What do you see?

• • Pain and tenderness in your toe along one or both sides of the nail.
• • Redness around your toenail.
• • Swelling of your toe around the nail.
• • Infection of the tissue around your toenail.

Causes:

Common ingrown toenail causes include:

• • Wearing shoes that crowd your toenails.
• • Cutting your toenails too short or not straight across.
• • Injuring your toenail.
• • Having unusually curved toenails.

Complications:

Left untreated or undetected, an ingrown toenail can infect the underlying bone and lead to a serious bone infection.

Treatment:

Depending on severity of the condition it can be treated conservatively by home care and lifestyle modification and surgically.