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Effective treatment and prevention of nail fungus - a healthy lifestyle

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

It is important to observe especially carefully preventive measures to those who previously suffered from this disease, who attend public pools, saunas, souls, walks barefoot on the beach.

General recommendations for the prevention of fungus

The prevention against the fungus is conditionally divided into primary and secondary.The first provides for compliance with the rules to reduce the risk of people's diseases that had not previously been sick with onychomycosis.The second is aimed at preventing 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 hands, it is advisable to wash with antibacterial soap several times a day;
  • Always use individual hygiene products, in particular towels, pumice, washcloth;
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  • In public places (saunas, souls, beaches), wear slippers, preferably with a closed toe;
  • have individual home slippers, do not wear shoes offered by the owners, especially on the bare foot;
  • Constantly monitor the condition of the skin and nails on the fingers of the arms, legs, do not allow the formation of cracks, wounds, abrasions, when they appear, go through the necessary course of treatment;
  • Trust the pedicure and manicure trusted masters who may guarantee that all tools undergo proper disinfection, or go to the procedure with your own tools;
  • If you increase the nails, make sure that the master necessarily perform an antifungal disinfection;
  • disinfect your tools for manicure and pedicure, especially if other family members use them;
  • Before trying on shoes in the store, be sure to put on your clean socks;
  • Regularly care for shoes, make sure that it is dry, periodically treat it with antifungal agents;
  • Give preference to shoes from natural materials, the leg does not steam in them;
  • fight with excessive sweating of the legs, as well as hands;
  • After water procedures, always thoroughly wipe your arms and legs, because in a humid environment the fungus develops rapidly;
  • If someone from the family suffers from onychomycosis, it is important to disinfect all carpets, floors, treat the bath and other places where he went barefoot.

Pharmaceuticals for the prevention of nail fungus

When the probability of getting infected with a fungus of the nail plate is very high or there is a need 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, going to the beach, visiting other public places where the risk of infection with a fungus is increased.

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

Folk remedies

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

Consider folk recipes effective from the fungus:

  1. To impregnate a cotton pad with hydrogen peroxide and attach it to the nails for 10 minutes. Such a lotion will act more efficiently if you wrap your fingers with a baking film.This procedure should be carried out if there is a high risk of infection with mycosis.Otherwise, it is enough to wipe the nail plates with hydrogen peroxide.
  2. Cut the clove of garlic, wet into salt to let the juice.Gently wipe all your nails.After 10-15 minutes they can be washed.
  3. The nails should be periodically wiped with ammonia.To carry out the procedure, it must be diluted in equal parts of water.
  4. Boric acid baths disinfect nails well, as well as the skin of the feet and hands.
  5. Dilute soda with water to the state of gruel.Put the resulting composition on the nail plates for 10 minutes. After that, rinse with warm water.
  6. Wipe the nails with freshly squeezed onion juice.
  7. Wipe the nail plates with alcohol.
  8. A very effective preventive tool is tea tree oil.It is enough to apply it to the nails with a cotton swab to avoid infection with mycosis.
  9. To prevent the occurrence of the fungus on the nails of the hands, periodically make baths made of strong coffee coffee.
  10. Dilute vinegar, you can take ordinary or apple, in a proportion of 1 to 8 with water.Wipe the nail plates with this solution.

Folk recipes can return the beauty of the nails.

Before carrying out preventive procedures, it is advisable to prepare nails.For this, soda baths are held.To cook them, it is enough to dilute 1 tablespoon of soda in 1 liter of warm water.20 minutes enough for the nails, as well as the skin steam.

You can reduce the likelihood of a fungus of nails to a minimum.To do this, it is enough to regularly comply with preventive recommendations and periodically apply pharmacy or folk remedies.However, even the most thorough preventive measures do not always allow to protect themselves from the disease.

When the first signs appear, which possibly indicate infection with onychomycosis, contact a dermatologist or a mycologist.Self -medication is unacceptable.

Prevention of nail fungus on the legs: medical approach and folk recipes, hygiene rules and preventive measures

Onychomycosis does not occur as an independent disease.As a ruleThe fungal infection is manifested against the background of other systemic and chronic diseases of the bodywho do not allow you to quickly get rid of the problem.

Obstacles to rapid and effective treatment:

  • Impaired peripheral blood circulationaffects the rate of metabolic processes in the limbs.
  • Slow metabolismIt interferes with the rapid growth of nails and the intake of nutrients, oxygen, as well as drugs.
  • Functional malfunctions in the work of the endocrine system, especially diabetes.Glucose, the assimilation of which is disturbed with later the bodies of a person, serves as a favorable nutrient medium for the life of mushrooms.
  • Reduced body resistanceViolates 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 the lumbar-crossDisruples blood circulation.
  • RelatedDiseases of the nervous systemViolation of the metabolic process.
  • PolyneuropathyBoth complications of diabetes, and independent, contribute to enhanced hyperkeratosis, dryness and foot deformation.This increases the risk of fungal infection.
  • Relatedmental disorders and chronic stress statesDepressions affect the health of all body systems.
  • The duration of the anamnesis of the diseaseimplies a long duration of treatment.
  • Increased risknail trauma, increased sweatingThe skin of the feet.

