A modern resident every day is at risk of infection onychomycosis - a fungus of nails on the legs or arms.How to get rid of the disease?What home and folk remedies are effective?
Types of nail fungus
Mold fungus More often affects the body weakened by a long disease.The nail turns yellow, turns green, blue, sometimes blackens.In some cases, onychomycosis is manifested only by spots.Proper treatment eliminates the nail fungus in a month or two.
Dermatophytes.The nails of the toes are covered with yellow spots or strips, on the hands the shade is lighter.The yellow edge can move away.As the yellowness is infected, it moves to the middle.In the absence of the treatment of the fungus, the nail plate is completely yellow.
Yeast fungi. The nail is uneven, from waves and grooves, turns yellow or becomes brown, after lags behind.At the beginning of the defeat, the nail rollers with suppuration are thickened.
Nail fungus prevention
The causative agent of onychomycosis is extremely tenacious.Fungal disputes do not die at temperatures up to +100C, withstand the cold up to -60C, survive after household chemicals for disinfection.
You can get infected in the locker room of a fitness club or pool, in the dressing room, in a manicure salon, on the beach.
In about a third of cases, infection comes from onychomycosis of relatives through common household items - shoes, a towel, a washcloth, etc.
Compliance with simple rules prevent infection with spores of the nail fungus:
- walk on the beach only in slippers;
- In the pool and in the dressing room, put on closed slippers;
- use only your shoes;
- thoroughly dry the wet shoes;
- Do not wear shoes in which moisture remained;
- Do not use porous rugs in the bathroom;
- Change socks every day;
- After water procedures, thoroughly wipe your legs, especially between the toes, process with antifungal cream or powder for prevention;
- Timely treat abrasions and scuffs;
- use individual accessories for pedicure - saws, scissors, etc.;
- Strengthen immunity.
If one of the family members suffers from onychomycosis, treat the walls of the bathroom:
- Mix in equal parts of chloramine with washing powder.
- Apply the composition for half an hour, then wash off.Only chloramine can be used.
- The suffering fungal disease is used to use a separate washcloth, which after consumption to soak for an hour or longer in a 5%chloramine solution.
- Socks, tights and other underwear boil for 20 minutes in a 2% soap-pile solution, iron at high temperature.
- After use, wipe the manicure scissors with alcohol, hold over the flame.
The nail fungus infects a piece of the nail plate, a piece of skin.The first signs of the disease do not appear soon, so it is difficult to determine the source.
After infection, the fungus needs to take root.First, the disease affects the thumbs.During the year or longer, the fungus destroys the nail plate, its damage is manifested by a change in color, thickening, the edges are crumbling.
Color change.A healthy, not affected by a fungus, the fog of the floor is transparent, translucent capillaries give it a pinkish tint.Infection changes color to yellow, brown, black.Under the nail plate, a gap is formed where microbes and pathogens penetrate.
Thickening.The nail plate becomes thicker due to increased keratinization, which in advanced cases prevents the treatment of the fungus.
Crushing.In the absence or incomplete treatment, the fungus affects the entire thickness of the nail plate, it is destroyed, painted.
If you do not take measures to treat nails from onychomycosis, the disease goes into a chronic form.Having penetrated the body, the fungus weakens the immunity, causes allergic reactions, affects the internal organs.
Treatment of nail fungus with medications
Treatment is carried out under the supervision of a specialist.
The doctor prescribes external drugs - they are effective in simple and advanced cases.
If the local external treatment of nail fungus has no result, the doctor prescribes antifungal drugs of internal use.
They penetrate the cells under the nail, deprive the fungus of the ability to germinate deeper.Treatment lasts a year or longer.
Home treatment of nail fungus
Propolis ointment:
- Cool propolis, grind and add vegetable oil to a heated to +60C, stir for 10 minutes, let cool, strain.Store in glass bowl.
To treat nail fungus on the legs in the morning and in the evening, close with several layers of gauze, which to fix it with adhesive plasterer.
Propolis tincture:
- Dissolve particles in 90% alcohol, get the consistency of the ointment.
Apply with a thin layer, close the nails on the legs with waxed paper.Treat the fungus for two weeks.
Vinegar.
Recipe 1:
- Mix the alcohol tincture of iodine and apple vinegar in equal proportions.
To treat nail fungus on the legs 2 times a day for 6 months.
Recipe 2:
- Add to 2s.L.Apple vinegar 10 drops of tea tree oil, a chopped clove of garlic, mix thoroughly.
Apply to the affected areas 2-3 times a day.
Recipe 3:
- Place soap, salt, baking soda, steam the feet in hot water.
- Cut off with manicure scissors the affected area of the nail to a healthy part (the process painless).
- To apply a compress - gauze impregnated with apple cider vinegar, fix with a bandage or adhesive plasterer.
Repeat the treatment until a pure healthy nail begins to grow.
To exclude the infection itself, to disinfect shoes - wipe with vinegar or a weak solution of chlorine from the inside.
Recipe 4:
- Place a fresh chicken egg in 150 ml of vinegar essence.When the egg dissolves, add 100 g of butter, beat into the paste.
Apply ointment at night.
Recipe 5:
- After three days, soar the feet of half an hour in the bath, where to add 1/2 cup of vinegar.
To be treated until recovery.
Tea tree oil:
- Lubricate with tea tree oil several times a day or mixing it with sweet almond oil.
Iodine:
- To treat nail fungus every day in the morning and evening with alcohol tincture of iodine.
The course is 20 days.
Ground coffee:
- Boil strong coffee, let cool.
Subtract the affected nails without shaking the sediment.
Tea mushroom:
- Fix a tea fungus on the night on a nail affected by a fungus, wrap with polyethylene, bandage, rinse and lubricate with iodine in the morning.
After a few procedures, a healthy nail begins to grow.
Folk remedies for the treatment of nail fungus
St. John's wort:
- Treat the nail fungus twice a day with fresh juice, make baths with infusion or decoction.
Celandine:
- Apply fresh juice to fungal nail plates.
Ginger juice:
- Apply to a plot affected by a fungus, juice or a thin plate of ginger.
At a time, perform several applications with an interval of 5-10 minutes, without washing the juice with water.
Pucking butter:
- Place a slightly natural butter on the windowsill - after two weeks, a tool for treating nail fungus on the legs is ready.
Apply at night, close the nail plates with polyethylene.
Salt, soda For the treatment of nail fungus:
- Dissolve in 1l warm water 3 g of table salt, 5 g of baking soda.
Place the feet for 20 minutes, at the end, rinse.
Oak bark, eucalyptus:
- Brown 3s.L.Oak bark, 2s.L.Eucalyptus leaves in 1l boiling water, insist, strain.
Add to warm water, the duration of the bath for 20 minutes.