Demyxil Official site
Share this

Effective treatment and prevention of nail fungi - a healthy lifestyle

Mycosis is a dangerous disease whose treatment takes months and, in some cases, years.All can be infected with them;Therefore, regular prevention of nail fungus is important to everyone.

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

General recommendations for fungal prevention

Fungal prevention is conditionally divided into primary and secondary.The first provides for compliance with the rules to reduce the risk of diseases of people who had not been patiently sick with onychomycosis.The second aims to prevent 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 and hands, it is advisable to wash with antibacterial soap several times a day;
  • Always use individual hygiene products, in particular towels, stone -S, washing cloth;
    • Nail fungus
  • In public places (saunas, souls, beaches), they use slippers, preferably with a closed foot finger;
  • Have individual house slippers, do not wear shoes offered by owners, especially in barefoot;
  • Constantly monitor the condition of the skin and nails on the fingers of the arms, legs, does not allow the formation of cracks, wounds, abrasions, when they appear, go through the necessary course of treatment;
  • Trust pedicure and manicure masters that can ensure that all tools suffer proper disinfection or access the procedure with their own tools;
  • If you increase nails, make sure the master necessarily makes antifungal disinfection;
  • Disinfect your tools for manicure and pedicure, especially if other family members use them;
  • Before you try your shoes in the store, put your clean socks;
  • Take care with shoes regularly, make sure it is dry, periodically treat with antifungal agents;
  • Give preference to natural material shoes, the leg does not vaporize them;
  • Fight with excessive leg perspiration as well as the hands;
  • After water procedures, always completely clean your arms and legs, because in a humid environment the fungus develops rapidly;
  • If someone in the family suffers from onychomycosis, it is important to disinfect all carpets, floors, treat the bath and other places where he was barefoot.

Pharmacists for the prevention of nail fungus

When the likelihood of being infected with a nail plate fungus is too high or required to prevent onicomycosis again, pharmacy medications 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.

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

Popular remedies

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

Consider effective fungus folk recipes:

  1. Degree a cotton pillow with hydrogen peroxide and attach to nails for 10 minutes.This lotion will act more efficiently if you curl your fingers with a cooking movie.This procedure should be performed if there is a high risk of infection with ringworm.Otherwise, just clean the nail plates with hydrogen peroxide.
  2. Cut the garlic clove, wet in salt to leave the juice.Gently clean all your nails.After 10 to 15 minutes, they can be washed.
  3. Nails should be periodically clean with ammonia.To perform the procedure, it must be diluted in equal parts of the water.
  4. Boric acid baths disinfect nails well as well as the skin of the feet and hands.
  5. Dilutar the soda with water to the state of Huel.Place the resulting composition in nail plates for 10 minutes.After that, rinse with warm water.
  6. Clean your nails with squeezed onion juice on the spot.
  7. Clean nail plates with alcohol.
  8. A very effective preventive tool is tea tree oil.Just apply it to the nails with a cotton swab to avoid infection with ringworm.
  9. To avoid the occurrence of the fungus on the nails, make baths periodically made of strong coffee.
  10. Dilute vinegar, you can take ordinary or apple in a proportion of 1 to 8 with water.Clean the nail plates with this solution.

Folk recipes can return the beauty of nails.

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

You can reduce the likelihood of a nail fungus at least.To do this, simply comply with preventive recommendations and periodically apply drug or folk drugs.However, even the most complete preventive measures do not always allow themselves to protect themselves from the disease.

When the first signs appear, which possibly indicate onychomycosis infection, contact a dermatologist or mycologist.The self -mate is unacceptable.

Fungal Fungi Prevention in Leg: Medical Approach and Folk Recipes, Hygiene Rules and Preventive Measures

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

Obstacles to rapid and effective treatment:

  • Impaired peripheral blood circulationIt affects the rate of metabolic processes in the limbs.
  • Slow metabolismIt interferes with the rapid growth of nails and the intake of nutrients, oxygen and medicines.
  • Functional failures in the work of the endocrine system, especially diabetes.Glucose, whose assimilation is disturbed with a person's bodies, serves as a favorable nutrient means for the lives of mushrooms.
  • Reduced body resistanceIt violates immunity resistance, leads to an increased risk of infectious diseases, its transition to chronic forms.
  • Changes in the spine in the cervical region and the lumbar crossInterrupts the blood circulation.
  • RelatedNervous system diseasesViolation of the metabolic process.
  • PolyneuropathyBoth complications of diabetes and independent contribute to improved hyperkeratosis, dryness and foot deformation.This increases the risk of fungal infection.
  • RelatedMental disorders and states of chronic stressDepressions affect the health of all body systems.
  • The duration of the disease's anamnesisimplies a long duration of treatment.
  • Greatest risknail trauma, increased perspirationThe skin of the feet.

