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What Will Happen If An Ingrown Toenail Is Left Untreated?
Every so often, we have a patient come to our clinic with a severe ingrown toenail that had started weeks ago – or sometimes even months ago. The reason for…
Ingrown Toenail: What NOT To Do | Podiatrist Tips
Recently over our lockdown period, as we were unable to see patients under our higher alert levels, the questions around ingrown toenails came rolling in. A lot of the queries…
Help! My Child’s Ingrown Toenail Keep Coming Back
We often have parents of 8 to 16-year-olds bring their kids in for the second time for the same problem: an ingrown toenail on their big toe that’s causing them…
An Ingrown Toenail In A Six Month Old
Does your baby have a red, swollen toe by the side of their toenail? Could it be an ingrown toenail – and do babies even get ingrown toenails? Yes, they…
My Nails Are Cut Short. Can I Still Have An Ingrown Toenail?
We had a patient come in to see us recently with the tip of her second toe being red, feeling tender and looking a little swollen. She had experienced ingrown…
Why Do Toenails Thicken?
A number of our patients with ingrown toenails find that their toenails have been thickening with age. For some, this thickness means that the nail is pressing against the top…
Do Ingrown Toenails Cause Foot Pain?
So you currently have – or have recently had – an ingrown toenail. And now you’ve developed some foot or leg pain. What’s going on and could they be linked?…
Is My Ingrown Toenail Causing My Toe To Feel Numb?
While the most common descriptors of ingrown toenails from our patients include painful, frustrating, uncomfortable, annoying, excruciating, can’t-wear-shoes-anymore and can’t-sleep-at-night, we recently had a patient call in to book an…
Does Soaking Your Ingrown Toenail In Epsom Salts Fix The Problem?
A few times every year, we see patients who were under the impression that they could fix their ingrown toenail by doing regular Epsom salt baths. They will have usually…
What Else Can The Auckland Ingrown Toenail Clinic Help You With?
Ingrown toenails are our speciality. From one-off treatments to nail surgeries – and even removing the toenail entirely. We love helping patients finally get long-term relief from this painful and…