Well-groomed feet Is a complex concept that includes healthy nails. The unaesthetic appearance of feet and fingers can ruin not only the mood, but also signals the presence of pathologies or malfunctions in the body. Blackening of the nails speaks of external or internal problems, and this ailment, unfortunately, is quite common.

The reasons that the nail is on thumb legs suddenly changed its color, one should look not only in external influences, but also in internal factors. The first experts include:

• hemorrhage as a result of injury or trauma;
• damage to blood vessels due to wearing too tight shoes;
• external staining of the plate with poor-quality shoes or due to contact with some household aggressive substances;
• the use of bad varnishes for manicure without a preliminary protective base.

Internal causes of blackening of the nails should be looked for:

1.in a benign tumor of the thumb and overgrowth blood vessels under the plate;

2. in fungal diseases. The bacterial causes of the pathology can be assumed if the nails on the hands and feet turn black at the same time;

3. in cardiovascular pathology, especially if blackening of the plates on the arms and legs is observed;

4.in endocrine disorders: problems with thyroid gland, diabetes mellitus.

Fungal pathologies, in turn, cause not only blackening of the plate. Under the influence of bacteria, the nail begins to crumble, deform and exfoliate. In addition, the fungus is often the cause of unpleasant odor and increased sweating of the feet, together these symptoms are a serious basis for the assumption of a bacterial disease of the foot.

How to treat blackening?

After the reasons for why the nail is completely blackened have been established, therapy can be started. To eliminate the problem, you should use both medicines and folk remedies. Blackening as a result of injury should be treated according to a certain scheme.

1. Immediately after the injury, the finger is placed under cold water or ice. If the plate still turns black, then the procedure is carried out several times a day.

2. The site of injury should be disinfected to prevent tissue infection.

3. An extensive hematoma affecting the big toe nail is surgically opened in a clinic.

It is more difficult to treat darkening caused by internal problems. First of all, such a symptom may signal cardiovascular disorders in the body, so you should not postpone a visit to the doctor.

If the discoloration of the plate is not associated with heart problems, then the reasons should be sought in the bacterial basis of the pathology. Accordingly, the treatment is adjusted taking into account the antibacterial effect on the affected area.

• The black nail on the thumb is treated with antimicrobial varnishes or solutions. Lotseril, Batrafen, Mycosan are considered effective.
• Lubricate the nail plates on the feet local funds with an active active ingredient: Exoderil, Nizoral, Lamisil.

Do not ignore the trip to the hospital so that the doctor makes the correct diagnosis, because the bacterial reasons why toenails can turn black lie in the area of ​​various microbial lesions. Clinical analysis will be able to identify the pathogen and, accordingly, adjust the therapy.

If injury has been affected, depending on the type and severity of the injury, and what percentage of the nail is discolored, your doctor may decide to remove the nail to examine the nail for lacerations and exposed bone. If you are not injured and notice progressive discoloration, your doctor will need to order special tests, possibly including a biopsy. He or she will ask you about your actions leading to discoloration and about your medical and family history.

Black Toneal Treatment Options For You

It is important to know that in some cases, treatment is not necessary, especially for minor injuries. In these cases, black tonillade will eventually fall off on its own or grow back. However, if in doubt, you should make an appointment with a podiatrist. Your podiatrist will determine the cause and severity of the problem, which will determine the treatment he recommends.

Treatment with non-traditional means

Blackened nail plates on the feet can be treated with traditional medicine.

1. If the problem arose as a result of an injury, then it is considered effective:

• warm treatment soda solution, which makes the plate itself softer and accelerates tissue healing;
• treat the area affected by a fungal infection with calendula tincture, which has antiseptic properties.

2. If the blackening of the nails is due to a fungal infection, then folk methods impacts can be considered:

• vinegar baths for a quarter of an hour. The solution for the procedure is prepared from 3 liters of warm water and a glass of vinegar;
• vinegar lotions, which are recommended to be done immediately after the baths for a quarter of an hour. Such treatment is carried out using a cotton pad dipped in table vinegar, which is applied to the area of ​​microbial lesion;
• tea tree oil baths are prepared with a few drops of oil and warm water. The feet are immersed in ankle-deep water for 20 minutes.

