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I have a red, swollen toe with pus around the nail, what condition might this be?
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more than likely an ingrown toe nail. Generally, they remove the nail then when it grows back, do not cut them so far down. That is what is causing you to have it in the first place and always cut them straight across. Cutting them curved can also precipitate an ingrown nail.
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Oh, dear! That's a rare disease called 'stupid as feet'! You aren't stupid as feet, are you? If you are, the foot will take control and hit you in the head and knock you out cold and then it will take your boyfriend and make him throw away all his pictures of pretty girls in bathingsuits and then it will come back for you and it will make it so that your cell phone will blow up because Toni Spade's parents wouldn't buy her a cell phone and the toe will take the phone to me... I mean Toni Spade and I... I mean, Toni Spade will get to keep it!
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Go to a Doctor as soon as you can. You may get a worse infection.
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an infection
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in-grown toe nail. Soak it in warm water.. . Don't cut your nails to short.. . You may have to see a doctor.
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bunion , or athletes foot, check with a doctor
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An infection. Don't mess around with this. See a doc asap. You could chance losing that toe, or even your foot.
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A very nasty toe!. Go to the doctor!
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Sounds like an ingrown nail. See your doc.
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infected toe. you probably stubbed it. get checked out before it turns green. put some peroxide on it
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