Nail Surgery Redressing

After surgery, you need to keep the original dressing on for three days. Following this, you need to change it daily with salt water bathing for the first two weeks. After two weeks, dressing the toe every other day with salt water bathing should suffice.

This is how to change the dressing:

1. Boil the kettle to sterile the water
2. Put a tablespoon full of salt into a clean bowl
3. Wait for the water to go lukewarm and pour it into the clean bowl with the salt.
5. Bathe the toe in the salt water for 5 minutes
6. Let the toe air dry for 5 minutes.
7. Apply a small sterile dry dressing.