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What Causes Changes In Tip Of The Toe After An Injury?
My six year old daughter had stumbled her toe a while ago and the nail was black ans blue underneath for a long time. She is in gymnastics so she kept hitting and scraping it which made it hard to heal. I just looked at it recently and I have never seen anything like it...it looks like the tip of the skin is completely gone. The toe isn t discolored and it doesn t hurt but I almost looks like the tip of her toe is gone. She said she keeps scraping it. Could this be a infection or a fungus?
Thu, 9 Apr 2015
Thank you for following up. It can be fungal or bacterial infection . For excluding of fungus you should show this toe to dermatologist, he will take cells for culture, you try to apply chloramphenikol 1% 2 times and clotrimazole 2 times in different times 5 days, if you will not see effects then go to dermatologist. Your daughter should give rest to this finger for speedy recovery.
All the best
Dr.Svetlana Shrivastva
All the best
Dr.Svetlana Shrivastva
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