Heel fungus is a very common problem. This disease is more common among those that occur on the skin of the heels. At the same time, not all people understand how dangerous this disease can be. As soon as the first signs of a fungus appear, you need to urgently seek help from specialists.
Treatment for this disease should be started immediately. Experts advise to pay attention to the Lamisil ointment, the instructions for use of which note that the ointment quickly eliminates the problem of mycosis. This disease spreads very quickly, and its coverage area can be very large. First of all, you need to see a doctor in order for him to make an accurate diagnosis and prescribe the right treatment.
Reason for distribution
There can be many reasons why a fungus attacks your skin. In treatment, they are of little importance. Wherever you get infected and in what way, treatment methodswill be the same. But for further prevention of the disease and in order to avoid a possible recurrence of the disease, it is necessary to know exactly how you were infected. Under clarified circumstances, it is necessary to draw conclusions and try to regularly carry out prevention. The main causes of heel fungus infection are:
- Visit public places: swimming pools, saunas, public baths.
- The use of personal hygiene items, manicure and pedicure tools that have not gone through proper processing. Such infection can occur when visiting a beauty salon.
- Using an old heel grater.
- Trying someone else's shoes. This situation is very common in stores. You should not even try on new shoes without footprints or socks. A bare foot can get bacteria that a person trying on shoes before you has.
- Prolonged wearing of shoes made of artificial materials such as rubber. Shoes that do not breathe can develop fungal growths.
- Lack of personal hygiene, washing and washing hands. Such procedures in the modern world are recommended to be carried out at least 3-5 times a day.
- Use other people's towels and other items that come into contact with your skin.
- Infection during surgery. In this case, there is no way to influence the situation, only if you carefully choose the clinic where the procedures will be performed. But even this will not give a complete guarantee of security.
- Physiological characteristics of a particular person. Rarely, but it happens that this diseasedetermined at the genetic level. In this case, it is difficult to deal with it, but constant prevention can be carried out.
- Professional traits that make you communicate too closely with each other. Weakened immunity that cannot fight even the smallest dose of infection.
- Fungus causes cracked heels, which are not always thoroughly rinsed, and pathogenic microflora develops in them.
- Other diseases that provoke the appearance of the fungus.
- Profuse sweating, the skin does not have time to cope with sweat dirt, and it penetrates inside.
- Obesity.
The fungus can also be allergic. An allergic reaction can develop to certain cosmetics or medicines that contain substances intolerable to a particular person.
Symptomatics
The first signs by which heel fungus can be identified are obvious external manifestations. These include:
- Skin discoloration in patches, ranging from slight redness to bright red patches.
- The formation of dense areas on a flat surface of the skin. These are not swellings, bumps, but seals.
- Cracked parts of the skin, at first glance, fungal cracks look like dry thin cuts. At a later stage of the disease, quite deep furrows in the skin can be found.
- Appearance of swelling of part or all of the foot.
- Formation of small but inflamedsores.
- The appearance of blisters with liquid inside.
- Partial peeling of the skin can also be an indicator of a developing fungal disease.
- Itching and acute burning on the reddened area of the skin.
- A stale smell that comes from the feet, no matter what one's shoes are in.
Each individual symptom does not necessarily indicate the presence of a fungal disease, but the combination of several should alert, and you should immediately consult a doctor. The fungus only seems to be a harmless disease. Its spread has a very high speed, after a short time the disease area can become very extensive, and it will be extremely difficult to fight the disease.
When the first symptoms are detected, it is urgent to start treatment. The doctor will definitely prescribe one of the treatment options, in no case should it be ignored. It is also worth noting that self-treatment is contraindicated. The forms and degree of the disease can be different for each person, so experts strongly recommend using drugs only after consulting a specialist.
