On Sunday late afternoon, I discovered Ryan was limping his right feet. It considered me, so I checked his right foot. This turned out that Ryan's right big toe nail had a huge infection. Around his toenail, there was swollen red and thick blisters. Thus, David and I decided to take him to an urgent care instead of taking our risks by draining the blisters out.
The result was that he had Paronychia infection. It means that one of them was caused biting nails. Ryan does have a VERY BAD habit of biting his toe nails. Before the doctor from urgent care drained his infection out, he had his eyes wide opened and told the doctor in a scared voice, "Please don't pop my toe nail!" Poor Ryan was scared and wept for a short period of time. We then explained to him why he had an infection.
Lastly, I asked him if he would repeat his bad habits: biting his toe nails. He wouldn't. In meanwhile, he did not have any obligate on taking anti-botic medication because he knew this would heal him fast. We believe he had learned his hard lesson not to repeat his bad habit: biting his toe nails.
3 comments:
poor thing! hope hes OK! i know how painful even its a little cut or blisters into feet i hate it! wish him a speedy recovery and hope he does stop biting his toenails somehow! hugs
ooooh! Poor little guy!!! HOW can you reach your toenail to your mouth?! I guess children are way more limber and flexible than adults are! :)
Its a hard habit to break. Maybe once the toes are healed you might want to think about painting them with some of the no bite stuff that has pepper in it. I hear that helps break the habit because it doesn;t taste good.
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