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Effective treatment and prevent nail fungus - a healthy lifestyle

Mycosis is a dangerous disease that takes months and in some cases.Anyone can become infected with them, therefore the regular prevention of nail fungus is important for everyone.

It is important to monitor particularly careful preventive measures for those who have previously suffered from this disease who visit public pools, saunas, souls, are walking barefoot on the beach.

General Recommendations to prevent fungi

The prevention against the fungi is conditionally divided into primary and secondary.The former provides compliance with the rules for reducing the risk of diseases of people who have not previously been ill with onychomycosis.The second is aimed at preventing a re -infection after a person is cured of nail fungus.

Rules that allow you to protect yourself from nail fungus:

  • Strictly follow the rules of personal hygiene: legs as well as arms, it is advisable to wash with antibacterial soap several times a day;
  • Always use individual hygiene products, more special towels, pumice stone, towel;
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  • In public places (saunas, souls, beaches), wear slippers, preferably with a closed finger;
  • Have individual home slippers, do not wear shoes offered by owners, especially on the bare leg;
  • Constantly monitor the condition of the skin and nails of the fingers, legs, do not allow the formation of cracks, wounds, abrasions when they appear, pass through the required course of treatment;
  • Trust the pedicure and manicure, reliable masters who can ensure that all the tools are subjected to proper disinfection or go to the procedure with your own tools;
  • If you enlarge your nails, make sure that the master must perform antifungal disinfection;
  • disinfect your manicure and pedicure tools, especially if other family members use them;
  • Before you try shoes at the store, be sure to wear your clean socks;
  • Take care of the shoes regularly, make sure it is dry, periodically treat it with antifungal agents;
  • Give preference to natural materials shoes, the foot is not fitted in them;
  • Fighting excessive sweating of the legs as well as with hands;
  • After water procedures, always wipe your hands and feet thoroughly, because in a humid environment the fungus develops rapidly;
  • If one of the family suffers from onychomycosis, it is important to disinfect all carpets, floors, to treat the bathroom and other places where he walks barefoot.

Pharmaceuticals to prevent nail fungus

When the likelihood of becoming infected with a nail fungus is very high or it is necessary to prevent onychomycosis again, pharmacy drugs will help.They must have antifungal properties.

It is important to apply them after the pool, sauna, soul in the gym, go to the beach, visit other public places where the risk of fungus infection increases.

Their use is also justified when the first signs of the development of the disease appear: a change in nail color, uncomfortable sensations such as itching, redness.

Folk remedies

There are many folk recipes that help to protect nails from onychomycosis.They provide the use of plants and agents with antifungal properties: peroxide, vinegar, soda, propolis, garlic, onions, iodine, grass.

Think of folk recipes effective from fungi:

  1. To impregnate a cotton pad with hydrogen peroxide and attach it to the nails for 10 minutes.Such a lotion will act more effectively if you wrap your fingers with a baking movie.This procedure should be performed if there is a high risk of mycosis infection.Otherwise, it is enough to wipe the nail plaques with hydrogen peroxide.
  2. Cut the cloves of garlic, wet in salt to release the juice.Gently wipe all your nails.After 10-15 minutes, they can be washed.
  3. The nails should be periodically wiped with ammonia.In order to perform the procedure, it must be diluted in equal parts of the water.
  4. Boric acid baths disinfect the nails well as well as the skin of the feet and arms.
  5. Dilute the soda with water to the condition of the kalf.Place the resulting composition on the nail plates for 10 minutes.Then rinse with warm water.
  6. Wipe your nails with freshly squeezed onion juice.
  7. Wipe your nails with alcohol.
  8. A very effective preventative tool is tea tree oil.It is enough to apply it to the nails with a cotton swab to avoid mycosis infection.
  9. To prevent the fungus from appearing on the nails of the hands, periodically make baths made of strong coffee.
  10. Dilute the vinegar, you can take plain or apple, in a proportion of 1 to 8 with water.Wipe nail plates with this solution.

Folk recipes can restore the beauty of nails.

