Fungal diseases, regardless of location, are contagious. Most often, a person has mycosis of the feet and nails. The disease onychomycosis (nail fungus) begins after contact with objects used by a sick person. The fungus prefers to settle in humid places with elevated temperatures, so special care must be taken in baths, shower gyms, and pools.
Symptoms of disease
Nail fungus (mycosis) is hard to miss, because when sick:
- changing the natural color of nails;
- there is a delamination of the nail plate;
- nails crumble;
- Itchy skin around the affected nail;
- the site of the lesion becomes painful.
Treatment should not be delayed, because over time the nail becomes dense and hard, 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. Mycoses of the nails are most often observed in the elderly or in people with a weakened immune system, in children they are extremely rare. Some chronic diseases can also become risk factors: disorders in the gastrointestinal tract, diabetes, diseases of the adrenal and thyroid glands, and metabolic disorders.
Mycoses of the nails: medicinal methods of treatment
Fungal infection is very persistent and insidious, when shoes are treated with a solution (1%)
formalin pathogen dies only after a third of an hour. Even if the disease is no longer visually diagnosed, it cannot be considered that the infection has been defeated. It can occur again with a decrease in immunity or other favorable conditions due to the preservation of an invisible focus. Therefore, nail mycoses should be treated comprehensively and in no case should the prescribed course be interrupted in order to avoid further relapses. Currently, effective methods of treatment have been developed. Modern drugs not only block the progression of mycosis, but also accumulate and remain in the nail plates for quite a long time. For example, pulse therapy cures nail mycosis in an undeveloped form in just a couple of months, in more complex cases, the treatment lasts twice as long. In combination with a local effect on the focus of infection, it is imperative to take tableted antifungal drugs.
Folk remedies
Any
th specialist will say that serious treatment of mycosis should be carried outtraditional medicine preparations. The latest drugs developed are several times more effective than folk remedies. But a combination of them can help to significantly reduce the healing time. All folk remedies are for external use. Birch tar is considered the most effective in its bactericidal action. It is necessary to rub it very gently into the nail plate twice a day. You just need to make sure that it does not get on the skin around the nail, as irritation may begin. You need to tune in for a rather long treatment, you can’t skip the daily treatment.
