Onychomycosis-Damage on the nail with pathogenic fungi with dermatophytes.According to various sources, from 10% to 30% of the world's population suffer from nail fungus.It is possible that the reason for this in weak symptoms that do not disturb a person at the beginning of the infection.However, as fungal activity begins to cause annoyance, its treatment becomes problematic.
How to know a fungus standing
The primary symptoms are expressed by itching around the nail, the inter -material area.In the future, there is an inflammation of the nail roll, skin ulcer between the fingers, pain.Damage to failure begins with color changes, nail plates: stains (white, yellow), stripes appear.The surface of the nail loses its shine, becomes a wave.If you do not pay attention to the problem, then the affected nails are thickened and deformed so that they are no longer wiped out of any cosmetic method.
There are three stages of onycomycosis:
- Normal- Small dots on the surface of the plate, maintaining thickness, shape, nail glow.
- Hypertrophic- Deep loss causes nail tissue growth, characterized by a loose structure, wave -like growth and crushed edges of the nail.
- atrophy- The affected nail is rejected, on the nail bed there are deformed nail tissue residues of an atypical color.
Fungi are contrast, with symptoms of onycomycosis, you should contact a dermatologist (ideally - for a mycologist).After all, close people can mainly become infected, as the most difficult to avoid in the family of close contact (and infection).
Freelance treatment with pharmacological antimicosis, especially tabletized ones, is not recommended.Tablets advertised by the manufacturer as a masking weapon from the fungus can have a side effect that does not harm the patient.Moreover, the pathogens of the disease can be different types of fungi.Only a doctor can choose tablets that are as effective as possible in each specific lesion.And only in a medical institution it is possible to identify the "enemy" using laboratory research (scrap, planting).
Risk factors for infection with a nail fungus
It is noted that children practically do not suffer from a nail fungus, perhaps due to the rapid growth of the nail.The risk group starts from young people at a very old age.Most often the fungus affects people:
- With weakened immunity - chronic illness, frequent colds, diabetes, HIV.
- Not observing personal hygiene - walking in public places with an increased risk of infection (baths, saunas, swimming pools) without clay, wearing other people's shoes, using other people's families (towels, manicure accessories).
- In contact with patients with mycosis - if the family has a person with a fungus on the nails.
Hand damage can occur due to the frequent exposure of aggressive agents (cleaners, cleaning agents).Violation of the integrity of the nail plate with chemicals, the formation of microcirculation on the nails facilitates the penetration of fungi into the nail.
The fungus in the legs will be happy to be placed in a person practicing the wearing of indecent shoes: a stalled air, not passing to promote sweating legs: a wet wet environment, and even with the formation of micrococks, particles on the skin of the feet and nails - this is an ideal place for life.
Treatment with onhomicosis pharmacy medicines
Treatment of nail fungus exists in the form of taking medication inside (tablets, capsules) and local exposure (ointments, baths, compresses).For high quality treatment, a comprehensive method is used: a combination of tablets and external tools of the affected areas.Particularly careful and comprehensive treatment requires a neglected nail fungus.
Treatment can last up to 1 year and include, among other things, a general strengthening therapy: a balanced diet, vitamins, a good break and a dream to increase body resistance.
Mushroom preparations for oral administration (oral)
The form of treatment with tablets and suspensions is appropriate: you do not need to dig with baths, wear dresses with a compress on your fingers.
Attention: All antimic tablets kill not only a parasites but also a useful microflora.Tablets can provoke allergies, cause a deterioration of a chronic illness.Therefore, it is impossible to use it yourself.
Laser therapy
The procedure is performed in a hospital with a neglected form of the disease.It is usually combined with surgical removal of the affected thick part of the nail.Plus this method is the ability to quickly cure onycomycosis.The disadvantage can be called a significant cost of the procedure.
Funds of external use to fight fungi
The pharmaceutical industry produces ointments, spraying, tinctures for foot and nail processing.
The composition includes the antimicotic of an allamic group or azol drug.Some of them have a wide range of action - successfully fight with different forms of fungi and bacteria.Others can only affect a certain group of microorganisms, but have a strong fungal effect (fungi - mushrooms, caedo - kill), unlike a less radical fungistic effect - the slowdown and reproduction of pathogenic fungi.
Ointments are applied 1 to 3 times daily on the affected nail plates and adjacent fabrics.During the evening application (before bedtime), the treated area is wrapped in a film and wear socks to increase the duration of exposure, to increase the effect.
