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Fungal nail infection after ICU

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Hi all, since my partner came out of ICU some 5 months ago he has had a fungal nail infection on his big toe, he now has severe pain in the same foot any ideas!

Lynn

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jojokarak

Has he not been to the doctors?

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Drewlyn in reply to jojokarak

No, his Dr has been on holiday for a month the pain has only just developed over the last couple of days!

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jojokarak in reply to Drewlyn

Go to a walk in centre if it's really bad as it does take a while for our bodies to get strong enough again after a coma and infection may have spread into his toe so best to get it checked out 😀

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Ac17

Hello, sorry to hear that, she need to find out what type of fungi infection in order to know how to treat.

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