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Ingrown Toenail-Removal Videos Are The New Pimple-Popping Videos

They're strangely addictive. - by Korin Miller
  • 30 Oct 2017
Ingrown Toenail-Removal Videos Are The New Pimple-Popping Videos
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YouTube is filled with videos of people doing gross things. Of course, you’re super familiar with pimple-popping videos and maybe you’ve even seen ingrown hair-removal videos. Now, there’s another nasty genre to check out: ingrown toenail-removal videos. 

As you can imagine, they’re as icky as they sound. The videos, some of which rack up nearly half a million views, all follow a similar theme: A person has an ingrown toenail, so they attempt to remove it on their own. And it is so, so gross.

Ingrown Toenail Removal

While it’s fun to be grossed out by this stuff, you really shouldn’t try this at home, says Melissa Lockwood, a podiatrist at Heartland Foot and Ankle Associates.

If you have an ingrown toenail, don’t pick at it—it could cause an infection, she says. If it’s causing you pain, she recommends soaking your toe in warm water with Epsom salts for 10 minutes and then trying to gently pull the edge of the skin away from the nail.

“Oftentimes what happens is the skin is taking over the nail area,” she explains. That may do the trick, but it might not.

*SATISFYING* Ingrown Toenail Removal

If you weren’t able to tackle it on your own or have pus (which could signal a bacterial infection), it’s time to call a podiatrist. At the office, the doctor will numb your toe and then use a small instrument to loosen up the nail edge before cutting it down to the nail root.

“It’s almost impossible to do this at home without a lot of pain,” Lockwood says.

So, if you’ve got an ingrown toenail, it’s really best to leave treatment to the professionals. Still, Lockwood gets why people are into this.

“People are just curious and want to see how it’s done,” she says.

This article originally appeared on Women's Health US

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