Sprayers and liquid medicines are more unlikely: after applying them, you do not need to seduce your feet or sit for 40 minutes.With stained legs.After drying them (after a few minutes), a person can move without an unpleasant sensation of alkalis fingers.Sometimes in notes on liquid medication, it is recommended to glue the surface of the nail with a waterproof or bandage after treating your feet.
It is unreasonable to treat the fungus itself: only the doctor will be able to choose a drug that is optimally suitable for a particular patient.Treating an advanced form, simultaneous infections, a fungus of more than one species (dermatophytes often "help" the fungi in the form of yeast and moldy).All of these nuances affect the choice of dose shape (tablets, ointments, tinctures), doses, duration of treatment.
Treatment of nail and leg fungi is long (sometimes up to 1 year), especially with extensive lesions and advanced forms of the disease.Mushroom Mikel can penetrate deep into the fabric, making his work black for years.It was also found in the periosteum, which shows the seriousness of this disease, the need to carefully reconcile with the entire complex of the prescribed procedures.
Before -preparation of the legs
Before applying prenatures - this applies to all antifungal external use agents - the feet grow in water with the addition of baking soda and salt, completely washed with soap (preferably tar).Plotted nail particles are removed using manicure, tweezers, files.After that, the legs are dried with a towel, the affected nails are wiped, the interactive area with hydrogen peroxide.
Upon completion of the work, the manicure group is treated with alcohol or any pattern so that they do not become infected by their tools.
Home recipes for the treatment of mycosis
Official medicine does not deny home methods to fight fungi.But doctors recommend using home methods as auxiliary products or for treatment at the initial stage of infection.However, popular rumors claim that with proper frequency and perseverance, even a neglected form of the disease can be cured at home.
They treat nail fungus with a different medicine or alternative recipes, depending on individual conditions and abilities.So, for example, at night you can make a compression from an oil with wrapping a foot film, and in the morning, wipe the nails with alcohol solution before going to work.The weapon to fight the fungus is available in every home, preparing families is not difficult:
- With iodine treatment: all nails are lubricated with a solution 2 - 3 times daily.The affected nails are wiped twice in a procedure.With iodine, you can cure the initial form of onycomycosis.
- Garlic recipe: Chopped garlic insists on alcohol obtained from solvents at least 2 times a day.For treatment, you can use a garlic, no alcohol.Breeped squeezed garlic juice lubricate nail plates at night.
- Propolis treatment: Alcohol tincture of propolis treats the legs similarly to a garlic recipe.
- Vineyard recipe: in 9 % vinegar, wet a cotton pad, glue it to the nail, adjusting it with adhesive plaster.Do the night for 2 to 3 weeks.Everyday 7 days to take a break for 3 days.
- Tea mushroom: to light a piece of mushrooms on the nail or adjust it with a sticky plaster at night.The mushroom can be replaced with a slice of lemon.
- Soda nutrition: After evaporation of the feet, a mixture of soda and small salt (in equal proportions) is applied to the damp legs, rubbed with energetic movement, paying special attention to the interdigber nails and area.Once you have kept the "cleaning" for 5 - 8 minutes, wash with a cleaner warm decoction.Squeezing soda nails with compressors made of hydrogen peroxide goes well.
- Extreme form of therapy: whitening "Belicality" is applied to the nails 2 times a day.The chlorine involved in the solution is a universal killer of all microorganisms, and the fungus is no exception.
- Complex recipe: The washed egg is absorbed in 9 % vinegar until the shell is completely wasted.After that, add 20 g of oil, mix completely (the egg can be poured).The resulting linime is stored in the refrigerator, lubricating the feet 1-2 times a day for 3 weeks.
Whatever the treatment is resolved, you should not discard the procedures after the first disappearance of symptoms.The form of onycomycosis restitution occurs in 10% - 20% of people.It is better to wait for a complete renovation of the nail, if necessary, switching from aggressive to mild ones.
If there is no time to independently engage in treatment, you should pay attention to the fastest way to treat a laser.
To exclude relapses and re -infection with a fungus of the foot and nails, the shoes are treated with antimycosis or undergoing home disinfection: wiped with a solution of vinegar, soda, washed with tar soap.Ocksatrapes of the patient with onycomycosis are permissible not only to wash with the addition of chlorine -containing agents, but also to iron with a hot iron.
To prevent onichomycosis infection, after any visit to unsafe places (beaches, pools, public baths), use popular or medical wiping (ointments) means for prevention.