First of All - Diagnosis

Diagnosis to detect the causative agent of a fungal infectiondefines the selection of effective treatment.How correctly healing Onykhomicosis will definitely say a doctor (which doctor IR).

The most common infection pathogens:

  • Dermatophytes (Tr. Rubrum, Tr. Mentagrophytes);
  • Mushrooms similar to yeast of the genus Candida (S. albicans);
  • Light mushrooms.

The determination of fungal infection occurs in four stages:

  • Clinical evaluation of nail conditionfor external visible changes;
  • Direction to the laboratoryTrim the nail, shave from the nail bed and under the nail plate;
  • Microscopic examinationsowing material on nutrient media;
  • IdentificationCulture cultivated or sowing in selective environments in some cases to accurately determine the type of mushroom.

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

Among the elderly, there are usually cases of mixed infection.

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

Medication approach

Approaches for the treatment of drug onicomyxis:

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

Rules for Treatment of Effective Medicines:

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

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

The table will help choose the form of therapy dosage based on the resources of its factors

System therapy

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

System therapy makes sense with these clinical manifestations:

  • In the final stages of fungus development, when there is a complete damage to the nail or more than half is infected;
  • Sacreed changes in the appearance of nails: hyperkeratosis, onicolis;
  • Disease of more than 2-3 nails;
  • Skin infection dissemination, hairy areas of the body;
  • If local therapy is not authorized.

Against -Indications for System Therapy:

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

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

Varnish

Local therapy with varnishes is performed:

  • With damage to 1-2 nails;
  • With damage less than half of the nail;
  • With systemic therapy against -indicated;
  • In combination with systemic therapy;
  • In the early stages of onychomycosis.

The benefits of local therapy with varnishes:

  1. Varnish donationAllows an antifungal substance to penetrate the nail bed.
  2. The varnish movie createsprotective barrier of the evaporation of the antifungal substance and obstacle to the infection.

Antifungal varnish is applied in the usual way as cosmetic.

Laser Therapy of the Fungus

The essence of the procedure is the effects of fungal fungi, fungal disputes, literal laser "warming" and the destruction of infection, stimulating microcirculation.

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

Advantages and benefits of therapy:

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

Despite the lack of side effects of laser therapy, medical appointment is required previously necessary as there are against -indications.

Hardware pedicure

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

The procedure is performed by a specially trained doctor - a podiatologist.

Advantages of medical pedicure:

  • Eliminates the affected part of the nail effortlessly on the patient's side;
  • Care of the foot and nails;
  • Healing an existing infection, avoids new problems;
  • Suitable for almost all patients;
  • It is combined with the fungus treatment complex.

Corrective therapy

A major role in rapidly recovery without subsequent reinfection is played by correcting therapy, which consists of the additional prescription of medicines and procedures,contributing to general healing.As a rule, these measures are especially useful in the presence of systemic diseases, which are the cause of a fungal infection.

The daily need for vitamins, depending on the age (clickable)

Corporate therapy includes:

  1. Drugs that improve blood circulation.Help accelerate the growth of a healthy nail.
  2. Vitamins A and E.They contribute to the growth of strong, healthy and uniform 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 the trophic from nails and fabrics near the nailto strengthen immunity.
  5. Physiotherapy-Uhf-therapy, therapy with ampulse, diatria in the area of the cervical-licacic department and lumbar crossing (about 7 to 10 days in a row).The aerial laser blood irradiation procedure in the area of peripheral vessels.They are prescribed to improve blood properties, total blood circulation and lymphatic flow for better drug delivery, which has a beneficial effect on the cultivation of a healthy nail.
  6. Hepatoprotector.Reduce the negative effects of antifungal drugs on the liver (especially ketoconazole).

Radical Measure - Nail plate removal

  1. Full removal of the nail plate is indicated with improved hyperkeratosis, which complicates the ingestion of medicinal substances in the nail.
  2. I recommend that impressive people abstain from watching!Operation to remove the infected nail with a fungus:
  3. Applied:
  • In severe advanced shapes of the fungus, when you need to get rid of the source of fungal infection;
  • When other methods are ineffective.

Three nail radical removal methods:

  1. Chemical method.Allows you to remove the affected area without pain with the help of softening compounds, which are fixed on the nail with brlassians.
  2. Surgical method.A painful operation under anesthesia, when an infected nail is literally torn from the nail bed using a surgical tool.In case of extreme need, they resort to get rid of a nail, causing frequent recurrences of infection.
  3. Matrixectomy.A more radical than surgical surgery.The nail matrix is damaged - the area from which the nail body is formed, which does not allow to grow with a new nail.This is an extreme measure that completely eliminates fungal infection in a chronic onychomycosis disease.