A modern resident every day risks 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 mushrooms
Mold mushroom Most often affects the body weakened by a long illness.The nail becomes yellow, becomes green, blue, sometimes black.In some cases, onychomycosis is only manifested by stains.Appropriate treatment eliminates nail fungus in a month or two.
Dermatophytes.The toes of the toes are covered with yellow spots or bands, on the hands, the shadow is lighter.The yellow edge can move away.As the yellow of yellow is infected, it moves in the middle.In the absence of the treatment of the fungus, the nail plate is completely yellow.
Yeast mushrooms. The nail is uneven, from waves and grooves, becomes yellow or becomes brown, after being late.At the start of the defeat, the nail rolls with suppuration are thickened.
Nail mushroom prevention
The Causal Agent of Onychomycosis is extremely tenacious.Fungal disputes do not die at temperatures up to + 100 ° C, resulting from cold up to -60 ° C, survive after household chemicals for disinfection.
You can be infected with the locker room of a fitness club or a swimming pool, in the locker room, in a manicure lounge, on the beach.
In approximately a third of cases, the infection comes from the onychomycosis of parents through current household items - shoes, a towel, a toilet glove, etc.
Compliance with simple rules prevent infection by spores of the nail fungus:
- Walk on the beach only in slippers;
- In the swimming pool and in the locker room, put closed slippers;
- Use your shoes only;
- Carefully dry wet shoes;
- Do not wear shoes in which humidity has remained;
- Do not use porous carpet in the bathroom;
- Change the socks every day;
- After water procedures, wipe your legs carefully, in particular between toes, the process with antifungal cream or powder for prevention;
- Treat abrasions and scratches in a timely manner;
- Use individual accessories for pedicure - saws, scissors, etc.;
- Strengthen immunity.
If one of the family members suffers from onychomycosis, treat the bathroom walls:
- Mix the equal parts of chloramine with washing powder.
- Apply the composition for half an hour, then wash.Only chloramine can be used.
- The suffering fungal disease is used to use a separate toilet glove, which after consumption to dip for an hour or more in a chloramine solution at 5%.
- The socks, tights and other underwear boil for 20 minutes in a 2%soap stack solution, high temperature iron.
- After use, wipe the manicure scissors with alcohol, keep the flame.
The nail fungus infects a piece of 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 the infection, the fungus must take root.First, the disease affects the thumbs.During the year or more, the fungus destroys the nail plate, its damage manifests itself by a change in color, thickening, the edges collapse.
Color change.A healthy fungus, not affected by a fungus, the fog of the soil is transparent, the translucent capillaries give it a pink tint.The infection changes color in yellow, brown, black.Under the nail plate, a space forms where microbes and pathogens enter.
Thickening.The nail plate becomes thicker due to the increase in keratinization, which in advanced cases prevents 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 onychomycosis nails, the disease enters a chronic form.Having penetrated the body, the fungus weakens immunity, causes allergic reactions, affects internal organs.
Treatment of nail fungi with drugs
The 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 the nail fungus has no results, the doctor prescribes antifungal drugs for internal use.
They penetrate the cells under the nail, deprive the fungus of the ability to germinate more deeply.Treatment lasts a year or more.
Home treatment nail mushrooms
Propoli ointment:
- Cool the propolis, grind and add vegetable oil to a heating at + 60 ° C, stir for 10 minutes, let cool, filter.Keep in a glass bowl.
To treat nail mushrooms on the legs in the morning and in the evening, close with several layers of gauze, which to repair it with an adhesive plaster.
Propolis dye:
- Dissolve the 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 iodine alcohol dye and apple vinegar in equal proportions.
To treat nail mushrooms on the legs twice a day for 6 months.
Recipe 2:
- Add to 2s.l.Apple vinegar 10 drops of tea tree oil, a chopped garlic clove, mix carefully.
Apply to affected areas 2 to 3 times a day.
Recipe 3:
- Place the soap, salt, baking soda, cook your feet in hot water.
- Cut with manicure scissors the affected area of the nail in a healthy part (the painless process).
- To apply a compress - gauze impregnated with apple cider vinegar, fix with a bandage or an adhesive plasterer.
Repeat the treatment until pure healthy nail begins to grow.
To exclude the infection itself, to disinfect shoes - wipe with vinegar or a low chlorine solution 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 in the dough.
Apply the ointment at night.
Recipe 5:
- After three days, weigh down 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 by mixing it with sweet almond oil.
Iodine:
- To treat nail mushrooms every day in the morning and evening with iodine alcohol dye.
The course is 20 days.
Ground coffee:
- Boil a strong coffee, let cool.
Subtract the affected nails without shaking the sediments.
Tea fungus:
- Repair a tea fungus at night on a nail affected by a fungus, wrap with polyethylene, bandage, rinsing and lubricating with iodine in the morning.
After a few procedures, a healthy nail begins to grow.
Folk remedies for the treatment of nail fungi
St. John's Wall::
- Treat the fungus of the nails 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, a juice or a thin ginger plate.
Both perform several applications with an interval of 5 to 10 minutes, without washing the juice with water.
Butter brush:
- Placing a slightly natural butter on the window sill - After two weeks, a tool to treat nail mushrooms on the legs is ready.
Apply the night, close the nail plates with polyethylene.
Salt, soda For the treatment of nail fungus:
- Dissolve in 1 L of lukewarm water 3 g of table salt, 5 g of baking soda.
Place your feet for 20 minutes, at the end, rinse.
Oak bark, eucalyptus:
- Brown 3s.l.OAK BARK, 2S.L.Eucalyptus leaves in 1l of boiling water, insist, tender.
Add to lukewarm water, the duration of the bath for 20 minutes.