Due to Fungus Treatment Got Large White Stuff Under Toenail
When I use multiple treatments aggressively, I get large white stuff under my separated toenail. It bleeds if messed with. But after about a week, they're dried and separated from the skin and I can remove them with tweezers. What is this? And is it possible to prevent nail separation? I have a toenail that is somewhat separated and I would like to not have it be like my other large toenail that is very separated. Thanks, Ted!
Long Beach, CA
07/17/2006
To Ellen: If you make your nail beds bleed, you are pushing your cure time backwards. If you puncture the nail bed and make it bleed, there is a good chance you will have to start all over. Once the nail bed heals, you can resume. Keep in mind the first goal is to kill the fungus that has attacked the nail and the nail bed. As the dead skin sheds, you will eventually have good skin take over and fill the spot. By the time your nail fully grows out, you may need a few months afterwards to continue the treatment to wait until the skin grows back. It is nothing to panic about-a while back I made the same mistake. The bottom line is you will have to wait until your nails grow out. That means 6-8 months. Just relax and don't make the same mistake I made.
Ellen: The white stuff are some dead skins scales and dead fungus that gets oxidized by the hydrogen peroxide and they get removed. Separated toenails are due to excess dead skin that is pushing your toenails apart.
Keeping the skin dry and once the fungus is over, the skin should normalized its thickness and separation should reduce. You need to get something that will help skin to heal faster such as aloe vera oil, allantoin (elicina), vitamin C and eating some silica rich foods, MSM, will help normalize the skin much faster. It would seem that you are too agressive in removal of fungus.
Perhaps soaking your feet in a 10% copper chloride solution (which causes your foot to be green), will have a longer lasting effect in fungus prevention then the use of hydrogen peroxide and this does not encourage the formation of white stuff which leads to separation of skin. Using too high of copper chloride solution may cause stinging sensation and you may rinse it to remove some. The rest will get absorbed on the skin layers and will prevent any new fungus from forming.
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