Newborns finger red and swollen?

[ebbyniko1108]

Hello everyone, I have a 9 day old daughter. Today I have noticed that she has got a swollen and red finger. It looks like as if she has got something under her finger nail and on the outside as well. I will attach a picture. Have you experienced anything similar? I am very concerned...

That looks like an infection? You should take her to the GP.

Has she got a hair wrapped round it lower down?

It looks infected. Ring your GP and see if they will see you today and if not ring the hospital you gave birth in as you and your baby will still be under midwifery care.

Doctor immediately.

That looks sore! Yes she needs to see the GP

Infection. My daughter had five fingers like this within a week of being born. Turns out she had ingrowing fingernails and as they hardened up they cut into her skin and developed infections. You need to see the doctor asap.

Definitely looks infected , she needs to be seen by doctor straight away .

Doctor now - they will see her today.

That's incredibly swollen, please get her seen as soon as possible. You don't want to mess around with swelling on small parts of the body like fingers and toes.

Also, congratulations!

I'm 48 and am suffering with something similar. It's really really painful and has kept me awake for three nights. I'm on antibiotics now but it's still sore.

Please take her to the GP asap, mine started like that but now there's a huge amount of pus under the nail.

Poor little thing, hope you get her sorted OP.

It looks like an ingrowing nail, my ds2 had this around 7 days old, the go told me to gently massage it out.
They didn't want to medicate such a young baby but at 10 days old his belly button became infected to ended up on medicine anyway. 13 years ago that was!

Stop messing about putting pictures on here and get her seen by a health professional asap

She needs to see a GP urgently, you don't want to mess about with infections in a newborn. Call them now.

O have called them and they put me on a list and wanted a picture. I am calling them again to tell them I am really concerned!😞😞😞

Doctor immediately. My daughter had the same. Ended up as inpatient on IV flucloxacillin for 3 days.
Please keep us updated

Take her to A+E if you don't see a doctor in person today. Baby will need to be weighed for antibiotics dose.

Thanks for your reply. So what was the cause for it? The flucloxacillin did not do any harm did it? I hope it helped

I can't see closely but it looks like paronychia? Quite common but needs looking at and antibiotics asap. My son had it and I recall Kate Lawler from Big Brother's daughter had it and ended up in hospital.

(My son didn't have to go into hospital, just GP.)

That looks like paronychia.
She absolutely needs to be seen today. They will most probably give her antibiotics. If a GP doesn’t see her then definitely take her to A&E. Good luck.

Ouch! Hope that the Dr sees her asap.

Would antibiotics harm my baby?😞😞

No, antibiotics aren't going to hurt her but an untreated infection will!

Ffs blood sepsis or a missing finger would definitely harm her wouldn’t they?
Go straight to hospital and stop faffing around waiting for the gp.

Antibiotics won’t harm your baby. Lots of babies on neonatal units have antibiotics. Our daughter had antibiotics at similar age for similar infection.
Please do get your beautiful baby seen today.