Nailed.
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Good Morning all,
Would really appreciate a wee bit of help with my mums nails. Bit of background first: She has worn polish for years, non stop. About 4 years ago she took an infection of sorts under her thumb nail and has had antibiotic and drainage treatment quite a few times (nice!). The actual nail is starting to lift at the free edge away from the nail bed and it does cause her some pain. The other thumb is not normal either but just not as bad. She has been to a specialist at the hospital who advised she needed her nails removed and the tissue underneath "scraped" off. As you would imagine my Mum was not overjoyed at the prospect but waited for a hospital appointment to have procedure done. Long story short, hospital messed up, they gave her the run around for a year and now she says she'll live with it. Hmmm. Mum seems to be allergic to so many chemicals, hair dyes are a no no and so on.
Now getting to my question, sorry for long post. When wearing polish on the fingernails, even on the good ones she needs to take it off within a few hours as she can feel them tightening up as if her nails can't cope with the polish. 1 coat of colour is ok for a few hours but say base, 2 x colour and a top coat would be off within 10 mins.
I was wondering would she have an allergy to a chemical in the polish? No probs with toes though so that's why I ruled allergy out. I think I read on here about CND polish being free of certain chemicals so I'm going to order 1 and try it or is there anything else you would recommend .
It really gets to her, she hates naked nails and the discolouration under the thumbs really upsets her. She's been through so much recently that being able to paint her nails would really give her a pick up.
Thank you in advance.
Would really appreciate a wee bit of help with my mums nails. Bit of background first: She has worn polish for years, non stop. About 4 years ago she took an infection of sorts under her thumb nail and has had antibiotic and drainage treatment quite a few times (nice!). The actual nail is starting to lift at the free edge away from the nail bed and it does cause her some pain. The other thumb is not normal either but just not as bad. She has been to a specialist at the hospital who advised she needed her nails removed and the tissue underneath "scraped" off. As you would imagine my Mum was not overjoyed at the prospect but waited for a hospital appointment to have procedure done. Long story short, hospital messed up, they gave her the run around for a year and now she says she'll live with it. Hmmm. Mum seems to be allergic to so many chemicals, hair dyes are a no no and so on.
Now getting to my question, sorry for long post. When wearing polish on the fingernails, even on the good ones she needs to take it off within a few hours as she can feel them tightening up as if her nails can't cope with the polish. 1 coat of colour is ok for a few hours but say base, 2 x colour and a top coat would be off within 10 mins.
I was wondering would she have an allergy to a chemical in the polish? No probs with toes though so that's why I ruled allergy out. I think I read on here about CND polish being free of certain chemicals so I'm going to order 1 and try it or is there anything else you would recommend .
It really gets to her, she hates naked nails and the discolouration under the thumbs really upsets her. She's been through so much recently that being able to paint her nails would really give her a pick up.
Thank you in advance.