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Hit my acrylic nail resulting in lifting my real nail and I believe pushing the nail bed to skin

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diana20857
diana20857

I accidentally hit my acrylic nail against the cabinet causing it to lift my real nail bed and I think it also pushed my nail bed passing my cuticle. As you can see from the pictures, I believe that is my nail that should be under my skin. Should I keep it covered until the nail grows--of course I will put peroxide on twice a day. What should I do? Someone please help

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  • abi59281
    abi59281 diana20857

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    hi there similar thing happened roughly 10 days ago, was carrying on and tried to catch a pillow and it caught on mu acrylic and pulled my real nail back with it lifting it off the nail bed, ive had this happen a few months ago and it's resulted in my nail never coming back as i didn't treat it properly, theres a picture with the nail injury so far! if its hot, red, swollen go to a gp for antibioticsimage

  • gg57184
    gg57184 diana20857

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    If mine looks like this should I get the nail completely removed

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