Keep in mind that your thumbnail can turn black due to insulin problems and the progression of diabetes. The correct cause that caused the blackening of the plate can only be determined by a specialist, so you should not delay a visit to the doctor.

Can Black Toenails Be Prevented?

Here are some tips to help you prevent black toenails. The shoe should offer a toe wide enough for the toes so that the toes are not pressed together. Try to avoid walking barefoot; this can make your toes and feet susceptible to injury or trauma. Keep your feet and nails clean and dry. Always wear clean socks and shoes. Let the boots go out of use. Treat any nail problems on early stages... Talk to your podiatrist for additional prevention tips.

• Keep your toenails neat, not too short or straight.
• Wear suitable footwear.
• Wear shoes that protect your feet.
• Be careful when moving heavy objects.

Here are some questions you can ask your doctor about black toenails.

Preventive measures

Treatment of the unaesthetic problem of darkened plates on the legs takes a lot of time and effort, so you should pay attention to the prevention measures for this pathology. It is easier to prevent any disease than to engage in complex and complex therapy later.

First of all, it is worth remembering that the nail may turn black due to too narrow shoes, but you should not take this lightly: the discoloration of the plate itself occurs as a result of the lack of normal blood supply to the toe. The first preventive measures are:

• wearing properly fitted and well-colored shoes;
• use of high-quality manicure varnishes.

Preventive measures also include:

1. Compliance with foot hygiene.

2. Treatment of the nail twice a day with iodine.

3. Use of individual shoes on the beach, in the sauna, steam bath.

4. Timely prevention of excessive sweating of the feet.

5. Use for manicure and pedicure well-processed, preferably individual instruments.

If the nail on the thumb turns black, the person experiences internal discomfort, especially in the summer. Sometimes this is accompanied by physical negative sensations: pain, itching, burning. Dermatologists pay attention to the fact that a darkened nail on the big toe is a kind of indicator of internal problems in the body. The nail plate turns black - it's time to "sound the alarm", because the most common cause of pathology is the fungus. Timely started treatment significantly speeds up the recovery period, and a comprehensive examination helps to timely identify complex pathological processes in the body.

Folk remedies from the newspaper "Vestnik HLS"

Gangrene of the lower extremities - causes, symptoms, prevention

From a conversation with the surgeon V.N. Kapralov.

Causes of gangrene lower limbs: stress, skin trauma, chronic diseases (diabetes), wearing tight shoes, especially after hypothermia of the feet, alcohol and smoking abuse.

The first symptoms of gangrene: pain in the area of ​​the toes, burning of the soles, redness, swelling, the legs begin to freeze even in a warm room, pain in the calves appears while walking, the big toe blackens

If you are in frost and frostbitten feet, you need to urgently take action and restore blood circulation. Warm (but not hot!) Baths with nettle infusion, mustard, turpentine will help - warm your feet and massage them.

Prevention of gangrene of the lower extremities:

1. A course of aspirin (domestic) 1/2 tablet 2 times a day for a month.
2. Spacious footwear.
3. Daily washing of feet in cold water followed by a massage until red with a terry towel.
4. Move more and eat less.
5. Do not eat animal fats rich in cholesterol, which is deposited in blood vessels and impedes blood circulation.
6. Give up spicy and salty foods, alcohol and smoking.
7. Do not cut your nails short, sit in a comfortable position without pinching the blood vessels.
8. Walk barefoot more often.

(HLS 2010, No. 10, pp. 14-15)

Proven folk remedies for gangrene.
Grated potatoes

Treatment of gangrene of the lower extremities at home with grated potatoes
The woman suffered from thrombophlebitis of the lower extremities. There were numerous ulcers on the skin, the legs were swollen to the knees, the skin was purple-blue, the ulcers oozed lymph. The medications did not help, the patient had been unable to get out of bed for a month and was preparing for amputation. Once a friend came to visit and offered a simple folk remedy for gagrnene. She rubbed the pink potatoes with their skins, covered the legs with plastic on top and secured with cloth bandages. In the morning, the skin became light, the wounds healed, the woman was able to get out of bed. In the evening, the procedure was repeated and this was done every evening, after a week the legs regained their normal appearance. (HLS 2003, No. 17, p. 11).

