Home remedies for paronychia, or an infected nail, include soaking in warm water and applying lemon and salt. In some cases, medical treatment may be necessary. Paronychia is a bacterial or fungal ...

This type of bacterial or fungal infection can develop due to biting, picking at the nails, injury, or trauma. You may notice a small white pimple at first, but it can lead to a swollen, painful ...

In addition, it is useful to soak the fingernail (s) in hot water several times a day to soften the skin and relieve the pain and swelling in bacterial paronychia. If pus is formed, an incision may be ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether incision and drainage or antibiotics was best for acute paronychia. No relevant papers were found using the reported search. There is currently ...

Paronychia is an infection of the layer of skin surrounding the nail (known as the perionychium). It can develop when bacteria enters broken skin near the cuticle at the base of the nail or when an ...

Seventy acute paronychia patients with onychocryptosis were recruited from the Department of Dermatology, the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from March 2019 to March 2020. The ...