It is advisable to prepare nails before performing preventive procedures.Soda baths are held for this.To prepare them, it is enough to dilute 1 tablespoon of baking soda in 1 liter of warm water.20 minutes for nails as well as for skin steam.

You can reduce the likelihood of nail fungus to a minimum.To do this, it is sufficient to regularly follow preventive recommendations and periodically apply a pharmacy or folk remedies.However, even the most in -depth preventative measures do not always allow them to protect themselves from the disease.

When the first signs appear that probably show an onychomycosis infection, contact a dermatologist or mycologist.Self -measurement is unacceptable.

Foot Fungus Prevention: Medical Approach and Folk Recipes, Rules for Hygiene and Preventive Measures

Onychomycosis is not found as an independent disease.As a ruleThe fungal infection manifests itself against the background of other systemic and chronic diseases of the bodythat do not allow you to quickly get rid of the problem.

Obstacles to quick and effective treatment:

  • Disturbed peripheral blood circulationIt affects the speed of metabolic processes in the limbs.
  • Slow metabolismIt interferes with the rapid growth of nails and the intake of nutrients, oxygen, and medicines.
  • Functional malfunctions in the operation of the endocrine system, especially diabetes.Glucose, the assimilation of which is disturbed by the bodies of a person later, serves as a favorable nutrient environment for the life of mushrooms.
  • Reduced body resistanceIt disrupts the resistance of immunity, leads to an increase in the risk of infectious diseases, their transition to chronic forms.
  • Changes in the spine in the cervical region and lumbar crossUnaccompanied blood circulation.
  • ConnectedNervous systemDisruption of the metabolic process.
  • PolyneuropathyBoth complications of diabetes and independent contribute to increased hyperkeratosis, dryness and deformity of the legs.This increases the risk of fungal infection.
  • ConnectedMental disorders and conditions of chronic stressDepression affects the health of all bodily systems.
  • The duration of the illness of the diseaseIt implies a long duration of treatment.
  • Increased riskNail injury, increased sweatingThe skin of the feet.

First of all - diagnostics

Diagnosis of detecting the causative agent of fungal infectionDetermines the selection of effective treatmentSHow to properly cure onychomycosis will definitely tell a doctor (which doctor to go).

The most common pathogens for infection:

  • Dermatophytes (tr. Rubrum, tr. Mentagrophytes);
  • Yeast -similar mushrooms of the genus Candida (S. Albicans);
  • Flam mushrooms.

Determination of fungal infection occurs in four stages:

  • Clinical assessment of nail conditionthrough external visible changes;
  • The direction to the laboratoryhaircut of the nail, scraping from the nail and under the nails;
  • Microscopic examinationby sowing materials on food environments;
  • IdentificationGrowed crop or sowing in a selective environment in some cases to determine exactly the type of mushrooms.

Only after laboratory diagnostics and evaluation by a specialist, the results obtained can be made an accurate diagnosis and prescribe the most effective method of treatment.

There are often cases of mixed infection among the elderly.

The spectrum of action and indications for the use of systemic therapy based on active substances

Medication approach

Approaches to the treatment of onychomycosis with medication:

  1. Systemic therapy.
  2. Local therapy.
  3. Combined.

Rules for effective drug treatment:

  1. Do not miss any use or administration of the medicine.
  2. Follow the acceptance by applying the funds at about the same time of the day.

Passing even one day disrupts therapeutic fungicidal concentrations in the body.

The table will help you choose the dose form of therapy based on the characteristics of your factors

Systemic therapy

The most reliable medicine in the fight against fungi allows you to focus the development of a fungal infection through the blood.The essence isThe accumulated property of antifungal drugs in the desired concentration in all areas of the nails and percentage tissuesS

Systemic therapy makes sense in similar clinical manifestations:

  • In the late stages of the development of fungi, when there is complete damage to the nail or more than half is infected;
  • Acute changes in the appearance of the nails: hyperkeratosis, onycholysis;
  • Disease of more than 2-3 nails;
  • Spread of infection on the skin, hairy areas of the body;
  • If local therapy is unauthorized.

