Wear leather or heavy-duty fabric gloves for housework or gardening. Use a dishwashing machine or ask someone else to wash dishes. Avoid contact with irritating chemicals, such as paint, paint thinner, turpentine, and polish for cars, floors, shoes, furniture or metal. Use lukewarm water and very little mild soap to shower or bathe. All soaps are irritating.
Expensive soaps offer no more protection against irritation than less-expensive ones.
For bacterial paronychia, apply warm soaks. For minor pain, you may use non-prescription drugs, such as aspirin or acetaminophen. If You have symptoms of paronychia. Pain is not relieved by treatment. M.D. Copyright by Putnam Publishing Group.