Are You Going In For A Manicure, And Returning Out With An Infection?

Why Are Manicures At The Salon Dangerous? 

It is a popular discussion when it comes to nail tips and how people using them regularly are risking serious fungal infections. Here in this article, we discuss how to get a safe manicure or pedicure at your favourite salon.

Bring your own instruments to the salon first of all always and meaning always. Whereas just in case the smart thing to do is to always bring your own as several states have laws prohibiting the use of manicure implements that others have used. Nail files are also included here. Still ending up with nail infections, some patients take their own clippers and nail scissors to salons. The answer to the question of whether they took their own file, is always no.

With symptoms including pain and red swollen skin, paronychia is the medical term for an infection around the nail. What are then the usual causes? The answer comes to be the excessive cutting of the cuticle as well as the use of an infected manicure instrument that includes the stick used to push the cuticle back. Severe cases may require oral antibiotics or injections into the nail fold, whereas the treatment of paronychia depends on whether it is bacterial or fungal that is usually treated with topical antibiotics. From infected tools, people can also get herpetic infections of the skin around the nail known as whitlows.

Tips To Take Care Of 

Clean your manicure implements with rubbing alcohol after every use even if you are the only person using them. 

Never trust appearances. It’s no guarantee that its facilities and instruments are free of fungi and bacteria no matter how beautiful, expensive, or clean a salon appears. Do not sit there if the manicurist beckons you to a newly vacated pedicure chair whereas the basin has not been cleaned with bleach. Only bleach kills bacteria and fungi whereas a swish of water and soap will not do. 

Presenting their own challenges are pedicures. Take caution in letting the manicurist use a razor or a callus remover that slices dead skin. As it is very easy to cut too deep and slice into flesh leaving the area vulnerable to infection, these are dangerous to use. They should not be used too enthusiastically whereas buffers and pumice stones are safer.

Rather than have it done to excess every few weeks at a nail salon it's actually better to use a pumice stone or file regularly on your feet at home. 

Patients regularly ask if the ultraviolet drying lamps will age skin as much as sunlight, on a different but important note about nail salons.

Especially if you have manicures regularly the answer is yes. You are not exposing the hands to damaging rays when you let the nails dry naturally taking longer. 

As the bottom line always bring your implements and decrease your chances of infection taking charge of your experience at your nail salon. 

Now, What Is That Growing Under Your Nail Tips?

Don’t use nail tips if you want to have beautiful hands is a good tip.

Wreaking havoc on real nails are fake nails also known as nail tips. Most people don’t realise how easy is it to get a nasty as well as a hard-to-treat fungal infection of their nails if they use nail tips regularly whereas applying those nail tips thereby in the occasion of importance is one thing. A dark moist environment that’s ideal for fungal growth which comes as the problem that there is always a gap between the real nail and the acrylic nail tip is the main problem.  

Every time you wash the hands' water collects under the nail tip and so think about it. There’s no way you can get to the moisture between your nails and the nail tip as you may think you are drying your hands thoroughly. Collecting bacteria that are easily transferable to food are also noted here in case you have very long nail tips. 

Caused by a tineal fungus or by a candida yeast are most of the nail infections. They are surprisingly difficult to eradicate completely as they are not usually life-threatening. Lying dormant and then reappear after a few months, the nail infection can appear to heal beautifully with treatment. 

It is not that effective and most of the time does not give a complete cure as the only topical treatment is the synthetic anti-fungal ciclopirox. These are powerful medications that may adversely affect the liver as nail infections usually require oral anti-fungal. You may need a monthly blood test to check liver enzymes depending on the regime of antifungals you are on. As you may not be able to take oral antifungals, if you have had hepatitis treating your fungus infection may be really difficult. 

Where fingertips are red and swollen and pus can be seen oozing out from under the nail tip, occurring just often but just as unsightly are staphylococcus bacterial infections. Make an immediate appointment with a dermatologist and be prepared to take antibiotics as no staph infection should ever be taken lightly. Infections can lead to permanent scarring of the nail, a condition called dystrophic nails in the worst-case scenario. There is absolutely nothing that can be done either to repair them or to cover them up once you have dystrophic nails. 

Finally, We Conclude The Discussion 

Having other problems too are nail tips. Thanks to an allergic reaction to the adhesive used to glue the tips, there are patients coming in with fingers the size of the breakfast sausages. It is no guarantee whatsoever that you will not react the fourth time in case you have no allergic reaction the first, second, or third time you use nail tips.

The nail tips are just not worth it considering the time and expense involved in treating nail infections, the risk of an allergic reaction, and the very real risk of permanently damaging your nails.