Pedicure-what was wrong with her nails?

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I am doing level 2 beauty therapy and today I had my first client pedicure, up to now it's just been on other students.

I had a lady in her late 60s/early 70s (trying to remember her dob from her record card! ) and during consultation she said that she had thick nails so she wanted them quite short as she struggles to do it herself. I asked if it was down to an underlying health condition and she said no just old age. So we get to the pedi and they are very thick, I struggled to cut and had to give them a short soak first which we've been taught to do afterwards. They were hard on top but quite soft and crumbly underneath. The big toe was completly normal, it was the others which were long and thick and she explained and said that after a bunion op she walks differently amd the pressure is on the tops of her toes. I asked if she had been to a chiropodist before and she said once a long time ago and I suggested she consider it as we were there to pamper and help beautify but they could give her better advice on the health of her nails. One of the nails had discolouration which would be seen more once I was up close and once cutting I could see it was kind of like a black thread going down to the matrix. She thought it was a twig or something stuck but as I clipped I could see it was right ingrained in the nail and I didnt recognise it from our contraindications we'd learnt so asked a tutor. She said it could be an infection (later on we discussed and she said she would have sent her away on consultation as a suspected fungal infection with those nails but it's a learning curve for me!) And client really was sure it was something out the garden that got stuck but I noticed it on a few other nails but not as dark or visible through the nail plate, but the same kind of black thread going down the nail. I have since got home and been googling and it sounds like it could be a melanoma?! I feel quite upset about it, I did say she ought to see a chiropodist for help with the cutting etc but i'm not sure if she will.

Feel quite down and a bit grossed out, I didnt realise the hard thick nails all crumbky underneath could be a fungal infection. Tools have been cleaned and sat in barbicide and will wash all my polishes as they were in the same bag! Tools will also go in the autoclave tomorrow.

Does anyone have some insight as my teacher didnt really seem to know what the problem was.

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Oh and I went half an hour over as a result!

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From what you have described it sounds fungal. But you did the right thing to refer her to a specialist (doc or chiropodist).

I've got a fungal infection and my nail is hard on the top but when i started to file the top down (as per instructions) it was all crumbly and started to come away :(

But i've applied the first lot of medicated polish so in a years time it should have gone Lol! what a wait.
 
What do you think about the black line?

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