I have a ONE teeny piece of sand under my big toenail. It's been there for about 3 days now. It hurts! I can SEE it, but I can't get it out. I've tried soaking my foot in epsom salts, digging under there with my fingernail/sterlized straight needle, clipping it down, and using a piece of dental floss to get under there. I can't get this painful little sucker out!!
What tried and true remedies have you tried for a stupid piece of sand under your toenail?!
My suggestion it to stick your foot under the faucet while its running full blast while trying to hold that area open with your fingers. Water is an amazing thing. If you have a high pressue nozzle on your hose outside that might work better.
Get a pedicure honey!!! That soooo sucks!!! I had a splinter under my toe nail - it took about 3 weeks for it to finally get pushed to the spot I could get it!! IT SUCKED!!!!!
Good luck!!! the more you dig under there the more inflamed it will get and make it harder to get out.
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I don't think you're going to get this out the way it came in.
Trying to approach it from that angle will only push it in further and irritate the tissue all around it.
Although the tissue beneath your nail is sensitive, the nail itself has no nerve endings - it feels nothing - that's why we can cut, trim and file nails.
When I dropped a lock on my left big toe on a tile floor in gym in college, I had a huge blood blister develop beneath the nail which was excruciatingly painful.
The blister turned black within a day.
I sterilized a needle and burnt a small hole through the nail so it could drain and the relief was immediate.
The nail did die and fall off (it was going to do that anyway) but it grew back to normal within 2 months.
You might want to try to burn a small hole through the nail directly over the bit of sand to get it out.
The nail will keep growing and the hole will be gone before you know it.
I doubt this will work on sand but it works on glass so you might give it a shot. Duct tape. Seriously I've pulled out splinters, glass, small pebbles and once even a bee stinger that wouldn't budge.