Compresses with potatoes saved the hand
The woman was given a "hot" chloride injection into a vein, but the nurse punctured the vein and injected the drug into the muscle. An hour later, a lump swelled at this place, after three the whole hand was terribly swollen, and hellish pain began. The woman turned to the nurse, and she was horrified. She began to give injections of magnesia, not hiding that these measures were already late, and the blockade had to be carried out in the first hour. Otherwise, the tissue may die off. Chlorine has already spread and has begun its destructive effect. Medicine was powerless, the woman was threatened with amputation of her arm. Then she decided to take a chance and use a simple folk remedy - grated potatoes. The nurse ran to the store for potatoes, the woman washed and rubbed them, put the gruel on her hand. After a few hours, the pain subsided. On this day, she covered her hand with potatoes twice more, and made a compress of urine at night.
Doctors resorted to find out how things were going, and also approved this method. A week later, the skin color returned to normal, the tumor subsided. But for several months the hand hurt. but still they managed to save it.

How to treat gangrene with burdock leaves

How to treat gangrene at home with nettles
Tear off the leaves of burdock, rinse, chop in a meat grinder and wrap the damaged area with gruel, fix with foil and cloth. Change dressings in the morning and evening. (HLS 2005, No. 10 p. 26).

1. Review of treatment with burdock No. 1
   During welding, sparks with droplets of hot metal hit the man's skin just above the ankle. The place of the burn turned red, there was severe pain, soon the damaged burn surface fell off, they decided that this would be the end of it. But no, the leg from the ankle to the groin became inflamed, swollen, and turned purple. But the man did not complain to anyone, he just lay in bed and answered everyone “I am sick”. When the temperature rose to 40 degrees, and the pain became unbearable, he asked to call a doctor. When the doctor and relatives saw the leg, it was in a terrible state - it was swollen and began to turn black. They took him to the hospital, and there, seeing people with amputated limbs, the patient decided to run away. At home, he took out a healthy lifestyle file from the closet, chose all the recipes and began to treat gangrene with folk remedies. In the morning, in the dew, he went out barefoot to the garden, tore up nettles there and whipped it with force all over his leg. Then he picked up burdock leaves, crumpled them so that the juice would come out, put these leaves on the sore leg and bandaged them with strips of an old sheet. I did this 4-5 times a day. I also took Shevchenko's mixture 4 times a day. Gradually, the redness disappeared, the swelling subsided, everything returned to normal. (HLS 2010, No. 12 p. 4).
2. Review number 2
   The man was admitted to the hospital - gangrene of the leg, amputation was scheduled for Monday. His wife came to him on Friday with a bag of dry burdock leaves and began to heal on her own. She dipped 2-3 pieces of burdock leaves into a boiling kettle, immediately laid them on a sheet so that the water would glass and put a few leaves on top of each other on the sore leg, then wrapped them in foil, rags, and a warm shawl. I changed the bandages in the morning and in the evening. When the doctors arrived on Monday, they saw patches of pink skin. The operation was not required (HLS 2002, No. 22, p. 5).

Treatment of gangrene without amputation - carrot juice helped

1. Case number 1
   The man froze his feet, gangrene began, amputation was prescribed, but the nurse advised the patient to refuse the operation, and promised to cure him herself. Every day she gave the patient freshly squeezed carrot juice to drink. After three months of such treatment, the gangrene receded - there was no amputation.
2. Case number 2
   Another man had already amputated his legs, he soon noticed that the pads on his palms began to turn blue, began to drink carrot juice, the blackness disappeared (HLS 2001, No. 19, p. 6).

Gangrene of the leg - treatment with yogurt compresses

The man injured his leg and did not pay attention until she began to bother him, went to the doctors, they recognized gangrene of the leg, it was too late to prescribe treatment, they decided to amputate. But the man refused the operation and went home. I did not sleep at home for several nights - it did not give pain. Somehow his gaze fell on the sour milk, he decided to apply the yogurt to the skin so that it would not burn so much. I made a compress and slept for two days. When I woke up and unwound the bandage, I saw that the condition had improved significantly, the swelling was asleep. He began to make further compresses from yogurt, the gangrene of the leg was gone. (HLS 2004, No. 2, p. 10)

