Fungal diseases, regardless of location, are contagious. Most often, a person has mycosis of the feet and nails. The disease of onychomycosis (fungus on the nails) begins after contact with objects that the sick person used. The fungus prefers to settle in humid places with high temperature, so special care must be taken in baths, in showers in gyms, in pools.
Symptoms of the disease
Nail fungus (mycosis) is difficult not to notice, because with a disease:
- the natural color of the nails changes;
- there is a stratification of the nail plate;
- the nails crumble;
- the skin itches around the affected nail;
- the lesion becomes painful.
The treatment should not be delayed, since over time the nail becomes dense and stiff, it is difficult for drugs to penetrate to the affected area. Because of this, the effectiveness of therapy is sharply reduced, even when using the most modern drugs. Mycosis of the nails is most often observed in old age or in people with weakened immunity, in children they are extremely rare. Some chronic diseases can also become risk factors: disturbances in the digestive tract, diabetes, adrenal and thyroid diseases, metabolic disturbances.
Mycosis of nails: drug treatment methods
Fungal infection is very persistent and insidious, when processing shoes with a solution (1%)
formalin pathogen dies only after a third of an hour. Even if the disease is not visually diagnosed, the infection cannot be considered defeated. It can occur again with a decrease in immunity or other favorable conditions due to the preservation of an invisible focus. Therefore, nail fungal infections must be treated comprehensively and in no case do not interrupt the prescribed course in order to avoid further relapses. Effective treatments have been developed. Modern drugs not only block the progression of mycosis, but also accumulate and remain in the nail plates for a rather long time. For example, pulse therapy cures mycosis of the nails in a non-launched form in just a couple of months, in more complex cases, the treatment lasts twice as long. In conjunction with local exposure to the foci of infection, it is imperative that tablets of antifungal drugs are taken.
Folk remedies
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A specialist will say that serious treatment of mycosis should be carried out with traditional medicine. Developed the latest drugs are several times more effective than folk remedies. But a combination of them can help significantly reduce the healing time. All folk remedies are for external use. The most effective in its bactericidal action is
birch tar. Rub it very carefully into the nail plate twice a day. Just make sure that it does not get on the skin around the nail, since irritation can begin. It is necessary to tune in to a rather lengthy treatment, you cannot skip the daily treatment.