Fungal diseases are one of the most common in infectious medical practice.The disease is caused by fungi that easily move from one person to another with a breach with the elementary rules of personal hygiene.
To protect yourself and your loved ones, never wear another person's shoes.Often, the infection occurs when visiting a pool, a gym, Saunas, where there are ideal conditions for the development of fungal infection: humidity, fever.
What needs to know about a common disease to avoid or recover in the initial stage?
How to treat nail fungus in the leg pharmacy
Medical statistics claim that they treat fungal diseases when the problem occurs in the legs, even on the nails.It is very important when treatment begins.The initial stage of the disease is easier to treat.Getting rid of ancient fungus is a long and often painful test.It is important to take treatment at the end, to the disappearance of all the signs of the disease, otherwise, the remaining approach can give a new round of nail diseases.
For the treatment of mycosis (fungus) of the legs and nails, local products are used in the form of gels, aerosols, ointments, varnishes and drug medications.The main task of antifungal medications is the destruction of the fungus, the relief of inflammation, the restoration of normal blood circulation and relapse prevention.A large number of medications proposed against fungal diseases sometimes perplexed to the patient.
Never make yourself diagnosed.
If you have doubts and suspicions of the leg infection with a fungus, if the thumbnail (and suffers one of the first) the color changed, it became grayish, yellow, thickened, began to continue urgently to visit a dermatologist.
After the inspection, the laboratory tests, the doctor will prescribe an appropriate treatment.To find effective ways to combat the fungus and understand the essence of treatment methods, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with information.
Varnish
If the nail fungus is not neglected, but is in the initial stage, you should try to apply varnishes that help soften the affected area.In this case, fungus spores die under the influence of drugs.
The most common antifungal varnishes are considered "Lamizil", "Loceril", "Demicen", "Batrafen".When observing the instructions, the varnish is applied twice a week for several months, until a healthy nail grows completely.
For the treatment of the nail, select a type of drug.It is not recommended to alternate, change varnishes, such manipulations will lead to a decrease in the effectiveness of the therapeutic effect.Before starting to use, be sure to read the contraindications.Pregnant women, children and people who suffer from individual intolerance to use antifungal varnishes are prohibited.
Before applying the varnish, it must be eliminated as much as possible with the fungus with the help of a special file that comes with the medication.
With a rank of alcohol solution, a layer of varnish is applied, which must be changed every few days.Before the procedure, you can take a bathroom with soap.
The varnish is eliminated in the same way as decorative, using organic solvents.
Drug list
With advanced forms of a fungal infection of the foot and nails, it is worth considering the option of a mixed treatment, where, together with creams, varnishes and aerosols, it must take tablets.Systemic antibiotics have a strong detrimental effect on bacteria, accelerating the treatment process.The correct determination of the disease of the disease will help to get rid of mycosis.
The independent use of tablets is prohibited, they have a series of contraindications for their use, so taking the medication must be controlled by an experienced doctor.The main assigned tablets: "ketoconazole", "itraconazole" (capsules), "terbinafin", "grisofulvin", "irunin" and its anologists."Fluconazole" is released in capsules and as syrup, for internal use.
Remedies to remove affected nail plates
- The most unpleasant and painful is the surgical elimination of the nail, after which the dressings are made without a fault in 7-10 days.To limit load on the legs, a bed and house mode for rehabilitation is recommended.The cure process is long, accompanied by discomfort.
- The removal of the nail plate hardware is carried out by means of a device with abrasive nozzles that resemble dental drills.After applying a special softening composition, the specialist gradually cleanses the layers of the infected nail.For complete elimination, you must make at least 3-4 sessions.After the procedure, all instruments and elements in contact with the patient are necessarily disinfected and sterilized.
- A good alternative to the methods listed is the cosmetic product "nails", which eliminates the nail infected with mycosis in a short time (several procedures).Tea tree oil, which is part of the composition, has a disinfectant, antifungal effect, helps quickly cultivate a new healthy nail."Nailvit" is applied directly to the nail after steamed in a soap solution, covered with a layer for several days.More details about the use are indicated in the instructions for the medication.
Local funds: creams, aerosols and ointments
In the initial stage of the disease, it is better to use local medications in the form of creams, gels, ointments.The creams - "Zalain", "Bifosin", "Nizoral", "Mikozoral", "Mifungar", "Terbinoks", "Atifin", "Miconorm", "Terbitizil", "Fundizol", "Terbinfine";Rocías: "Thermicon," Lamitel, Terbix ". Apply on a dry and dry surface of the tips of the fingers and the nail affected by mycosis. The fursin antifungal fluid that contains boric acid and resorcinol contributes to the drying and disinfection of the affected areas.
The Yodinol antiseptic, created on the basis of iodine, accelerates the process of updating and healing the nail itself and the place around it.After applying the aerosol, the manifestations of an allergic reaction in the form of burning are possible itching.
For creams or gel, fighting the fungus, it is better to absorb in the nail, the surface should be treated slightly with a file.
To improve the therapeutic effect on creams, ointments can add propolis with a strong anti -inflammatory effect.
