Among the common people, for a variety of ailments that are not life threatening, but it put a serious nuisance. Onychomycosis is more representative of a fungal pathologies. It affects the nail plate, the complete destruction of them. A humid and warm environment ideal for its propagation. The signs and symptoms of fungal toenails are often hidden, and at the end of the condition to be detected is already in running shape.
Principal mycoses
The nail affected by various types of mycosis. The most common dermatophytes. The red Trichophyton affect the skin of the hands and the feet. Its main symptoms — spots on a yellow or white color on your nail plates. Gradually the area of infection is growing, it is changing the color of the entire nail, and it started to move away from the bed. In severe cases, this can lead to a fungus that affects the skin.
Trichophyton Mentagrophytes interdigital begins with a space, and then move on to above. It pops up a yellow or a white spot, which transformirovalsya in the subungual hyperkeratosis. The disease usually affects just the thumbs or the fingers. Its a pathogen actively multiplies in the warm season of the year.
A much less common Trichophyton purple. It is more common in the far East and in Central Asia. Affects the scalp and is commonly referred to as ringworm. If left untreated, the nails dark bumps.
The fungus, under the toenails, and is caused due to the yeast infection fungi. The pathogens — Candida-white and Candida parapsilosis. The disease usually appears on the back of an already-existing onychomycosis.
The main characters of the yeast-like fungi:
- the white spots on the nails, which in the end becomes a gray color;
- an inflammatory disease of the cuticle;
- purulent discharge.
All of these symptoms and bring pain relief. Often, the yeast-like fungi of becoming a professional-a disease that develops in individuals, having a continuous contact with the water. In the absence of timely treatment of the nail plate cleaning, and a move away from the bed.
More rarely, there. The first one is related to the signs and symptoms of a Candida and is typically occur after an injury to the thumb, and the second color to the nails with the black dots.
Classification of fungal infections
The signs of nail fungus are different. It depends on the form of the disease and its severity. Some of the doctors and the sharing of mycosis of the localisation and the depth of penetration:
- When the distal form is touched to the surface of the free edge of the plate color changes to brown or yellow. Eventually the area affected area increases, and the structure of the nail changes and rough, uneven.
- The lateral shape is expressed in a similar way, just on the side of the nail.
- When the proximal form of the infection, it starts the cuticle. Of the skin, the roller of the spreading of the white spot, which is becoming more and more. The surface becomes cloudy and loses its gloss, in severe cases, it begins to crumble.
Some practitioners prefer to classify the disease based on the degree of thickening of the nail bed. In the normal trophic form, it still doesn't change the size, but the obvious focus of infection. In the hypertrophic is overgrowth of skin, which leads to a thickening of the nail and discomfort when walking. Atrophic form, leading to a complete rejection of the nail plate.
The complexity of treatment of a fungal nail is that, in the majority of cases, the disease is detected at an advanced stage, when atrophy occurs. The first signs of an infection — spots or streaks on the nail plates. They do not cause a nuisance, which the people do not pay attention to the problem at the time.
The characteristic symptoms.
In order to determine how to nail fungus, it is quite simple: the game board is displayed the colored spots, it may be deformed, to stratify and to move away from the bed. If the disease, the side bolsters are red, and peel. Some of the forms are to be accompanied by a rash in the interdigital region.
Another characteristic symptom is a burning and itching. The leather on the side bolsters dense and is starting to peel off, after which irritation occurs. Scratching only intensifies it's a very uncomfortable feeling.
The first sign of your nail fungus in the feet is not only a change in the color of the plate, but the loss of its Lustre. It becomes clear that, with the progression of the disease, it becomes gray. When you are trying to reduce the active breaking down and falling apart, and with the passage of time, it becomes increasingly difficult to do so. Often this process is accompanied by an unpleasant odor. In severe cases, the entire nail plate is thickened, so that it is next to impossible to cut yourself.
The pain is there. They can occur, due to the fact that the plate thickens and begins to rub against your shoes — and brings extreme discomfort. In some cases, the pressure on the affected area of the causes of an ingrown nail at the side bolsters.
Due to the spread of the spores in the soft tissue disrupted nerve endings. They can cause a paroxysmal pain that occurs even at times of rest. In the severe forms of the fungus the affected area between the toes. Rash in the form of small bubbles to cover the skin, and when they burst, and their ulcers were developed, delivering a serious inconvenience in walking.
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In order to confirm the diagnosis, to make sure that you have carried out the laboratory diagnosis. Only that it provides the ability to accurately identify the causative agent, and it allows you to choose the most effective treatment. The complex therapy includes products for indoor and outdoor use. Ointment applied on the area clean and dry.
The choice depends on the causative agent. The duration of the course is chosen individually, but it usually lasts for two months. The medical treatment has to be continued even when the symptoms are gone.
Be sure to use preparations for oral administration. They are designed to destroy the spores of the fungus. During the treatment, the patient needs to regularly see a doctor and get tested. This will determine the effectiveness of the treatment.
In rare cases, surgical removal of the affected nail. This method does not eliminate contamination, so that the new plate will also be affected by a fungal infection. Pedicure — a more gentle technique, which is painless, removal of the stratum corneum. The cleaning is carried out once every two to three weeks to completely remove the affected parts.