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What you need:

• 1 bowl
• Camomile tea
• water
• anti-inflammatory ointment (optional)

Usually you have an inflammation in the toe (digitus) when you have injured the cuticle. Penetration inflammation developed from invading bacteria, which usually hurts very badly and often makes walking impossible.

Help properly with an inflammation in the digitus

• If you have an inflammation in your toe, anti-inflammatory foot baths are often very helpful. Here chamomile is often highlighted with its anti-inflammatory properties. For quick first aid, it is best to take a chamomile foot bath.
• To do this, boil about two to three liters of chamomile tea, preferably made from fresh or dried chamomile flowers.
• Let that tea Cool to about 39 ° C in a large bowl that can hold the inflamed foot.
• Then put the foot with the inflamed toe in it and leave it for approx. 10 minutes in the chamomile bath.


Inflamed toe - these home remedies will help

An inflamed toe is not only painful, but you also won't get into a shoe ...

• Do such a chamomile foot bath in the morning and evening for about 5 days.
• So that the inflamed toe does not touch the other Toes rubs and for even more pains, roll up a cotton ball and insert it as a spacer between the inflamed and healthy toe.
• If the inflammation doesn't improve, you will need a little more help. Then you can also get a bactericidal, fungicidal and virucidal ointment (Betaisodona) from the pharmacy and apply it to the inflamed toe during the day. Don't forget one band Aid sticking over it because the ointment rubs off a little. You can also make a very effective foot bath with a solution made from this substance.

Heal the injured toe completely

• If you have an inflamed toe, it must be completely healed. If the toe is treated half-heartedly and the inflammation continues, serious complications can develop from such inflammation.
• Poor blood circulation or a previous illness can lead to gangrene, which sooner or later can lead to an amputation of the affected toe.
• If in doubt and if the infection does not heal, consult a doctor to be on the safe side.