Are nails contagious

summary

The incidence rate of onychomycosis is relatively high. I am one of them. Seven onychomycosis on the feet are looking for various ways to treat. Some people say that the nails will be infected, so I am very worried about passing it on to my family. So, can manicure infect?

Are nails contagious

First: manicure is an infectious skin disease, but at the same time, it is not impossible to prevent and treat. Manicure is a common infectious skin disease that occurs on the nails, and dermatophytes are the main pathogens causing manicure. Dermatophytes often appear in the soil, baths and swimming pools on the ground, animals and so on.

Second: in addition to geographical factors, pay no attention to personal hygiene, often work, exercise, love to wear tight clothes and airtight shoes, old and weak, etc., are the causes of the disease. Is often the first to suffer from dermatophytosis, and then infect toenails, there are some people infected with nails, and then cause other skin infections. Nails can infect other parts of the body by themselves, and they can also infect others.

Third: nails can not only infect themselves but also others, but this kind of infection is conditional. For example, people with poor immunity are easy to be infected, and susceptible people are easy to be infected. A large number of pathogenic fungi gather in the deck and nail bed and become the reservoir of pathogenic fungi.

matters needing attention

Patients with onychomycosis should also appropriately increase physical exercise, and actively adjust diet balance, in order to improve their disease resistance, which can contribute to the occurrence of onychomycosis.