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Thumb nail keeps getting infected, yellow puss, can't move it when i wake up, can get very hot, only happens on my thumb?
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See physician: This is a nail/cuticle infection. Followup with your physician and make sure that you do not have a cuticle/nail abnscess ( paronychia).
Answered 2/17/2015
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