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Walt Whitman, (1819-1892), American poet, essayist and journalist.

Finger and Toe Infection

Those ones, called Panaritium, Perionyxis and so-forth, are not infrequent and concern all slices of population.

Practitioners apply usually surgery, trying to release the pus, which has accumulated.

Success is not always warranted, as the right moment for an incision is difficult to choose.

Besides, as with any local, or loco-regional anesthesia, patients sometimes are impressed by images and complain of pain despite sufficient effect.

The origin of this pathology is maceration of skin beside the nail, and some physicians even apply a more aggressive therapy, with extraction of the nail.

After 40 years of experience, with a few cases that I treated personally, I find all those measures too extreme in most cases.

I applied on some occurrences another treatment, with full success.

Less invasive, it permits also faster healing.

The recipe is as follows: you apply an occlusive bandage around the finger or toe and leave it overnight.

You imbibe absorbent cotton (cotton batting) with alcohol 70%, and you envelope it with a transparent slide that belongs usually in the kitchen.

I found the one we use for roast beef to keep it in the fridge after cooking, in order to preserve it from odors as most adapted.

You check the result on next morning, and if insufficient, you repeat the same procedure next evening.

Sometimes, pus can be seen clearly through the skin and then incision can be made, frequently even without anesthetic.

Even if incomplete such therapy can be used for ripening of abscess.