Many of us is familiar with the expression: "it seems To me that the fungus in the nails of the feet, but I do not know to what doctor to go". Really what is this disease and, as such, and who can cure? Let's all in order.
So, if you felt the itch between the toes, accompanied by redness and peeling of the skin, and to the east with the nails occur strange things: they are yellow in color, become thicker, they begin to crumble, the crumble of apple, and sometimes it is very unpleasant to smell the previous expression can refer to you. Frankly, a bit difficult, because these symptoms indicate a beginning of a very unpleasant disease, called onychomycosis and is caused by the parasitic in the skin of the person fungal pathogens. According to the opinion of physicians, statisticians, among the most common of the infections is due in followed by respiratory diseases.
Try to say something about what practitioners can and must bring back health and recover the peace of mind.
We go to the doctor! But to what?
If you noticed the listed symptoms, do not despair and do not despair, without more, do not try to make independent treatment. The sooner you dare to ask for help from a competent professional, without will increase your chances of completing the cure of the disease.
So, to what doctor to go with the nail fungus? We advise you to first consult your doctor, if any, or the medical health centers, to which they are attached. Will examine you and listen to their grievances, after which you will be given the address of a specialist. In the implicit cases, the professional will be the dermatologist, which will conduct comprehensive laboratory and diagnostic testing.
If the diagnosis of fungal disease is not confirmed, or in your locality there is not a narrow specialist fungal diseases, of which we say a little further down, is the dermatologist will take care of your treatment.
It also has all the knowledge in this area, only your direct of expertise is much broader: it is the pathology of the skin epithelial, associated with inflammatory, parasitic, virus, bacterial infections as well as infections produced by fungus. When the fungus in the legs of the problems are local and are applied directly to Hot plates.
Here it is necessary to make a small clarification: the color and the structural changes in the nail can be also related to the diseases of the internal organs or systems, type of result, after the differential diagnosis is also a possibility. This situation to the therapy of connect to other professionals.
In the case of the symptoms of onychomycosis is confirmed, the presence of the state in the establishment of health, your disease will take care of a medical doctor who specializes precisely in fungal diseases. This specialist is called a mycologist.
A few words about the principles of treatment
Regardless of who performs the treatment - dermatologist or mycologist, will act in the following cumulative schedule:
- first develops an individualized plan of treatment;
- the control of the evolution of the treatment before you reach the end of a positive result;
- it assigned the preventive measures.
Fungi, like other microorganisms that have the property of adapting to the action even more powerful drugs, therefore, the greater effect it gives a comprehensive treatment of the disease, which includes the combination of pills + special varnishes or ointments. In some cases, they are the injections and medications vitamin. The doctor may recommend the use of popular treatment methods, but only as a complement to the main course of the therapy and under his supervision.
In the early stages of the disease can be cured anti-inflammatory for the varnishes, a couple of months completely the regeneration of the nails.
When the most severe cases of mycologist you can assign tools able to remove the nail of the affected finger. Are medicines which have the natural base of essential oils, which contribute not only to the loss of the nail of the patient, but also sufficiently rapid emergence of a new one.
And the initiated cases, without pills of the impact of spend do not get it. When the selection of your doctor takes into account not only the effectiveness of its effects in the concrete case, but also individual of the portability of the patient and possible side effects.
Unfortunately, the process of treatment, especially when running the cases, it can sometimes last for several months. Therefore, it is very important to the patience and the strict implementation of the recommendations of your doctor.
When the symptoms of the disease is finally removed, the doctor double repetition of the survey, which includes and delivery of lab tests. The first is performed just after completing the course of therapy, the following – after a month. If there is suspicion of relapse, the physician may re-assign the treatment.
In conclusion - on the measures of prevention
It should be noted that the non-compliance of the recommended by the medical specialist of preventive measures threat with the return of the disease.
And don't forget the main precautionary measures, such as:
- do not forget to daily treatment product for the feet, be sure to wash the legs at night;
- do not expose the product of injuries to nail the rollers and the skin on the feet;
- regularly clean and dry the shoes. On the site that we have written about the means and methods of treatment shoes fungal;
- in the common areas (bathrooms, saunas, swimming pools, beaches, gymnasiums, etc.) have on hand a change of shoes and never use outside;
- periodically clean the apartment of fungi, media, recommended by a physician;
- finally, we recall once more: the first suspicious symptoms reminiscent of illness, fungicide, do not hesitate to get to the dermatologist or the micólogoy.
The pledge of the rapid and definitive recovery is to resort to a doctor!