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Are Ingrown Toenails Genetic?
If you’ve had an ingrown toenail arise out of seemingly nowhere, and other members of your family have had ingrown toenails in the past, you may be wondering if ingrown…
Do I Need Antibiotics For An Ingrown Nail?
Will antibiotics fix an ingrown toenail?  If I’ve had an ingrown nail removed, should I have antibiotics?  These are all good questions, and ones we get asked often by our…
Ingrown Toenail Not Healing?
Is your ingrown toenail not healing? Maybe you’ve been soaking it in Epsom salts, removed the nail yourself, had antibiotics to help treat it or have left it to get…
How To Spot An Ingrown Toenail Early
So you’ve got toe pain starting but you’re not sure if it’s an ingrown toenail. What are the signs you should be looking for if it’s an ingrown toenail and…
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…