You’re never too old or young to start learning good personal hygiene habits, including how to cut your toenails the right way. I grew up with a single father and I distinctly remember him teaching me how to cut my toenails properly. We often forget about the little things that our parental figures do to help us become the people we are today. Yes, from cutting your toenails to hosting a dinner party, we get it from them, but ingrown toenails is often something that many parents don’t cover… in this blog, I drill down to the detail.
You might be surprised to learn that your feet carry about 100 different types of bacteria, and researchers say that the area between the skin and the nail is the perfect environment for many bacteria to thrive in. The underside of your nails, house a particular family called enterobacteriaceae that consists of salmonella and E. coli.
This would explain why it’s so incredibly easy to get various infections on our feet. For all the work our feet do for us, it’s important we are taking proper care of them.