Dr. Eric Pack explains, "Discolored toenails ranging from white, yellow, green, brown, black - any color except a healthy, pink nail bed through a translucent nail unit, means you have a medical condition that should be diagnosed and treated. And the sooner the better. Abnormal looking toenails are usually a symptom of infection, a result of untreated trauma, and sometimes, most serious of all, a melanoma lesion."
Topics: Toenail Fungus Treatment, Toenail Pain, Bacterial Toenail Infection, Toe Pain, Toenail Injury Infection, Toenail Viral Infection, Discolored Toenail, Toenail Melanoma
A bacterial toenail infection resulting from toenail trauma occurs because the injury has lacerated the nail bed underneath the nail plate and exposed the nail bed tissue to bacterial contamination.
If there is an associated bone fracture with blunt force trauma to the toenail you may also be at risk for osteomyelitis (bone infection).
Topics: Toenail Bacterial Infection Treatment, Toe Pain, Toenail Injury Infection
