How to care for this damaged fingernail

[ViaRia01]

I accidentally slammed a door on my thumb. Very painful and it bruised a dark purple colour under the nail. Eventually the bruise disappeared (overnight) and it left it with a white patch on my nail (like the white tip but in the middle of my nail bed). The white part is now lifting - the top layer is coming up but it is about 2 thirds down my nail, far to low down to cut the nail to that point, if that makes sense at all.

photos attached. It’s like the nail it attached at the cuticle, then white/ unattached and lifting, then attached for a few millimetres before the white tip.

Not painful (yet!) but I’m concerned it will get caught on things and tear or become painful. I’m also worried the damage will be there forever or my nail will never reattach to the nail bed when the new nail grows through.

does anyone know my fate??

I've banged my nail before, and what happened was the nail eventually fell off and there was a new nail growing underneath

You need to tape it down to prevent catching it, and so it stays on as long as possible. Mine fell off, tearing in a similar place. Painful, but fine now.

As pp said perhaps the nail will fall off. I have had this had numerous times with toenails (perhaps I’m not very careful?) and the result has always been that the nail has fallen off and a new nail has grown underneath.

I've used superglue to fix nails that have broken too low to trim before and it's very effective.

Great, unanimous agreement that I will survive this - thanks everyone. Will definitely get a plaster on it now and try to avoid it catching on anything