Actually, it has nothing to do with poor hygiene. Many patients with onychomycosis often come to see a doctor with serious complications. When asked why they didn't treat onychomycosis earlier, most of them said that onychomycosis couldn't be cured at all, so they just died. In fact, this misunderstanding is an old concept many years ago, because patients do not understand the latest progress of onychomycosis treatment programs.
The traditional treatment of onychomycosis (medically called onychomycosis) in the early years is to scrape off the fragile onychomycosis with a knife, then take medicine, or thin the onychomycosis, and then apply 5% tincture of iodine or 10-30% glacial acetic acid solution, which can be effective for at least one year. Because the dense structure of the nail itself hinders the infiltration of external drugs, even if the fungi in the deck are eliminated, the fungi in the nail bed still exist and invade the deck again after a period of time, which is easy to cause repeated attacks of onychomycosis. Many patients often stop treatment because of the color of iodine, the smell of glacial acetic acid, long course of treatment and easy recurrence.
Surgical nail removal is often used to treat onychomycosis in clinic. Although the nail removal method is simple, it is difficult to completely remove the diseased nail, which gives the fungus in the nail bed a chance to invade the deck again, and causes more recurrence, postoperative pain and possible secondary infection, which brings a lot of inconvenience to life and work. At present, it is rarely used in regular hospitals.
Later, the medical community developed oral antifungal drugs, which were convenient to take, but were gradually eliminated because of unstable curative effect, small antibacterial range, high recurrence rate and worrying side effects.
In recent years, a new generation of oral antifungal drugs has appeared, which has become the first choice for doctors because of its wide antibacterial range, good curative effect, low toxicity and convenient administration. This kind of medicine adopts unique short-term therapy, which is simple and convenient for fingernails and toenails respectively. Because of the high affinity of the new generation of oral broad-spectrum antifungal drugs to nails, although the drugs are quickly eliminated from the blood after drug withdrawal, the efficacy can stay in nails for more than 10 months or even 1 year. Patients will be surprised to find that even after stopping taking medicine, ugly onychomycosis continues to be replaced by healthy nails. Medical research proves that 90% of patients can be cured.
The sooner onychomycosis is treated, the better the curative effect. If it is not handled in time, there will be more nails dyed, which will be more troublesome and take a long time to handle. Nails grow forward at an average rate of 0. 1 mm every day, while toenails grow more slowly, so it takes at least half a year to update old nails. Some patients lack patience, and after two days of treatment, they stop treatment when they see that their nails have not changed. As a result, onychomycosis has become a chronic disease. Some patients have poor therapeutic effect, which is mainly related to their own physique. Generally, patients with poor microcirculation, poor blood supply and extremely slow or zero nail growth are prone to poor treatment results. Therefore, you should go to the dermatology department of a regular hospital in time after you get sick. The Dermatology and Venereology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association set up a toll-free number of 800-840-99 1 6 during the "China Foot Care Week" this year (from 8: 30 am to 6: 00 pm on June1day to September 3/day) to provide the most convenient information of hospitals with foot care week and hospitals with experience in treating foot skin diseases. The doctor will give an individualized treatment plan according to everyone's illness and physical condition, and adjust it at any time during the treatment. At the same time, patients should actively cooperate with doctors. Only by insisting on regular treatment and strengthening prevention at the same time can onychomycosis be truly cured.