Among the common people different disease, not life-threatening, but lead to severe discomfort. Onychomycosis is the representative of fungi of the pathology. He hits nail plate is completely destroyed. It is wet and warm, the ideal environment for their reproduction. The symptoms of fungus in the nails of the feet are used are often hidden in the nature, and finally the disease is already in execution.
The major types of mycoses
The nails of the involvement of the different types of mycoses. Most often found exerts the action antifungal. Trichophyton red affects the skin of the hands and feet. Its main manifestations of yellow stains or white color in nail plates. Little by little the surface of the infection grows, it changes the color of the whole nail, and he begins to move away from the cylinder head. In severe cases, this leads to the fungus that affects the skin.
Trichophyton Mentagrophytes begins with interdigital area, after which it passes over. Manifests itself it is a yellow or white stain, which is transformed in subungual hyperkeratosis. The disease usually affects only the extension of the fingers, or our shipping. Your causal agent more actively multiplies in the summer months.
It is much less common in Trichophyton purple. It is the most widespread in the far east and in Central asia. Surprise hairy part of the head and is more commonly known as ringworm. In the absence of treatment in the nail appear dark hills.
Fungus under the nails in the feet occurs due to an infection of the yeast fungus. The causative agents — candida-and-white candida parapsilosis. The disease usually appears in the background of the already existing onichamicosis.
The main signs of the defeat yeast fungi:
- the white attack in the nails, which with time becomes gray;
- the inflammation of the cuticle;
- purulent.
All of these symptoms bring pain. Often the yeast fungi become a professional disease, that develops in people who have permanent contact with the water. In the absence of timely treatment of the nail plate thinning in and out of the cylinder head.
Less frequently found molds. The first is similar to that of the manifestation of the candida and typically occurs after injury to the thumbs, while the second covers the nail with black dots.
Classification of the fungi of the defeats
Symptoms of nail fungus are varied. They depend on the form of the disease and its severity. Some doctors share mycosis of the location and depth of penetration:
- When distal addresses the form of the free surface of the edge, color of the plate changed to brown or yellow. With the time the size of the affected area to grow, and the structure of the nail changes to rough, uneven.
- Side form is manifested in a similar way, only affected by the lateral parts of the nail.
- When the proximal and in the form of the infection begins with the cuticle. Of the skin of the roller of the spreading of the white patch, which becomes increasingly. The surface gets murky and loses brightness, in severe cases, begins to crumble.
Some doctors prefer to classify the disease, focusing on the degree of thickening of the nail. When regular food so he doesn't change size, but are visible outbreaks of the disease. When hypertrophic occurs thickening of the skin, which leads to a thickening of the nail and discomfort when walking. Atrophic form leads to the full detachment of the nail plate.
The complexity of the treatment of fungal of the defeat of nails in the feet is that in the majority of cases the disease is detected in the execution stage, when it produces atrophy. The first symptoms of the infection — spots or banding, nail plates. They do not lead to any discomfort, so that people do not pay attention to this problem at the time.
The characteristic symptoms
Define the appearance of fungus on the nails of the feet, is very simple: in the plate appear colored spots, it can be deformed, to exfoliate and to move away from the cylinder head. The progression of the disease of the side rollers redden and peel. Some forms are accompanied by a rash in the interdigital area.
Another characteristic symptom is the burning and itching. The skin on the sides of the cylinder thickens and begins the take-off, after which appears the irritation. The hairstyle only reinforces this is a very unpleasant feeling.
The first signal of the nail fungus of the feet is not only the change of color of the plate, but also the loss of its brightness. It gets murky, with the progression of the disease becomes gray. If the attempts to cut actively crumbles and breaks, with time, this becomes make things more difficult. Often the process is accompanied by unpleasant odor. In the cases of all the nail plate is complicated so much so that it can't be cut.
The pain is rarely occur. May appear due to the plate is complicated and begins to rubbing of shoes is and brings discomfort. In some cases the pressure on the affected area, causes an ingrown nail on the side of the rollers.
Due to the propagation of the controversy in the soft tissue disturbs the work of nerve endings. Can cause paroxysmal pain that occurs even at times of rest. In the severe forms of fungus affects the area between the toes. Skin rash in the form of small bubbles covering the skin, and when broken, in their place appear the sores that deliver severe discomfort when walking.
Methods of treatment
To clarify the diagnosis, require laboratory diagnosis. Only it allows you to identify stimulant of the disease and allow you to find an effective treatment. Therapy includes medicines for internal and external use. The ointment put clean and dry the area.
The choice depends on a pathogen. The course duration is adjusted individually, but normally the two missing months. The treatment is sure to continue, even after the disappearance of the symptoms.
Necessarily drugs are used for oral administration. Are intended for the destruction of mold spores. During the treatment the patient should receive regular medical follow-up and perform the test. This will allow you to determine the effectiveness of the treatment.
On rare occasions, used the surgical removal of the affected nail. This method does not eliminate the infection and, therefore, the new plate will be also surprised by the mycosis. Hardware pedicure more careful of the methodology, that allows to remove it without difficulty Warm layer. The cleaning is carried out with a periodicity of once every two weeks until the complete removal of the affected layers.