Fingernail Fungus
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Fungal infection of the nail is invasive nail penetration of fungi pathogenic for humans. Considered a trivial problem and very often ignored by patients, fingernail fungus is tolerated for years without suffering person to seek help from your doctor. Nails change gradually, starting by changing the color, then following the thickening, deformation, detachment of the nail bed due to the development of a deposit of yellow fungal, similar to spinal shock, until the total destruction of the blade disorders.
Factors that favor infection of fingernail fungus are: prolonged moisture, trauma (especially to nail big toe), narrow shoes, synthetic material, which does not allow adequate ventilation of the foot, using personal objects belonging to people infected, poor hygiene, antiseptic manicure and pedicure instruments, prolonged treatment with corticosteroids or immunosuppressive agents, diabetes mellitus, prolonged administration of antibiotics, AIDS.
Fingernail fungus is a source of contamination to the family. Ignoring early treatment and fungal infected nail is a permanent source of contamination to the family by using the same patient infected objects: towels, bathroom slippers, shoes, not a few cases that were presented in private practice two, three members of same family, having all onicomicosys. The greatest danger of spreading mycosis is the swimming pools, swimming pools, borrowing between sports footwear, shoes bought from second hand stores. Onicomicosys is a hotbed of autoinfection for the patient, fungi that is easily spread to neighboring nails, and spreading mycosis and other areas of the skin: the spaces between toes, foot, groin, axillaries, conduct ear.
They are quite common. Fingernail fungus deformation leads to perverse position of fingers and, consequently, a diverted gone. Nail disorders of the hands lose dexterity, alarms patient first by unaesthetic appearance, embarrassing, which means that coworkers to avoid him, and on the other hand, lead to significant occupational injury. Also, there is a risk that a fungus that invades nails to promote infection which inflames the tissue which becomes painful and even infected with pus.
If people working in food processing have onicomicosys, then infection can spread and, consequently, are prohibited from continuing the occupation. Onicomicosys may be a gate for secondary bacterial infections, complicating severe erysipelas. Fungal infected nails store a large amount of parasites that can produce cryptogenic rash side distance.
All potential risks that fungal infection "trivial" in the nail can generate the whole body health, and family risk of contamination and effective treatment requires early onicomicosys
Increased risk for diabetic: A group of people showed that onicomicosys developes a high risk in the diabetic patients. It is estimated that one third of patients with diabetes mellitus have fingernail fungus, men who develop diabetes show onicomicosys 2.3 times more than women, and the ratio of risk in diabetics is onicomicozei occurrence 2.77 times compared with those non diabetic the same age and sex.
"Diabetic foot" is one of the serious complications of diabetes. This fungal infection in these patients can affect the skin disorders surrounding the nail, leading to clinically significant risks. If onicomicosys remains untreated in diabetics and progresses, it can lead to recurrent erysipelas, osteomyelitis, necrosis or other complications to be feared.
Treatment for fingernail fungus: Onicomicosys treatment has always been a difficult problem for doctors and patients because the long duration of treatment (12-18 months) and the degree of toxicity of existing anti mycosis. Currently, there are successful treatments for mycosis disorders shorten pulse therapy, oral, as directed physician.