The man had diabetes for about 20 years. The disease gave a complication - the legs began to swell, then the big toe on the right turned black, and the entire sole turned dark blue, amputation threatened. He began to look for folk remedies, prompted him a recipe with yogurt. The man took village milk, fermented it, soaked cheesecloth in 4 layers in curdled milk and wrapped the foot and the area of ​​the instep. He put on a plastic bag on top, secured everything with a cloth. This compress was left overnight. In the morning I washed my leg without soap. In the evening I repeated the procedure. He carried out treatment for a month. It helped him - the foot took on a normal look, the skin became soft. (recipes for healthy lifestyle 2007, No. 9, p. 31, 2008, No. 14, p. 9)

Clay compresses

A folk healer from Chuvashia treats gangrene with clay. It is better to breed clay in mare's or cow's urine, you can also use your own urine, dilute the clay with water on thin horses: for 3 kg of clay - 3 liters of liquid. Stir the clay until thick sour cream, leave overnight. In the morning, lubricate sore skin areas by applying a clay solution directly to the wounds. Then cover with plastic wrap for 2 hours. After 2 hours, carefully wash off the hardened clay with water. If the wounds are deep, then keep the clay for 3-4 hours. Do this procedure daily. After 10 days, the result will be visible. This folk remedy also helps to cure arthrosis of the lower extremities, thrombophlebitis. (HLS 2007, p. 28, No. 13).

Clay treatment review
Here is a case of how a woman was able to save her hands with the help of clay. In winter, she severely frostbitten them, they turned black and began to fester, she was afraid to go to the hospital, because she decided that her hands were being amputated there, she began to look for ways to treat gangrene with folk remedies. A neighbor said she was able to cure her 80-year-old mother of foot necrosis with clay. The clay must be diluted with water to such a consistency that it can be applied to a sore spot with a thickness of 2-3 cm. It is necessary to apply the clay to the blackened skin through 1 layer of gauze, compress paper on top, then fix everything with a woolen scarf. It is advisable to go to bed and cover yourself with a warm blanket. Keep the compress for 2-3 hours. With severe pain, keep as long as you can endure. After a short rest, apply the compress again. (2005, No. 8, p. 26).

Gangrene of the foot in diabetes mellitus - folk remedies

A woman's son has been suffering from diabetes for many years. Folk remedies help to treat gangrene of the foot and purulent wounds:

1. Massage with this disease, doctors do not advise doing it, but a woman does it. Very light, like a caterpillar crawling.
2. Sophora tincture- well removes blackness from the skin. Fresh sophora fruits must be washed, cut, put into a jar and filled with vodka in a 1: 1 ratio. Insist 10 days, strain, squeezing out the fruits. Dense tissue is well oozed in the tincture and applied to the affected area. It dries quickly, so you need to moisten it again every few hours. Instead of bandages, it is better to use strips from old sheets, boiling them well.
3. Pink potatoes- also removes blackness well. It must be grated on a fine grater and applied to the sore spot. Change to fresh every 2-3 hours.
4. Yogurt- helps to treat leg gangrene. To cook it, a woman boils 1 liter of milk, cools until warm, adds 1 tbsp. l. sour cream, stir and - in a thermos. The thermos shakes several times, every 1-2 hours. After 6 hours, the yogurt is ready.
5. Baked onion helps with purulent wounds (if pus does not go well). The onion should be cut in half and secured to the wound.
6. Birch tar also helps to heal purulent wounds. It must be mixed with a wooden spoon with an egg white chicken eggs in a 1: 1 ratio. Eggs should be taken no more than 3 days of freshness. The mixture should be slightly thicker in consistency than water.

(HLS 2015, No. 4, p. 7).

Comfrey treatment
Comfrey ointment
Comfrey is a wonderful folk remedy for the treatment of gangrene. It actively stimulates the formation of new cells of damaged tissues, accelerates their healing. When applied externally, the most healing properties possesses comfrey ointment. The ointment can be prepared from one comfrey, but it is better to make it in combination with chestnut flowers and white acacia flowers. Here is one of the recipes for an ointment for gangrene in diabetes mellitus: mix 5 parts of comfrey root and 1 part of chestnut and acacia flowers, moisten with vodka, leave for 30 minutes in a warm place. Add 3-4 parts of pork fat and simmer in the oven for 2-3 hours, avoiding boiling. This folk remedy will also help in the treatment of varicose veins, bruises, spurs, joint pain.
How to use: apply ointment to the damaged area and cover with a burdock leaf (in winter - with a cloth or cabbage leaf) and bandage (recipe from healthy lifestyle 2011, No. 10, p. 28,)
Decoction of roots
But a simpler folk remedy for gangrene, which the reader found in an old folk medicine: 2 tbsp. l. crushed comfrey roots are poured with 1 glass of hot water, boiled for 10 minutes and a compress is made from the strained broth. (2006, No. 17, p. 30)

