PARONYCHA Treatment

Chronic paronychia due to yeast or staphylococcal infection is a troublesome disease in housewives and others whose occupations necessitate repeated immersion of the hands in water. The first essential is to enforce dryness, and unless this can be done the chance of cure is small. Nystatin ointment can be applied at night and worked into the nail fold. During the day the patient should use a preparation which will readily seep into the nail fold such as • Castellani's paint or hydrargphen. The usual sources of infection are the garden, the kitchen sink and the bowel. When the condition has healed, special care should be taken to avoid trauma to the hands through working in the garden or in the kitchen .since these forms of injury open the way for further infection.