Common Symptoms of Nail Fungus Infection

April 6, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Symptoms of nail fungus infection will depend on the type of fungus infection you have. Nail fungus infection can cause unpleasant feeling but is usually not hurt you at the beginning and Athlete’s foot is often present.

The most common nail fungus infection, distal subungal onychomycosis, is caused by dermatophytes. It infects both the nail and the nail bed (skin underneath the nail). Dermathophytes cause approximately 90% off all nail fungus infection. Some common symptoms if your nail infected by demathophytes:

• Your nail distorted in shape
• Yellow stripes in the nail bed and on the underside of the nail.
• Dry, with no luster or shine.
• Buildup of bits and pieces of skin and nail fragments (debris) under the nail.
• Easily broken, crumbly or ragged.

(Infected nails may also separate from the nail bed, a condition called onycholysis. You may even feel pain in your toes or fingertips and detect a slightly foul odor.)

The second most common nail fungus infection that also caused by dermatophytes is white superficial onychomycosis. This type of nail fungus infection appears on the nail surface. Some symptoms of white superficial onychomycosis:

• White stripes or spots on your nail surface.
• As the infection gets worse, your nail surface becomes soft and powdery.
• Your nail surface color becomes brown of gray and crumbly, however the nail does not separate from the skin underneath.

And there are two types of rare nail fungus infection. Candida onychomycosis and Proximal subungal onychomycosis. Candida onychomycosis is a fungus infection that causes approximately 1% of fungal nail infections. Proximal subungual onychomycosis is a rare fungus infection, only less than 1% off all nail fungus infection, it affects to many people infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

The Best Tips to Curing Nail Fungus

March 13, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Nails must be kept clean and dry always and breath fresh air. Nail fungus naturally occurs on toenail. Some reason is wearing shoes that are tied too tight, wearing shoes for a very long time can cause your feet to perspire and build fungus. Borrowing of nail cutter and other tools from other people might also cause you the transferring of fungus, because if the user has fungus infection it might get to you.Trauma can be one of the reasons for its cause. If one of your gets injured it allows the bacteria to get in. Those people with low immune system have a great chance of getting this disease. Once it occurs in one toenail it spreads to other nails at the same feet.

There are mild and aggressive kinds of medications. It can be treated in the traditional way, self treated, or it can be doctor prescribed. Most probably it is much to be preferred by doctors to guarantee the effectiveness and safeness of the treatment. Some medicines can cause side effects especially on those people who are suffering from liver diseases and can also cause allergies because of its high toxic contents.

People who have depressed immune systems like those people with problem in their circulatory system, Diabetic people, elderly people and those who have HIV. Medication for nail fungus is a long-term treatment. Awareness in preventing it can minimize its risk to preserve your healthy nail.

It takes almost 3 months to be done. In three months, while your nails grow, the medicine applied prevents the fungi from growing, bringing back the healthy nail.

Curing Nail fungus has its success rate at 60–80 percent and it is not assured that it will not occur again. In fact it has a 15 percent chance to reoccur.

Nail Fungus is a long lasting kind of infection. That is why after treating it the doctors still recommend their patients to continue the use of anti-fungal creams. This is to prevent another build up of fungus infection.

The best way to keep a healthy nail is to keep your hygiene always. To prevent fungus infection we must follow some certain methods. The first is, wear open footwear as much as possible. Second, change socks immediately if it becomes damp or wearing absorbent socks is more preferable. Third, don’t wear high top boots if not needed. Fourth, Treat fungus as early as you can to stop its spreading.