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? asked in HealthGeneral Health CareFirst Aid · 8 years ago

How to clean/treat a cracked finger nail? HELP!?

I have acrylic nails on at the moment, but today my horse stood on my nail and cracked/ripped it straight across the middle, the nail bled and looks a bit bruised. The acrylics have only been on a week and are no where near ready to come off so it would be too hard to pull them off. I can't soak them in acetone because my nail is extremely sore.

Does anyone have any experience with something like this, or any idea what I should do?? Please it's very sore and I'm a bit worried it'll get infected or something.

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  • Joe
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Trim the fake nail short so that nothing can get under it and lever the rest of the nail up.

    Keep things clean: soap and water, Betadyne if you're still at the farm, splash a little hydrogen peroxide under the nail. That's about all you can do now.

  • 8 years ago

    clean it well and the finger nail will have to come off conpletely it will grow back. i got my finger nail bashed in playing football gotmy finger caught between someones face mask and my shoulder pad hurt like crazy

  • 8 years ago

    Consult a doctor.:)

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