Contraindications to systemic therapy:

  • Pregnancy, lactation;
  • Liver and kidney disorders;
  • Individual drug allergies.

New generation antifungal drugs significantly give a toxic load on the body, which is especially important for elderly patients.

Lacquers

Local therapy with varnishes is performed:

  • With a damage of 1-2 nails;
  • With damage to less than half of the nail;
  • With opposite systemic therapy;
  • In combination with systemic therapy;
  • In the initial stages of onychomycosis.

The benefits of local varnish therapy:

  1. Dosage form of lacquerAllows an antifungal substance to penetrate into the nailsS
  2. The lacquer movie createsA protective barrier from evaporation of an antifungal substance and an obstacle to infectionS

Antifungal lacquer is applied in the usual way as cosmetic.

Laser therapy of the fungus

The essence of the procedure is the effects of fungi, fungal disputes and mycelium, literally laser "heating" and the destruction of an infection that stimulates microcirculation.

The procedure is performed in an office equipped with a laser device.

Advantages and benefits of therapy:

  • Effective, complex, fungicidal effect on the infection;
  • Safe and painless procedure, lack of toxic effect;
  • Quick result (some may be sufficient for about 3 sessions);
  • There is no discomfort at the end of the procedure.

Despite the lack of side effects of laser therapy, consultation is needed early as there are contraindications.

Hardware pedicure

Medical pedicure, which is performed by medical specialists using a special apparatus.This does not mean contact with water and steam to avoid the development of infection.

The procedure is performed by a specially trained doctor.

Advantages of Medical Pedicure:

  • Eliminates the affected part of the nail without effort on the patient's side;
  • Complete care for the foot and nails;
  • Heals an existing infection, prevents new problems;
  • Suitable for almost all patients;
  • It is combined with the complex treatment of the sponge.

Correction therapy

A huge role in the rapid recovery without subsequent reinfection is played by adjusting the therapy, which consists in the additional prescription of medicines and procedures,contribution to general healingSAs a rule, such measures are especially useful in the presence of systemic diseases that cause a fungal infection.

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Correction therapy includes:

  1. Drugs that improve blood circulationSHelp accelerate the growth of a healthy nail.
  2. Vitamins A and ESThey contribute to the growth of strong, healthy, even nails.
  3. A group of vitamins withSThey are involved in the formation of keratin, the main nail building material (B1), affecting important processes of metabolism.
  4. Vitamin complexes to improve nail and tissue tropy near the nail, to strengthen immunity.
  5. Physiotherapy-UHF-therapy, amplipul therapy, diatrima in the cervical-throat department and lumbar cross (about 7-10 days in a row).The procedure of the aboveground laser irradiation of the blood in the area of the peripheral vessels.They are prescribed to improve blood properties, general blood circulation and lymphatic flow, for better delivery of drugs, which has a beneficial effect on growing a healthy nail.
  6. HepatoprotectorsSReduce the negative effects of antifungal drugs on the liver (especially ketoconazole).

Radical measure - Removal of nails

  1. Complete nail removal is indicated by increased hyperkeratosis, which complicates the intake of medicines to the nail.
  2. I recommend that impressive people refrain from watching!Surgery to remove the nail infected with a sponge:
  3. Applied:
  • In severe advanced forms of fungi when you need to get rid of the source of a fungal infection;
  • When other methods are ineffective.

Three methods of radical nail removal:

  1. ChemicalSAllows you to painlessly remove the affected area with the help of softening compounds that are fixed on the nail with plasters.
  2. SurgicalSPainful anesthesia surgery when the infected nail is literally detached from the nails using a surgical instrument.In case of extreme need, they resort to getting rid of the nail that causes frequent recurrences of infection.
  3. MatrixctomySRadical surgery than surgical.The nail matrix is damaged - the area from which the nail body is formed, which does not allow it to grow with a new nail.This is an exceptional measure that completely eliminates fungal infection in chronic onychomycosis.