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Aloha,

I'm typing this post at a disadvantage. I have a bandaid on my
right index finger. Last week it was on my left middle finger.
Occasionally I get a paronychia. That's just a fancy word for a
nail bed infection. It happens when you cut a hangnail to the quick
and the nicked skin close to the nail gets infected. It's very
painful and if you look on the internet for pictures, they can be
pretty gross. 

After the first one I thought I should blog about it but got too
busy with my Future Health Now modules. When I started to get
another one, I decided someone was trying to tell me something!

Here's the standard treatment on Medscape for acute paronychia from
a doctor at the Cleveland Clinic.

1. Warm water soaks of the affected finger 3-4 times per day until
symptoms resolve are helpful.

2. Oral antibiotics with gram-positive coverage against S aureus,
such as amoxicillin and clavulanic acid (Augmentin) or clindamycin
(Cleocin), are usually administered concomitantly with warm water
soaks. Cleocin and Augmentin also have anaerobic activity;
therefore, they are useful in treating patients with paronychia due
to oral anaerobes contracted through nail biting or finger sucking.
Cleocin should be used instead of Augmentin in patients who are
allergic to penicillin.

3. If the paronychia does not resolve or if it progresses to an
abscess, it should be drained promptly. (Draining means, cutting
into the abscess.)
Sounds like a war zone doesn't it. When all you really have to do
is use a bread poultice or a clay poultice. I used to use bread but
since I don't eat bread anymore, I use clay. Either works but clay
is less messy and had more advantages. 

At the first sign of redness or sensitivity or pain around your
nail bed wet an inch square of any type of bread and tape it on the
area. Use several bandaids or medical tape from the drug store. If
you have clay on hand, mix 1/8th tsp with a few drops of water to
make a paste and put an amount the size of a pea on the area and
cover with a bandaid. 

You can do the treatment at night and in the morning the infection
is either gone or has come to a head. With a sterile needle (boiled
for 15 min in water) you may be able to pop the skin and squeeze
out the pus. Then put another poultice of clay on the area to
complete the treatment.

Bread is just going to soften the area and bring the infection to a
head but clay will draw out the toxins at the same time. That's
much different than attacking the whole body with antibiotics
hoping they are smart enough to target your finger. But they are
not. I've said before and I'll say it against, antibiotics are
stupid drugs and kill everything in sight. They might not even get
to the bacteria causing your infection because all the swelling
cuts off the circulation.

The clay I use and recommend is LL's Magnetic Clay (
http://www.magneticclay.com/123.html ) which I talk about all the
time for gentle detoxification, treating acne and other skin
conditions. Now you can add paronychia to the list.

Carolyn Dean MD ND
The Doctor of the Future

P.S. I apologize in advance to people who write me with personal
health questions. I will no longer be able to answer them but must
confine myself to answering emails from clients and members of
Future Health Now! I am working on cloning myself and when that
process is complete I will then be able to answer the 100+ emails I
get every day. However, please send general questions that I may be
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