Popular remedies
It is easier for some people to use less expensive popular remedies for the treatment of fungus nails.But it should be remembered that in advanced cases, without a complex therapy, which will completely kill the spores of the fungus, it cannot be dispensed, otherwise, the newly cultivated nail will be infected and the disease will return.The treatment according to the scheme of domestic procedures will have a beneficial effect only if only the first signs of infection with mycosis appeared.
Vinegar
Vinegar has an acidic environment, which negatively affects fungus bacteria.It is not worth abusing this tool for treatment, it can cause burns around the nail.
- The easiest way is to lubricate the nail plate and leg skin with a cotton swab moistened in 9%vinegar.Then you must put cotton socks of your feet.The procedure is done at night.
- Spa.Before bedtime, pour 200-250 ml of dining vinegar and steam legs for 10-15 minutes in a hot water basin.After the procedure, the humidity of the clove is removed with a disposable towel or napkin and the applied medications recommended by the doctor.It is better to make such bathrooms every two days.
- LotionsMoisten a cotton or gauze of gauze in vinegar or mixtures with vegetable oil prepared in equal proportions.Using adhesive plasters at night, adhere to the nail.The treatment process is long until a new healthy nail grows, but the fungus is destroyed.
Iodine
There is an iodine alcohol solution on each house medicine kit, so this tool is very popular for the treatment of leg mycosis.Iodine is a strong antiseptic that has caulster properties, it is able to force the protein to curl up.The fungus has a protein structure, so the use of iodine can show a rapid positive effect on the treatment, but only if the disease is not thrown, and the nail plate is affected by a room.
Of the use of iodine, the nail can acquire yellow, which will disappear over time.Lubricate the skin of the finger and feet with iodine with caution, in moderate quantities, so as not to cause a burn.
Lubricate the nail plate regularly, daily, until complete recovery.In healthy nails in order to prevent iodine, it applies once a day, in the areas affected twice.
Remember that healthy patients and patients with fungi nails are treated with different tampons, to avoid the propagation of mycosis.
Celandine
Many generations of people are known about Celandine's healing properties.Phytotherapists are positive about the use of this medicinal plant, but remind you that you need to know the measure in everything.The written cell of the stem emits bright yellow juice, which should be used immediately for treatment and lubricate the infected area of the leg and nail.A large amount of juice can cause a burn.
To prepare Celandine's tincture, its fleshy stems and leaves must pass through a meat grinder and squeeze with a dubbed gauze in several layers.The resulting amount of juice in a proportion of 1: 1 diluted with 70% alcohol and insists approximately one day.
The treatment of the affected areas of the skin and the nail is carried out with a Celandine alcohol solution, after cooking the legs in a hot soap bath.For effective treatment, the use of tinctures is alternated with bathrooms based on a heavenly decoction.
1 liter of grass infusion is added strong to hot water.Falls legs for 15-20 minutes.
Tea fungus
The tea fungus is used not only to prepare a tonic drink, but also for therapeutic purposes.Used to rub on skin and nails infected or as tablets.
- Peel a piece of tea mushrooms, grind in a grout and rub 2-3 times a day in an infected area.
- The compress applies at night.The washed layer and tea fungus is applied to the infected nail, rolled with polyethylene and puts on a dense finger.During treatment, pain can occur.Rinse the leg in the morning with warm water, remove the upper layer from the nail, which will gradually exfoliate.After eliminating dead particles, the nail is lubricated with iodine or green.Treatment procedures are repeated in a 5-7 days course.After time, for the prevention and consolidation of the result after treatment, repeat the procedure 1-2 times.
Recipes for bathroom solutions
Many home remedies against the disease are used not only for lubrication, but also as a steamed leg bath.To do this, this or that component is added to the hot water and the legs remain in it for 10-20 minutes, after which the nail is treated with ointment, gel or antifungal cream.
- A good antibacterial effect against the fungus has hot feet baths with the addition of an iodine alcohol solution.
- The use of soap baths for soap will give a tangible positive result in the fight against fungus.The use of tar soap will improve the effect.
- Alternatively, it is possible to use bathrooms with sea salt (2 tablespoons per 1 liter of water).Treatment procedures do not stop for 20-25 days.
- Bathrooms with a heavenly decoction can be used daily, both for therapeutic and preventive purposes against the fungus of the legs and nails.
- A dick of potato peel, which is added to the hot water, will help gradually get rid of the fungus if the procedure is repeated every day.
What doctor is the nail fungus on the legs?
Mycosis (fungus) is the most common disease among the population, which affects the skin, the mucous membranes of a person, but the most common cases are the infection of the legs and nails.
If you have signs of infection with a fungus, you must communicate with a narrow specialist in this area, a mycologist who can determine the type of disease with a fungus and prescribe treatment.
Independent treatment often ends with complications, mycosis is dangerous for relapses, it is better to fight it with a medication method.
If there is no such specialist in the closest clinic, you must communicate with a dermatologist.This is a medical worker involved in the treatment of skin diseases, including nails.
You can get a quick and good result of treatment if you get in touch with the clinic in a timely manner in the first initial symptoms of a fungus.
Straightening compliance with all the recommendations of a specialist will help defeat the disease and restore their health in a short time.