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A 40-year old asked:
Can wearing plastic gloves ruin your nails?
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A 26-year old female asked:
I have a mat called bed of nails which are plastic nails that do not penetrate the skin but feel like nails. my cats were all over the plastic nails and Mat and Im having anxiety where I feel the cats will have tetanus and I will get it from the Mat?
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A 19-year old female asked:
I went to get my nails done and when I was filing with that plastic file (which I don't think was the new one), I started bleeding on about 2 fingers. I don't know if she had blood stains on her, but I was the first customer that day, can i get hiv?
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A 50-year old male asked:
Dear Drs, while shopping today I got a small cut by plastic cover on one of the items on one finger nail cuticle that bled a little. I wiped it with alcohol. This place is busy due to holiday season. Any risk for HIV or HEP? Do I need testing?
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A 16-year old female asked:
I'm 16 and got nail scars on my face when I was 3. Micro-needling and some radiowave light treatment at a plastic surgeon didn't work. What can I do?
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A 16-year old female asked:
Hi, I'm 16 years old. When I was a baby, I got nail scars on my face. They are thin almost like wrinkles, and still visible on my face. I went to a plastic surgeon and he told me that there was nothing he could do because it wasn't something surgical, he
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A 23-year old female asked:
Put hand sanitizer on outside of cheese while still sealed w/ plastic. Went to eat some & it tasted like hand sanitizer.19 w preg. Could it hurt baby?
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A 44-year old asked:
I've six fingers in my hand , can I get a better hand through plastic surgery?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I had plastic laser hand surgery and I took Tylenol and Im still in pain.
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A 50-year old female asked:
To apply ice after a knee, back,&hand injury, is it safe to put ice in a towel and apply it to the injury or put ice in a plastic bag&then in a towel?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I have a 1 year old son who has a splint on his right hand but his not reacting good to it ...what can I use to close the splint so that the plastic doesnt react to his skin ?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I had laser plastic surgery on my hand took Tylenol and Im still in pain ?
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A 21-year old female asked:
I n my friend wer makin fun around....I was playing with his penis....He ejaculated in the plastic....Later i touched my hand to the vaginal opening..
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A 120-year old male asked:
Do sperm wash away with hand sanitizer (ethyl { 70%) on a plastic surface and can kill it . If a sperm die it go away (evaporates) or stay on the surface Thank you?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I cut my finger (very shallow, small, superficial) on plastic broom and washed with soap immediately after and then used hand sanitizer. I think I already know the answer but is there risk of infection?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Today, cut (sharp poke) skin under index fingernail while fixing base of Swiffer mop in dusty garage, no bleeding, rinsed w/soap and water + hy peroxide + hand sanitizer. Don't know last booster (11+ yrs), is bacterium spore found on plastic?
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A female asked:
My foot feels numb in the heel of my left foot. When I walk maybe once are twice it felt like maybe plastic was on my foot. It only happens when I lay down.Also when I hold things to long it feel like my hand may go numb (not all the time but sometimes )
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A 50-year old male asked:
Concerned for HIV/HEP. While at grocery store yesterday picked up 5 gallon water bottle, my hand palm got few red spots blood under skin from bottle plastic cap. Assuming it cut me what are my risk for hiv and hep?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Hand immobilized in a custom-molded, hard plastic splint due to pinky flexor tendon surgery on Nov. 10. Despite daily home exercises and 2x/week hand therapy, pinky and surrounding fingers are swollen and stiff. What else can I do for relief?
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A 53-year old female asked:
Have acute infection of fourth finger on r hand @ base of cuticle x2 weeks -- now infection has spread down finger below 1st knuckle; yesterday started on doxycycline hyclate 100mgx2/day @ mupirocin 2% ointment & advised to seek plastic surgeon. Not co
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A 27-year old male asked:
I have Finger deformity in right hand of Absence of Middle phalanx & Joint and a Severe Finger Fracture in the Distal Phalanx and Joint, What treatment options do i have please ? Who should i Ask a Plastic surgeon or Orthopedic for surgery ?
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A 23-year old male asked:
A one time use plastic plate caught fire. I inhaled fumes while blowing on it to put the fire down. Will this exposure have consequences?
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A 23-year old female asked about a 24-year old female:
How do I find a platic surgeon that has performed back lifts before? I have had almost all my body lifted want to get off rolls on back?
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A 29-year old asked:
What in plastic makes it so unhealthy?
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A 45-year old asked:
Why do we have nails?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Black strips on nails?
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A member asked:
What causes nail clubbing?
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A 47-year old asked:
How to keep nails healthy?
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A male asked:
How to cut the nails correctly?
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A 18-year old female asked:
What are your nails made out of?
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