Onychomycosis can be transmitted and prevented.
According to the doctor, onychomycosis is an infectious disease that occurs on human nails. There are many kinds of pathogenic fungi that can cause onychomycosis, the most important of which is dermatophyte, which lives around us, such as soil, the ground of baths and swimming pools, animals (common in cats, dogs, pigs, etc. ) and rashes in patients with dermatomycosis.
Onychomycosis, like other tinea diseases, is common in hot and humid areas. In addition to geographical factors, personal circumstances determine who is more likely to get sick, such as not paying attention to personal hygiene, often working or exercising, wearing tights and airtight shoes, being old and weak, and so on. Often suffer from athlete's foot, such as athlete's foot, and then infect toenails, but a few people have onychomycosis first, and then cause skin infection through diseased nails. Onychomycosis can not only infect itself, but also infect others.
In recent years, some new oral antifungal drugs have come out, which have high curative effect on onychomycosis, little side effects and are relatively safe and reliable. Patients can take medicine under the guidance of a doctor.
In addition, certain preventive measures should be taken after onychomycosis is cured, especially to keep feet dry, public baths and swimming pools should wear slippers, and family members suffering from tinea should be treated at the same time.
Onychomycosis is an infectious disease that occurs on human nails. Medically called onychomycosis, it is caused by fungal infection. There are many pathogenic fungi that can cause onychomycosis. The latest pathogenic investigation shows that onychomycosis in China is mainly caused by dermatophytes, yeasts and molds, and there is a certain proportion of mixed infection.
Correct diagnosis is the first prerequisite for curing onychomycosis. Abnormal nails or toenails are not necessarily onychomycosis. Many skin diseases and systemic diseases can also cause nail changes, such as psoriasis, eczema, persistent acrodermatitis, Raynaud's disease, etc., which are similar to onychomycosis in symptoms. Patients themselves are often difficult to distinguish, and one of the most important diagnostic reference indexes is fungal microscopic examination or positive culture. Therefore, you should go to the dermatology department of a regular hospital immediately after you get sick. You can do a fungal test or culture, and then make a treatment plan after the diagnosis of onychomycosis.
Actually, onychomycosis is not difficult to treat. The most important thing is to receive correct treatment in the dermatology department of a regular hospital. Patients should know more about the treatment of onychomycosis, so as to discuss the most suitable treatment plan with doctors, understand the doctor's treatment intention more easily, and better cooperate with doctors to treat diseases.
The traditional treatment of onychomycosis is to scrape off fragile onychomycosis with a knife or thin onychomycosis, and then apply 5% iodine tincture or 10-30% glacial acetic acid solution. This method will take at least one year to be effective. Many patients often stop treatment because of the color of iodine, the smell of glacial acetic acid and the long course of treatment. Moreover, the dense structure of nail itself hinders the penetration of external medicine, so the cure rate of simple external medicine is low, and it is mainly used with oral medicine at present.
Although the method of surgical nail removal is simple, it is rarely used at present, because it is sometimes difficult to completely remove the diseased nail, and the fungi in the nail bed still have the opportunity to invade the deck again and recur many times. The severe pain and possible secondary infection after operation bring inconvenience to life and work.
Later, the medical community developed oral antifungal drugs, including griseofulvin and ketoconazole in the early stage. These drugs are easy to take, but they are gradually eliminated because of their unstable curative effect, small antibacterial range, high recurrence rate, worrying side effects and taking for more than half a year to one and a half years.
In recent years, the emergence of a new generation of oral antifungal drugs has made a great breakthrough in the treatment of onychomycosis. It can be said that onychomycosis can be completely cured as long as it is actively treated. At present, doctors mainly recommend simple and convenient oral broad-spectrum antifungal drugs, such as itraconazole (spirochete capsule). The medicine has a broad antifungal spectrum and can effectively treat onychomycosis caused by various fungal infections, including dermatophytes, yeasts and molds. Clinical studies have proved that the effective cure rate is 85-90%. Because of its high lipophilicity and horniness, the medicine can continue to play a role in nails after a course of treatment 10 months or more, and ugly onychomycosis is immediately replaced by healthy nails. At present, the drug has been safely used in 73 countries around the world with more than 70 million users.