Talk:Paronychia

message: I have been going through the list of orthopaedic conditions listed as stubs and suggesting this template for Orthopaedic Conditions (see Talk:Orthopedic surgery) 
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--Mylesclough 06:14, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Heading

message: I have a paronychia but no medical insurance. Does it go away on its own? Do I go to the doctor or is there an OTC antibiotic I can use? More details that answer my question would be helpful in the main article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.237.84.11 (talk) 21:32, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More specific 

message: Large chunks of this article appear to be identical to this BBC Health page
Feorag 16:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks pretty clear to me. According to this page the BBC is only concerned about large-scale copying for profit, but even still the article should be edited. Ciotog 03:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright infringement? 

message: I had to delete the section on treatment. The entire section was copied directly from WebMD, with a citation to the page that was plagiarized. This is neither acceptable, nor legal. You have to paraphrase what the sources say, not merely copy them word for word.--Srleffler (talk) 03:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment section deleted 

message: The bullet point in the treatment section on crocodile oil has no citations, and to my mind appears of dubious merit. Are there any objections to this point being deleted?
R is the gas constant (talk) 14:59, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crocodile Oil 

message: I've suffered from this in bouts, though I didn't know its name was "Paronychia" -- heck, I didn't even know it had a name! In my case, it's been caused by my own nail-biting, every time. I'm a chronic nail-biter (any tips on how to shake that habit gratefully accepted!), and when I bite a nail down to -- and into -- the cuticle, a throbbingly painful infection with pus sometimes follows. (I usually lance it open myself, with a sewing needle sterilised in a flame or some such... That's not the problem; the problem is squeezing out as much as possible of the pus afterwards. Now that hurts!)
I can't imagine this is a particularly rare reason for the condition, so maybe this should be mentioned in the article? Unfortunately, I can't just go throw in a paragraph or three about my own experience, as that would be "original research"! :-) So if anyone has any reliably-sourced text on this, I think that'd be a very useful addition to the article. -- CRConrad (talk) 20:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should there be something about how it can be caused by nail-biting? 

message: The article says "Paronychia is often treated with antibiotics, sometimes as a cream" -- but later it says, "Topical antibiotics or anti-bacterial ointments do not effectively treat paronychia."
Would someone with medical training please resolve this contradiction.   
Here's my anecdotal experience with paronychia:  putting antibiotic ointment on it did not prevent the nail from falling out.  (Fortunately, it later grew back.)  If oral is significantly more effective than topical, stating this in the article might prevent hundreds of Wikipedia readers from suffering nail loss. 207.224.123.93 (talk) 17:36, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oral vs. topical:  a contradiction in the article 

message: Hello to all! I am proposing a merge from the following articles into this article:
* Pyogenic paronychia
* Candidal paronychia
* Chronic paronychia
* Acute paronychia
This is for the following reasons:
* The main article would benefit significantly from having all this information in one place.
* These articles are very short in length (1-2 sentences) and have not been edited significantly in 3-4 years.
* This knowledge shouldn't be obscured from readers of this article by virtue of being isolated in an obscure article of 1-2 lines.
* These topics may receive more attention by being mentioned in the main article.
* The articles, if needs be, could be re-expanded at a later date.
Kind Regards, LT90001 (talk) 07:02, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Support Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 15:23, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge 

message: It would be helpful to have a set of pictures of different kinds of paronychias. One example can be seen at dermnetnz.org/fungal/paronychia.html
-71.174.175.150 (talk) 23:15, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes if you find some under an open license or take some yourself we can add them. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:36, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  pictures of different kinds of paronychias 

message: Onychomycosis is infection of the nail. Paronychia is infection around the nail. The lede of each article should make readers aware of the other, closely related article. (I have tried to cross-link the articles. My work was reverted. Now the matter is in your hands.) -71.174.175.150 (talk) 15:05, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It is already  listed here "Diseases of the skin and appendages by morphology" at the bottom. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:57, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely uselessly obscure and inadequate to help the average browsing reader to be aware of this very relevant potential confusion, between two very similar conditions.-71.174.175.150 (talk) 14:44, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Onychomycosis vs. Paronychia