Almost every third Person nail fungus occurs on the feet. The disease bears the name of onychomycosis and is causing the stratification, and crumbling of the nail plate. Onihomikozy can occur at any age, and require a timely and competent treatment under expert guidance.
What is onychomycosis?
Onychomycosis - a fungal infection of the nail plate. The disease can dermatophytes by fungi or microsporia. Mushrooms have a negative impact on the large construction site on the basis of the nail Keratin and after, and after eating, to cause deformation behavior changes.
There are the following forms of onychomycosis:
- Normotroficheskie. You can change the color of the nail, the formation of stripes and spots.
- Hypertrophic. Not only change color, but also easy to Deformation. The most common finger nail on the edges deformed.
- Onicholocheskiy. The nail is destroyed, stunted, and alienated.
The fungal infection can lead to deformations of the nail at the free edge, laterally and in the area of the rear roller. How the disease process affects the entire nail plate.
Causes
The fungus on the nails of the feet is not only due to the lower immunity. About 70% of the people infected by sick people, and most of them is a relative. The smallest of skin cells with a stop fall on household items, and in contact with the healthy substances of the nails or of the skin, to infect a healthy Person.
The infection occurs most commonly through:
- Washcloth.
- Sponge.
- Towels.
- The Mats.
- Shoes.
- Manicure Accessories.
During a visit to the beach, the Sauna and the steam bath without a slipper is a high risk of infection by a fungus of the legs. At elevated humidity and temperature, the infection is much more common.
Especially careful you must be in public places where people go barefoot. Fungi resistant to low and high temperatures, and in the beach-Sand, they retain their vitality for months.
The smallest wound and abrasion on the foot when in contact with infected objects can be the cause of onychomycosis. Not worth it, to continue wearing the shoes for other people, even if the external manifestations of the fungus in them not found. You can't manifest a carrier of pathogenic micro-flora, and in the case of strong immunity to the disease.
Signs
The initial stage of the fungus on the legs due to the dryness and flaking. In this time, can the person do not notice visual changes to the nail plate, but to torture him itching and burning in the area of the Finger. To sweat gradually, in rare cases, blisters and corns. Depending on the introduction of the fungus in the nails of their color begins to change, you become fragile and brittle.
Nail under the microscope and contains a mixture of empty. The legs are starting to be unpleasant to smell, and the symptoms intensified.
In severe cases, the body temperature rises and there is severe pain, which is not a normal move. How does nail fungus on the feet, and what changes are characteristic for him, largely depends on the type and strength of the human immunity.
Fungi dermatophytes manifest yellow longitudinal stripes, yeast - cause delamination of the nail plate, and yellowing. Mold – the cause of superficial lesions of the nail plate, which can be yellow, brown, blue, or green.
Description of the disease in different species of fungi differently, but common symptoms.
These include:
- You can change the color of the nail plate.
- Itching and burning of the skin of the toes.
- Stripes and spots under the nails.
- Crumbling and destruction of the nail at the sides.
- Redness of the skin around the nails.
- Hyperkeratosis (thickening of the nail).
The disease begins with the infection of the nail of the little finger or the thumb on the legs, then the infection with all the plates. Cornification of the nail occurs, it thickens and crumbles. Fungal infections normally infect people, adults and the elderly, in children, and they are extremely rarely observed.
The treatment deals with skin doctor or mycologist. For an accurate diagnosis is not sufficient visual inspection and requires the conduct of laboratory studies. For this small part of the nail to send to the microscopic examination. In the case of the detection of the fungus of its kind to put up with the seeding on the soil.
In spite of the fact that most of the diseases of the nail plate in adults – a fungus, there are many diseases with similar symptoms. The defeat of the nail by a fungus can cause similar symptoms but requires different treatment. This felon, or acute purulent inflammation of the fingers, and requires surgical treatment.
As a nail fungus treatment?
You should not hope that the fungus itself. The longer a Person suffers from this disease, the more difficult the treatment is.
The duration of treatment and the choice of drugs is dependent on:
- The stage of the disease.
- The degree of damage to the nail.
- The clinical Form of the disease.
The initial stage of nail fungus and the foot require the application of local medicines, which may be in the Form of:
- Solutions.
- Ointments of mildew.
- Creams.
- Coatings.
Apply to medicines for external use, preferably after keratolytic processing of the nail plate.
Before each treatment, the application of the medication must:
- Make Soap-Soda Foot Bath. In a small pan add a tablespoon of baking powder, and salt and 50 G of soap. Keep your feet in the solution for about 15 minutes.
- Treat the damaged nail. With a special nail the top layer of the nail file to gnaw at, so that the drug soaked better received.
- Apply UVA. The drug is on the dry, clean nails on the feet and the skin around them.
In the case of use of solutions, ointments and creams, the drug causes 2-3 times daily, paints – 2 times per week. The course of treatment determines the physician depending on the existing damage.
If the nail plate is completely beaten and the local products have no positive effect, it is recommended that you in combination with systemic antifungal agents.
The drugs have a large list and contraindications to by the attending doctor prescribed to be. Most of them are forbidden during pregnancy and lactation, in childhood and in chronic diseases of the liver, and the kidneys.
In severe cases of nail fungus, you may need the removal of the nail plate. The process can be both surgical, as well as with the help of keratolytic containing salicylic acid and urea
Removal of the affected nail keratolytic Patch differs by its convenience. After the feet to dampen the patch gently applied to the affected nail plate, and with adhesive tape sealed. After a few days of the patch removed, sawing the affected areas of the plate, wearing one of the antifungal drugs. The process several times.
During treatment, exclude it is important that the risk of a renewed self-infection. For this whole Shoe solution treated with a special disinfectant. Of socks that you wore prior to the start of the treatment, it is better to get rid of. In the future, each month the re-processing of the shoes and the clothes. To abandon this procedure, after a short time the fungus again.
Symptoms and treatment of the fungus individually, and at the first signs of this disease, you must consult a doctor. Only he can get an accurate diagnosis and effective drug. Otherwise, the fungus begins to spread to other nails and completely destroyed.