Artificial Nails
- Thread starter Sara
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I did, twice. Probably best to ask your surgeon or other hospital specialist though.
Are yours long Sara? Mine are long but they are overlayed, my own nails are underneath. Don't know if that makes a difference.
Pretty long, but mine are overlayed too. Don't have the white tips on. Reason why i asked i have an appointment am to have my nails done and pm with the consultant. Probably jumping the gun a bit but my own doctor thinks i will need an op, and said with it coming up to Christmas i could be in around then if i have no objections.
Might be worth checking with the consultant first then. I know if you have glued on falsies you have to take them off but overlays are practically your own nail anyway. It's not like they could fall off during an op and get lost inside you, which is I think the reason why they say you must remove the stick on false ones.
As far as I know, you can keep them on but not have coloured polish on them, the polish must be clear for an op or it will be removed by the nursing staff with Acetone. A word of caution though...... microbiologists have taken swabs from underneath acrylic and gel nails. The swabs grow so many bugs that it is unbelievable (far more than under natural nails for some reason), you would never eat finger food with them again if you'd seen these swab results....
Another good way to clean under nails is shoving them into pastry - but don't use the pastry to make pies afterwards!
If you have natural nails with just an overlay will the swabs be the same as for natural nails Lettie? Mine seem to keep a lot cleaner when they are long and strengthened with overlays. If I leave them and the break they get dirt under whereas when they are long any dirt just falls off the end.
If you have natural nails with just an overlay will the swabs be the same as for natural nails Lettie? Mine seem to keep a lot cleaner when they are long and strengthened with overlays. If I leave them and the break they get dirt under whereas when they are long any dirt just falls off the end.
I don't know Willow, I wouldn't have thought that the swabs would have been worse for the gel/acrylic than with natural but for some reason, they are.....It beats me why.
Always said I'd never have false nails now I'm glad I haven't!!!!
Well it won't put me off having mine done because I can see the muck in them when they split and are short!
I thought that the reason you are not allowed to wear nail polish or false nails when having an operation was because the staff need to see the colour of your natural nails throughout. Something to do with your heart rate dropping if your nails go blue I think.
Well maybe that's why my overlays were OK then because they are not coloured. There could be a snag if you have long nails and they want to put one of those monitor thingies on the end of your finger.
I thought that the reason you are not allowed to wear nail polish or false nails when having an operation was because the staff need to see the colour of your natural nails throughout. Something to do with your heart rate dropping if your nails go blue I think.
LOL .. was just about to put up this info. Lilly .. but had to look up how to spell anaesthetist first
When I had two ops last year I asked about my nails and they just asked me if they were stuck on and likely to fall off. I demonstrated that you can't even pull them off as they are just my own real nails with a gel overlay and both times they just looked at them and said OK, must have been because you can see my nail bed with them just being transparent. Both occasions were at Royal Blackburn.