Healing ointment
The man suffered from diabetes for a long time. Despite the fact that the patient monitored the sugar level, and the sugar after eating was 6-7 units, complications began, namely gangrene of the foot. An operation was performed, a stent was placed, blood circulation in the legs improved, but the ulcer did not heal, and osteomyelitis of the toe began. The surgeon insisted on the amputation of the finger, but the patient did not agree. We prepared an ointment according to a prescription from a healthy lifestyle (No. 19 for 2004), began to apply bandages with ointment 2 times a day, observing sterility. Then the bandages were changed once a day. In the spring, when the first leaves of plantain and burdock appeared, they began to add leaves to this ointment. Recovering was slow, taking about 4-5 months. The doctor could not believe his eyes, he said that he had not seen a single case of recovery from osteomyelitis.
Ointment recipe.
All components are taken in equal parts - 50 g each: rosin, wax, honey, unsalted melted lard, laundry soap, sunflower oil- everything is crushed and brought to a boil, mixed thoroughly. When the mass has cooled down a little, add onion, garlic and aloe grated on a fine grater to it - also 50 g each. Store the ointment in the refrigerator, but before applying it to the wound, heat the required portion in a water bath. (HLS 2010, No. 23, p. 23).

Review of the treatment with this ointment
Old woman, suffering from diabetes mellitus and with gangrene of the leg in the last stage, was discharged home to die, since she had contraindications for amputation surgery. A village grandmother helped to cure gangrene at home - she told the recipe for the ointment described above. They began to apply this ointment to the sore leg every day. The pain did not subside for 30 days. On the 31st day, bleeding began. Black blood came out, but the pain stopped. The bleeding opened several more times. Gradually, the wound healed. Over time, even a young nail has grown. Not a trace of that black rot, which was in place of a leg, remained. (HLS 2004, No. 19, p. 26).

Folk remedies for the treatment of foot gangrene in diabetes mellitus are described in large quantities in the article

Home treatment for gangrene - folk remedies that have helped avoid amputation

Gangrene of the lower extremities - treatment at home with a golden mustache.
When the man's foot began to turn black, a golden mustache helped. He grinded the leaves and mustaches of the golden mustache in a meat grinder, diluted the resulting mass with alcohol 1: 1. Day and night, he made compresses, moistening the fabric in this tincture, so that the fabric was constantly wet, it should not be covered with polyethylene. (Recipes for healthy lifestyle 2011, No. 6, p. 38,)

Leeches accidentally saved
In the 50s, the man's shin became ill, swollen, turned blue, ulcers formed, gangrene began for all the symptoms. Once on a fishing trip, he went into the water up to his knees, and when he got out, he saw that his sore lower leg was completely covered with leeches. Long tore them from the skin. But a miracle happened - the swelling subsided, gradually the leg healed completely. (Recipes for healthy lifestyle 2012, No. 18, p. 41)

Alternative treatment of gangrene of the finger with aloe.
A man at work pierced his finger. After a while, the finger was swollen, pain appeared. The next day the doctor diagnosed erysipelas. They were admitted to the hospital, treated with antibiotics, but the finger ached and festered. The pus was removed surgically, and soon a black non-bending stump with an unpleasant odor remained from the finger. In addition, my whole arm ached, and the doctors could not stop the process. Then the wife of this patient decided to treat her husband according to the Bolotov method. To do this, she kneaded the pulp of aloe leaf (1 part) with salt (9 parts), poured hydrogen peroxide on her sore finger and applied a bandage with salted aloe pulp. The bandage was changed every 2 days. I repeated this 10 times. And the recovery has begun! The finger stopped festering, the blackness disappeared, the putrid smell disappeared, after 1.5 months the finger became covered with pink skin, the pain was gone. The aloe dressings continued to be applied, and a new nail gradually grew. (Review from HLS 2011, No. 24, p. 30)