First of all - diagnostics

Diagnosis to detect the causative agent of a fungal infectiondefines the selection of effective treatment.How to correctly cure onykhomycosis will definitely say a doctor (which doctor to go).

The most common infection pathogens:

  • Dermatophytes (tr. Rubrum, tr. Mentagrophytes);
  • Yeast -like mushrooms of the genus Candida (S. albicans);
  • Flear mushrooms.

Determination of fungal infection occurs in four stages:

  • Clinical assessment of the condition of the nailsby external visible changes;
  • Direction to the laboratorytrimming the nail, scraping from the nail bed and from under the nail plate;
  • Microscopic examinationby sowing material on nutrient media;
  • Identificationgrown culture or sowing on selective environments in some cases to accurately determine the type of mushroom.

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

Among the elderly people, there are often cases of mixed infection.

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 drugs:

  1. System therapy.
  2. Local therapy.
  3. Combined.

Rules for effective drug treatment:

  1. Do not miss a single use or application of the drug.
  2. Follow the reception, applying funds at about the same time of the day.

Passing even on one day violates therapeutic fungicidal concentrations in the body.

The table will help choose the dosage form of therapy based on the features of your factors

System therapy

The most reliable remedy in the fight against the fungus allows you to achieve the focus of the development of fungal infection through the blood.The essence isthe accumulative property of antifungal drugs in the desired concentration in all areas of the nail and percentage tissues.

System therapy makes sense with such clinical manifestations:

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

Contraindications to system therapy:

  • Pregnancy, lactation;
  • Disorders of the liver and kidneys;
  • Individual drug allergies.

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

Varnishes

Local therapy with varnishes is carried out:

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

The benefits of local therapy with varnishes:

  1. Dosage form of varnishallows an antifungal substance to penetrate the nail bed.
  2. The varnish film createsprotective barrier from evaporation of antifungal substance and obstacle to infection.

Antifungal varnish is applied in the usual way, as a cosmetic one.

Laser therapy of the fungus

The essence of the procedure is the effects of fungi, fungal disputes and micelles, literal laser “heating” and the destruction of infection, stimulating microcirculation.

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

Advantages and benefits of therapy:

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

Despite the lack of side effects of laser therapy, a doctor’s consultation is previously necessary, since there are contraindications.

Hardware pedicure

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

The procedure is carried out by a specially trained doctor - a podologist.

Advantages of medical pedicure:

  • Eliminates the affected part of the nail without effort from the side of the patient;
  • Full care of 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 fungus.

Corrective therapy

A huge role in the rapid recovery without subsequent reinfection is played by corrigating therapy, which consists in the additional prescription of drugs and procedures,contributing to general healing.As a rule, such measures are especially useful in the presence of systemic diseases, which are the cause of a fungal infection.

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Corrigating therapy includes:

  1. Drugs that improve blood circulation.Help to speed up the growth of a healthy nail.
  2. Vitamins A and E.They contribute to the growth of strong, healthy, even nails.
  3. A group of vitamins c.They participate in the formation of keratin, the main building material for nails (B1), affect important processes of metabolism.
  4. Vitamin complexes to improve trophic of nails and tissues near the nail, to strengthen immunity.
  5. Physiotherapy-UHF-therapy, amplipulse therapy, diatrymia on the area of the cervical-thoracic department and lumbar-cross (about 7-10 days in a row).The procedure of overhead laser blood irradiation on the area of peripheral vessels.They are prescribed to improve blood properties, total blood circulation and lymph flow, for better delivery of drugs, which has a beneficial effect on the growing of a healthy nail.
  6. Hepatoprotectors.Reduce the negative effects of antifungal drugs on the liver (especially ketoconazole).

Radical measure - removal of the nail plate

  1. The complete removal of the nail plate is indicated with enhanced hyperkeratosis, which complicates the intake of medicinal substances to the nail.
  2. I recommend that impressive people refrain about watching!Operation to remove the nail infected with a fungus:
  3. Applied:
  • In severe advanced forms of the fungus, when you need to get rid of the source of fungal infection;
  • When other methods are ineffective.

Three methods of radical removal of the nail:

  1. Chemical method.Allows you to painlessly remove the affected area with the help of softening compounds, which are fixed on the nail with plasters.
  2. Surgical method.A painful operation under anesthesia, when an infected nail is literally torn off the nail bed using a surgical tool.In case of extreme need, they resort to get rid of a nail causing frequent relapses of infection.
  3. Matrixectomy.A more radical surgery than surgical.The matrix of the nail is damaged - the area from where the body of the nail is formed, which does not allow to grow with a new nail.This is an extreme measure that completely eliminates the fungal infection in a chronic disease of onychomycosis.