What are the symptoms of onychomycosis?
Clinically, the specific symptoms of early onychomycosis are as follows:
1, onychomycosis starts at the end or both sides of the toenail and then spreads to the root.
2. Then the tip and periphery of the toenail turn white, the surface layer at the front end of the toenail is separated from the bottom layer, the middle layer is thicker and thicker, and the nail body is as brittle as powder.
3, and then gradually deformed, turning yellow and brown, dull.
4. Finally, the whole toenail was eroded, leaving muscles and sticking to it. In severe cases, toenails may even fall off.
How is onychomycosis formed?
1, personal reasons:
Is directly related to personal hygiene habits. For example, frequenting public swimming pools and bathrooms with poor sanitary conditions, using public slippers, wearing airtight shoes and socks for a long time, wearing high heels for women for a long time, wearing pointed leather shoes for men, and nail damage and infection caused by manicure;
2. Secondly, environmental reasons:
High temperature and humidity is also one of the reasons for multiple onychomycosis. Therefore, patients in summer and rainy season are more and heavier than those in winter and dry season. Some drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant fungi can still cause diseases in cold and dry seasons, which are more common in northern China.
In addition, people who bathe too often and like to tickle are more likely to suffer from onychomycosis. This is because bathing too much damages the epidermal protective layer; Frequent scratching not only causes scratches, but also easily implants dander with fungi into the affected area or spreads to other places, which becomes the inducement of onychomycosis. Some chronic diseases, such as malnutrition, hyperthyroidism and tinea of diabetic patients, are common and their symptoms are biased. Some severe patients, such as AIDS, advanced cancer, etc., not only have a high incidence of fungal ringworm, but also tinea fungi are widely distributed, with strange manifestations, very stubborn and difficult to cure.
How to treat onychomycosis?
It is necessary to go to the hospital for fungal smear test and further diagnosis to confirm whether it is onychomycosis, because the pathogen of onychomycosis is fungi, because onychomycosis is caused by fungi invading nails, and because nails are too thick and drugs are not easy to absorb, it is best to improve with oral drugs, so drugs for superficial and deep fungi of the skin need to be used. Medical name onychomycosis is related to fungal infection because fungi invade nails. Causes nails to become yellow, thick, irregular desquamation and deformation. If this disease is not treated in time, it may lead to irreversible deformation of nails in the later stage, because this disease will lead to infection. Once diagnosed, we should pay attention to hygiene, cut off the source of infection, and strictly disinfect used items, because a little carelessness may lead to infection. It is necessary to combine traditional Chinese and western medicine, cooperate with nail scraping and blocking method, use traditional Chinese medicines such as Sophora flavescens, Fructus Cnidii, Stemonae, Cortex Dictamni and so on, and cooperate with ricopovidone iodine liniment to wipe the local continuous treatment, which can be better improved. Generally, it takes about half a year.
What should I pay attention to for onychomycosis?
Because small size shoes are airtight, the stress on the forefoot increases and the five toes squeeze each other, which is easy to cause the nail bed to peel off from the toe meat. When the health of toenails is affected, the probability of onychomycosis infection will greatly increase. Therefore, if there is no special need in work or life, please relax your feet in time to reduce the probability of getting sick.
Taking some drugs leads to the decline of immune function, and the probability of onychomycosis can increase. Improper manicure and too many chemicals will make nails fragile, and then mold will wait for an opportunity to cause onychomycosis. Often applying nail polish and washing nails may lead to nail deformation and degradation, nail bed inflammation and onychomycosis. In the process of manicure, too much nail cutting and nail grinding may cause skin and soft tissue damage. If the tools used are not disinfected, it is easy to cause infection of fungi, molds and other germs.
Chefs, laundrymen and housewives are prone to onychomycosis. Chefs, laundrymen and housewives often cause paronychia due to long-term immersion of nails, and improper treatment will cause onychomycosis.