How is fingernail treated

Update Date: 2024-07-18 Source: Network

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According to social reports, different patients may have different manifestations of finger nails, which is also called onychomycosis. It is mainly a kind of disease caused by skin bacteria invading the nail board. The main predilection parts are fingernails and toenails. The main cause of this kind of disease is caused by fungus infection of dermatophytes and yeasts. This disease is infectious, and can be transmitted to two or more. According to the etiology of the disease, the disease can be divided into two categories, one is fungal onychomycosis, which is mild and mainly invades one side of the nail surface or nail tip, the other is subungual mycosis, which has deep invasion.

How is fingernail treated

First: first of all, for patients with this kind of disease can choose surgical treatment to pull out the nail that has problems, but this kind of treatment method is relatively large wound, and may not be cured, for patients with heart disease and hypertension, surgical treatment is forbidden, so, for patients who prepare this kind of method, we should be careful.

Second: secondly, patients can be treated with oral drugs, patients can take itraconazole orally, 7 days in a row, 21 days rest as a course of treatment, cure the disease to at least 3-6 courses, because this method uses a large amount of drugs, patients need to monitor the adverse reactions of drugs.

Third: finally, patients can also be treated by external application of drugs. Patients can use 30% glacial acetic acid for external application. The nail should be thinned before applying drugs, and the effect of applying drugs is better. But patients should pay attention to protect the surrounding skin and prevent the surrounding skin from being damaged.

matters needing attention

For patients with such diseases, they should try to avoid staying in the environment with high humidity and high temperature. At the same time, they should try to avoid scratching other parts of the body with affected limbs to avoid infection in other parts. Patients should pay attention to personal hygiene and avoid fungal infection.