PiedRéseau Châteauguay/Mercier Toenail trauma : symptoms and treatments

Toenail trauma : symptoms and treatments

Toenail trauma can result from a variety of causes, including a blow, a crush, or a foreign body.

Even if toenail trauma is benign in the majority of cases, there is always the danger of lifelong abnormalities.

It is advised that toenail trauma be treated as soon as possible to reduce the cosmetic hazards connected with it.

Given how similar this sort of damage can be to a tumor under the toenail, it should be given considerably more attention.

Toenail trauma is the nail’s reaction to an unusual shock or force, as the term indicates.

The following symptoms appear after an accident that causes a subungual hematoma:

• A buildup of blood in the shock-affected nail tissue
• A change in the color of the nail to dark purple or blackish blue
• Pain that lasts for a long time or throbs
• Partial or total nail detachment in the weeks following the traumatic incident

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