![]() If you don’t treat it, your whole nail fold can become infected and you can lose the nail. ![]() Paronychia can be painful and needs to be treated. More likely to be a yeast infection if it lasts for 6 weeks or longer.Chronic wet hands can make you susceptible to this condition.You are less likely to have an abscess.Yeast usually causes a paronychia that is more chronic with redness and scaling around the entire finger nail. MRSA (methicillin-resistant staph aureus) is a type of staph that may need special antibiotics.Staphylococcus aureus (“staph”) is the most common infection.The types of bacteria that cause this infection are The bacteria can enter the nail through a cut in the skin or from a dirty manicure tool. The common types of infection are:īacterial is the most common cause of paronychia.īacterial paronychia usually causes an abscess around the nail, redness, and pain. It can also happen if your skin is often wet from a job like dishwashing. That can be caused by trauma to the nail (like aggressive cutting of the cuticles or skin around the nails) or through some kind of tear or cut. The nail infection happens when bacteria or yeast enter the skin around the nail through an opening. Nail changes including: thickening, discoloration, and brittleness.If the infection is chronic, the nail itself might become thicker, discolored, or brittle. The nail may fall off after the infection, but it usually grows back once the infection is under control. This causes the hard portion of the nail (known as the nail plate) to lift from the surrounding skin. If you get paronychia infections often, you might lose your cuticle (the transparent skin located above and around the bottom nail fold). It might fill with pus, look yellow or white, or feel like it’s full of fluid. Inflammation makes the skin swollen, red, and very painful. Usually, the nail fold located on the edge or bottom of the fingernail or toenail becomes inflamed. If there is a red, bleeding bump in the nail fold, this may be a pyogenic granuloma-a non-cancerous growth made of blood vessels. Paediatric psoriasis.If there are painful blisters (white, clear, fluid-filled bubbles) on the skin surrounding the nail that keep recurring, it may be a herpes virus skin infection called whitlow.Confluent and reticulated papillomatosis.Disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis.Bowen disease ( intraepidermal squamous cell carcinoma).Scaly condition by body site Solitary scaly lesions Build-up of scale due to avoidance of washing.Various morphologies including erythroderma.Slowly evolving slightly scaly annular and roundish patches, plaques and sometimes nodules.Psoriasis-like symmetrical or erythrodermic scaly rash.Skin coloured or red flat or indurated papules/small plaques. ![]() Bilateral but asymmetrical firm papules, plaques.Symmetrical well- circumscribed plaques with silvery scale.Scale is prominent between fingers, elbows, scalp. ![]()
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