Treatment methods
Today there are many different treatments that help fight fungal diseases. Not everyone is suitable for any case, before starting treatment, it is necessary to carry out diagnostics, it is necessary to identify the type of pathogen. It is necessary to carry out diagnostics very quickly, since the disease from the initial stage very quickly passes into the last one. In the instructions for use"Lamisil" (ointment from the fungus on the heels and legs) indicated that the course of treatment is long, but effective.
Skin softening
The first step in treatment will be the use of drugs that will help soften the skin of the heels and relieve irritation. In the acute period, any treatment will be in vain. Always first of all, the inflammatory process is removed, and only then therapy begins. Most often, at the first stages, solutions are used, with the help of which baths and lotions are made, they best soften the affected areas of soft skin. The time for primary treatment is different, it all depends on the severity of the disease and the individual characteristics of the patient.
Removing scales
After the acute period is over, there are scales that exfoliate from the underlying skin. They are carefully removed with special brushes or a heel grater. It is highly undesirable to carry out the procedure for removing infected skin with your hands. In this case, the infection can spread to other parts of the body. After the exfoliated parts of the skin are removed, the affected area must be treated with antiseptics. In this case, patients are provided with a wide range of possible forms of drugs, you can use antiseptic solutions, gels or creams. It all depends on how sensitive your skin is to a particular consistency.
Antifungal
After thorough cleaning, antifungal drugs are applied, at this stage beginstherapy. Here you can also choose the option of preparations you like: gels, ointments, creams. In this case, the doctor will definitely recommend the drug that is most effective for you. Monitoring your body throughout the course of treatment will help determine the degree of effectiveness. At the final stage, a course of drugs will be prescribed, which must be taken for preventive purposes, so that the body can resist infections well in the future.
Recommendations
Each of the stages of drug treatment of heel fungus is very important, a complete cure is possible if each stage is followed, otherwise the disease may recur in a more severe form. None of them can be neglected. In addition, it is important to remember that you can not interrupt the course of treatment and quit it before finishing. This attitude towards treatment can lead to the fact that the disease will spread to other parts of the body, and it will be very difficult to cope with it.
And once again I would like to draw your attention to the fact that for the effective treatment of fungus on the heels, it is necessary that all stages of the disease be controlled by a physician. In the course of treatment, some nuances may arise that will need to be corrected, drugs replaced or other changes made.
Herbal Ingredients
Many doctors today prescribe compresses from plant, natural substances. It would seem that they cannot be effective, and not all folk recipes give a 100% result. But it is those that are used under the supervision of a doctor that are quite effective.
Onion baths
The fact is that onions and garlic are excellent antiseptics and fight infection well. Such baths should be used after the acute period has ended. It is best to carry out such a procedure at night, as a calming and relaxing effect is manifested. For cooking, you need to twist through a meat grinder or grate 5-6 onions and steam them in boiling water. After the water has cooled to a warm state, you can make baths. It is also effective to make compresses from the onion mixture. S alt baths for heels can also be carried out. They are made according to the same principle, only for 3 liters of water you need to take two tablespoons of s alt.
Compresses
Alcohol compresses are very popular in the fight against various types of infection, including foot fungus. Alcohol compresses are effective at all stages of treatment, they relieve inflammation and serve as an antiseptic. By the way, alcohol is also used for preventive purposes. If you wipe your legs with an alcohol solution at night every day before applying care creams, you will notice that the infection will not develop at all. As you know, with the help of alcohol you can maintain hygiene very well, it disinfects and prevents the development of inflammatory processes.
Another stronger remedy is an infusion of garlic with alcohol, this remedy is also rubbed on the affected areas or used as a compress.
Rosehip
Rosehip decoction is also often used for treatmentfungus. The fruits are brewed and infused for 12 hours, after which they are applied to the affected areas several times a day. This tool has not a quick, but effective result. It is also useful for preventive purposes.
In any case, all folk methods can only be used as an addition to the main therapy, since all the beneficial properties of onions, garlic for alcohol or rose hips are not enough to get rid of a serious infection. Before using any of the folk remedies, you should definitely get the advice of your doctor.
