Jammed Toenail Treatment [Causes & Best Home Treatment!]

Jammed Toenail Treatment Overview:

• A jammed toenail can result in lead to bleeding and severe pain.
• Do these three things to save the nail and stop the pain!
• The most common causes include toenail fungus, jogger’s toes, and toenail trauma.

Jammed Toenail Treatment:

• Three quick treatments are possible to try and protect your toenail.
• A jammed toenail is usually a loose toenail.
• Unfortunately, one of the best things to do is trim and groom it properly and allow it to grow back healthy and strong in the future!
• They involve icing your toe, compressing it, using topical antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medication to keep the swelling and inflammation away.
• These treatments will also help increase the odds of keeping your toenail.

1) Traumatic Injury:

• A jammed toenail can frequently occur as a result of a traumatic injury.
• This happens when you drop something heavy on your toenail or jam it against the edge of your bedpost.
• This can definitely be very painful, and you definitely know it!

Avoid this MISTAKE toenail trauma mistake!:

• It doesn’t have to be one big injury to get a jammed toenail!
• Rubbing your toenail all day in a tight shoe can cause trauma, just like one big injury.
• We more frequently see repetitive rubbing and irritation that causes the toenail to be dislocated and wedge back.
• This is probably the MOST COMMON CAUSE!

Symptoms:

• Extreme Pain.
• Usually, the cause of injury is apparent. It can including dropping something on your foot or stubbing your toe.
• Red or black toenail.
• Bleeding underneath the toenail.
• Loose Toenail.

Toenail Falling of from Injury Home Treatment:

• The key to toenail trauma is making sure to trim and loosen any of the damaged toenails.
• If you leave it just staying on, the jammed toenail will allow the fungus to build upon the loose, damaged parts.
• This will likely lead to an ugly toenail over the upcoming few months.

Will the toenail survive?

• 95% of the time. The toenail does grow back.
• The only downside is that it does grow at 1.5mm per month, which is very slow.
• A grain of rice is roughly 6mm.
• Keep in mind that the toenail grows at about 1 mm per month, so this means it can take roughly a year to grow back 12 mm.

What can I do to make it grow back faster?

• Keep in mind that the toenail that you already have is probably dead and detached. There is no way to make a toenail that is not getting blood flow to survive.
• The best thing you can do is remove this toenail. This will prevent it from getting caught on anything. It will then feel extremely better.
• This ensures you won’t get an ugly fungal toenail.

How long does it take for the toenail to grow back?

At this point, a new nail will grow. Give it about six months to 12 months, and you have a new nail. Just make sure to keep it protected.

What is the biggest SECRET to ensuring that it does grow back?

• One of the biggest mistakes we see is that people don’t correct the cause of why it fell off in the first place. This is the reason.
• About 90% of the time, not correcting the source of repeated trauma is why people get better.
• Then they convince themselves that their toenail simply is not wanting to grow back.

2) Jogger’s Toe:

• Joggers toe is when you go for a run, and one day, you wake up in your toenail is black and coming loose.
• This is probably the most common cause of a jammed toenail.
• There is no difference between 1000 strikes at 1 pound, verse one gigantic injury of a thousand pounds. Well, at least in regards to the toe!
• By far, the most common cause of the toenail coming loose is repeated microtrauma.
• This means repeated pressure against the front of your shoe, especially for your longest toe.

Symptoms:

• No pain to extreme pain is possible.
• This usually sneaks up on you.
• It is usually due to constriction of your toes in tight or poorly fitting shoes.
• Red or black toenail.
• Bleeding underneath the toenail.
• Loose Toenail.

Jogger’s Toe  Home Treatment:

• You have to trim and remove the thick loose toenail.
• You have to make sure that there is no more blood trapped underneath it. Just make sure there are no loose edges that catch on your sock.
• As the nail grows out, you can trim it and file it down.
• It will grow at 1 mm per month and eventually replace the previous nail.

3) Toenail Fungus:

Toenail fungus is one of the biggest predisposing factors to a jammed toenail. If the toenail is already weakened and loose, this is likely the biggest problem.

Toenail Fungus Symptoms:

• Brittle toenails.
• Pieces breaking off or coming away underneath the nails.
• The skin around it becomes thick dry, and crusty.
• Scaly skin forms underneath the toenails.

Toenail Fungus Is the Leading Cause Of Ingrown Toenails:

Toenail fungus results in a thicker, more brittle ingrown toenail. Keep toenail fungus in mind while treating your ingrown toenail.

Consider our recommended products for toenail fungus!:

• These products do work great.
• Just remember to trim and remodel your toenails and trim the dead skin.

Toenail Fungus Causes:

• Poor blood flow.
• Diabetes.
• Poor sensation in the toes.
• Abnormal pressure or inflammation around your nails. This leads to an entry of fungus underneath the nail.

Toenail Fungus Home Treatment:

• The real SECRET to solving toenail fungus is to realize that your toenail is loose and not attached to the skin growing the fungus.
• Take a look at any of the pictures or videos on this page.
• The toenail fungus can only grow in that area because it is not getting blood flow and is mostly detached from the skin.
• If you get your toenail clippers and trim the toenail, you will already be removing about 90% of the fungus from the site.
• You can then use a foot bath to soak the area. We recommend Epsom salts as listed in our recommended products.

Jammed Toenail Home Treatment:

1)Ice The Toenail!

The first step is to take some ice and apply it to the jammed toenail to decrease the inflammation in the area.

• This will help decrease the immediate pain.
• This will also help decrease the healing time over the next few days.
• It will increase the odds of your toenail not falling off.

2)Put Some Protection on It.

• Wrap it to stop the Toe From Swelling.
• Please don’t make it too tight.
• You still want to feel the toe.

3)Topical Antibiotics.

Use a cream like Neosporin, triple antibiotic ointment, or bacitracin to keep infection away.

4)Anti-inflammatory medication.

If you are healthy enough(with a podiatrist or pharmacist), it is a good idea to take some anti-inflammatory medications. These will help decrease the swelling and the pain.

• Decreases the pain.
• Increases the healing time.
• Increases chances of keeping the nail.

5)Get The Best Shoe Fit:

• One of the most common biomechanical causes of toenail problems, bunions, hammertoes, and outside of the foot problems is poorly fitting shoes.
• A well-fitting and proper shoes can sometimes make all the difference in heel pain and overall foot pain.
• If you have too small or too big shoes, this can result in crowding or too much motion and sliding within your shoe.
• This can cause people to walk improperly and put more weight on their knees, hips, and lower back!
• We usually find that people make some of the 10 mistakes that we talk about.
• Watch the below treatment video to make sure that this never happens again!