What you have sounds like paronychia, which means inflammation of the skin around the nail. Yeats are often involved. I would guess that what the first doctor gave you was thymol in chloroform, an old-fashioned remedy for this. You can have your doctor order this, or you can use a pre-mixed cream like clotrimazole 1% (over-the-counter) or one of its prescription-strength relatives.
Best.
Dr. Rockoff
A related discussion,
What is Paronychia was started.
my daughter has bumps/wholes on her nails,anyone know what this might be.shes had this about 6months had her tyroid checked/it was fine.
I saw an earlier thread about skin peeling. My 16 year old son started about a month ago with his fingers peeling - it has now moved down to his wrist. He has no red spots or other inflamation.
His doctor had told his father about three weeks ago that if the peeling started on his feet or toes there would be a need for concern. My son pointed out his feet to me yesterday - that he now has mild peeling at the end of his toes.
I had seen some symptoms for peeling skin that could possibly point to Leukemia or Hodgkins - he has none of these other symptoms like the bruising, fatigue, red spots, fevers etc. Is this something I should be highly concerned about - or should I just get him back into his doctor and not really be so worried?
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