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Question About Peroxide Mixture

Posted by Stephen (East London, South Africa) on 02/08/2006

Hello. As a child I caught a finger in a closing door and lost the nail. When it grew back and for my entire life (now 37) there was always a small grey mark under this nail. About 5 years ago, the nail "lifted" and is basically seperated from the nail bed. The seperation begins about 1mm in from the cuticle. I should also mention that about 2mm behind the cuticle, the skin has always seemed slightly inflammed and raised (almost as if the lifted/seperated nail is "higher than the nailbed" all the way under the skin so to speak. Since this seperation took place, I have always just cut the lifted part of the nail away, so that the nailbed is exposed right the way to the cuticle --- I am assuming that the entire nail is lifting from the nailbed --- the surface area that is exposed is very uneven and bumpy and after cutting the partially grown nail away, I can usually cut away some of the uneveness with a blade or knife (completely painless). I recently discovered your peroxide/vinegar etc treatment and having phoned a pharmacist, they spoke me out of it and suggested I use plain tea tree oil 3-5 times a day for 2 months. I have been doing that now for about a week, but keep wondering if I shouldn't just go ahead and buy your ingredients anyway. We don't have Clorox here in South Africa --- is there a universal equivalent, or anything else I could pass on to the pharmacists to find a similar product here?? What type of vinegar is used to mix with the peroxide?? Also, assuming my description is reasonably accurate, should I apply the peroxide mixture directly onto this exposed area that is basically under the lifted nail?? Thanks for any answers or help as I am pretty lost here.

Replied by Ted
Bangkok, Thailand
391 posts

Go ahead and try it. You won't get hurt doing it. However, for your conditions you don't need Clorox and just do without it. An equivalent product is chlorinated bleach they use in laundry products.


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