Amanita tincture
The woman's foot turned black and blue. A diagnosis of gangrene of the lower extremities was made and amputation was prescribed. One of the neighbors in the ward advised her a folk remedy - rubbing from fly agarics. Her husband brought her vodka and fly agarics, she put it all together, and without waiting for it to be infused, she began treatment. I rubbed my leg with this mass, endured it, and after a while rubbed it again. At night, she covered her leg with a damp vodka and mushroom mass. After a few days, the foot brightened, gained sensitivity, the doctors decided to postpone the operation for 10 days. During these 10 days, the blackness completely disappeared, the skin turned pink. (recipe from HLS 2001, No. 23, p. 23).

Vishnevsky ointment
The woman had a stroke, the left side was paralyzed. Soon the paralyzed leg began to swell. The whole leg was swollen and reddened, and the heel turned blue, the condition deteriorated sharply. Relatives were already preparing for the worst, but they were prompted by a folk remedy for gangrene.
It is necessary to take cotton cloth, moisten with vodka, wrap the leg, smear Vishnevsky's ointment on top of the cloth, cover with parchment paper and secure with strips of cloth.
For three evenings in a row, at night, the patient did such a compress on the entire leg, in the morning the compress was removed, and the skin was wiped with vodka. On the fourth day, the tumor subsided. (HLS 2009, No. 6, p. 31)

Frog
The woman had diabetes mellitus, her foot began to turn black, the doctors suggested amputation. But a friend advised me to try an unusual remedy. On the sore leg, you need to put on a stocking and run a frog into the stocking. The frog, crawling on the skin, absorbed the toxins and quickly died. After that, they planted another frog, and so on. So the woman changed frogs for three days, the skin acquired a normal color, the gangrene of the foot was gone. (2008, No. 19, pp. 31-32)

Sea buckthorn oil in folk remedies
The man, cutting his toenails, inadvertently cut off part of the skin, blood flowed. He didn’t pay attention to it, didn’t work it, so as not to stain the bed with blood, put on a sock and went to bed. In the morning I took off my sock and found that the injured toe had turned black. He could not go to the hospital, since he was a disabled person of the 1st group, he decided to treat finger gangrene at home with folk remedies. Of the suitable folk remedies, he only had sea buckthorn oil. It was with this oil that he smeared his finger overnight, wrapped it with plastic on top and put on a sock. After 20 minutes, severe pain began from finger to knee. The patient drank pentalgin, after 10 minutes the pain was gone. Smear sea ​​buckthorn oil it lasted 5 days - on the fifth day the blackness from the finger disappeared (2008, No. 10, p. 25)

Coniferous drink is a folk remedy for gangrene of the lower extremities.
Needles helped to cure gangrene. 5 tbsp. l. Pour chopped needles with 0.5 liters of water, cook in an enamel pan for 10 minutes, then wrap the pan and leave overnight. Drink warm instead of water throughout the day. This prescription was given to the patient by a doctor from Simferopol. The man also added a few rose hips and a handful of onion husks to the needles. (HLS 2004, No. 16, p. 23)

White lily oil
Fill a glass jar with white lily flowers, you can fill it with unrefined sunflower oil along with the stems and put in a dark cool place for 2 weeks. Then strain. Apply a cloth soaked in this oil to the affected area, parchment on top. Change the bandage every three hours, and treat the sore spot with a solution of potassium permanganate. With the help of this folk remedy the patient managed to cure a blackened and rotting toe. (HLS 2003, No. 8, p. 19).

Homemade ointment made from oil, wax and yolk.
Pour 1 cup of vegetable oil into an enamel bowl, add wax the size of a matchbox. Put on low heat to melt the wax. Take half the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, grind it and throw it in small particles into the boiling mixture. The mixture immediately begins to foam and run out of the container - it must be quickly removed from the heat. When the bubbling calms down, throw in the next portion of the yolk. Then strain the resulting mixture through a nylon cloth. The ointment is ready. Before use, heat the dog of the desired consistency in a water bath.

This ointment heals trophic ulcers and gangrene - apply napkins with ointment to the wound, change every 2 hours. Pus will flow abundantly from the wounds (recipes for healthy lifestyle 2004, No. 23, p. 10)