Nail fungus, commonly known as "gray nails", is a disease caused by dermatophytes that invade the nail plate or under the nail. Nail fungus disease is caused by dermatophytes, yeasts and non-dermatophytes and other fungal nail infections. There are two common types of nail fungus:
1. Fungal white nails (superficial white nail fungal disease) This type of lesion is limited to a piece of the nail surface or its tip.
2. Subnail fungal disease is also divided into distal lateral type, proximal subnail type and superficial white type, this type of lesion starts from both sides of the nail or distal, and then subnail infection occurs.
Expanded information
Fungi that colonize the nail plate and subnail enter the nail plate to grow and multiply after minor trauma to the nail, and they use the nail tissue as a source of nutrients on the one hand, and disrupt the normal structure of the nail on the other hand, resulting in a wide variety of subjective and objective nail damage. Family history, humid environment, malnutrition, immunocompromise, etc. are susceptible factors, trauma, especially improper manicure, application of public *** manicure tools, wearing public *** slippers, etc. can be infected with the disease.
1. Alert lesions.
There are many causes of nail changes, can not think of nail disease are nail fungal disease. But there is a point should be grasped, that is, the onset of nail fungal disease tends to start from a finger (toe) nail, and then gradually spread to other finger (toe) nail. If all ten fingernails or toenails develop at the same time, it is often a manifestation of systemic disease and requires a rapid and thorough examination of the body.
2. Timely treatment.
The best choice for treatment is from April to September of a year. Everything grows most vigorously in spring and summer, and so do the nails. Choosing the right effective treatment in this season can shorten the treatment time by one-third, minimize the impact of the treatment on the patient, and reduce the cost to a minimum.
3. Pay attention to cross-infection between family members.
According to statistics, about 30% of the family members of patients with nail fungal disease, also have varying degrees of foot mold infection phenomenon. People tend to ignore the seriousness of nail fungal disease, in the outpatient treatment of other parts of the body when the mold infection, only to find that the hands and feet with nail fungal disease, many of which the source of infection from their own family members.
4. Don't treat the infection yourself.
Nail fungus disease is a chronic fungal infection that requires active treatment, it is best to go to a regular hospital to do the relevant mycological examination to determine the nail fungus disease, under the guidance of the doctor to choose the appropriate treatment program, to avoid the diagnosis of the unknown indiscriminate use of drugs.