How to Cut Toenails Properly | Foot Care

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Learn how to cut toenails properly with this Howcast video about foot care.

Hi. I'm Dr. John Fritz, and today we're going to talk a little bit about how to cut your toenails properly. The best time to cut your toenails is immediately after a bath or shower when your nails are soft and supple. You should use a proper toenail clipper to cut your nails, and the nails should be cut straight across.

I usually recommend to my patients leaving at least one millimeter of white showing at the tip of your nail, sort of like what a French manicure looks like. Avoid cutting into the sides of your nail, whereas this can lead to an ingrown toenail.

Don't push your cuticles back when you cut your nails. Leave them there. They are there for a reason. They help prevent bacteria and infection from going into the actual nail matrix.

A light emery board also works wonderful to smooth the nails and prevent jagged edges and to prevent them from catching on your socks.

If you are an athlete, runner, tennis player, basketball player, I usually recommend to cut your nails more frequently, because repetitive trauma at the tip of the shoe can lead to a black toenail or an infected ingrown toenail.

[OvhanDevos]

But you guys never actually showed us how to cut our toenails, you talked about it a bunch, and showed one clip, I mean, a lot of good info mind you, but. not what I was coming here for.

[coloradocenterfororthopaed]

Knowing the proper way to cut your toenails can save you from painful ingrowns.

[bunthansephierothkong]

Oh thanks didn’t know about cutting the sides it’s so hard to toe nails especially mines

[alexisfogg]

huh, So I have been doing it all wrong for all these years -that explains my ingrown toenail problem .

[addictedbrothers]

Yah my toenail turn to dust when I touch them

[xSampsa]

I hope that HowToBasic makes a spoof out of this

[TheSchwartz]

The only way i can tolerate my nails being cut is after soaking them! If I dont they cant be cut!

[colin]

I am yet to see a nail clipper big enough for my big toe nails :( Its always a daring mission

[HeeyManFishing]

Never cut straight across that leaves edges, round the nail .

[dannyboi...]

Wait sir I have small ingrown nail in my toe what do I do 💀

[DDRisTricky]

I have been cutting my toenails wrong this whole time.

[snokoan]

Do ingrown toenails grow on both sides of the toe?

[Unayox]

Lol, you need them for your balance actually :-P

[Truuuuuuuuu]

Who's watching this in 2017 Who came here because the sister wanted to see it

[KINGsizeWINNER]

0:37 not all toenails can be bent like that, especially the big toenails. How do you cut them properly? I have two big toenails that are ingrown and my podiatrist told me cut straight across but if I do that it leaves sharp edges and looks really funky. 

I've been using an emery board to smooth my nails down in length...I haven't cut them in over 3-4 months and that seems to get them down to the length they need to be. The problem is that it doesn't take much off the nail unless I actually use scissors and cut around the nail, tracing the white border... but this is what I'm getting the impression that we shouldn't do.

Please someone help!

[charlottedaniels]

how do I cut my toenails? ??? This VIDEO SUCKS!