They probably have an implement specifically made for the job these days but it was a paper clip heated up red hot in the 80’s

Its 9 years since my experience (DC2 was a tiny baby at the time), and it was definitely a wee gadget thing.
It looked a bit like a BIC lighter but instead of a flame it was a very thin hot wire loop.

Thank god. I had visions of you stabbing it with a rusty pin.