A modern resident every day is at risk of onychomycosis of infection, a nail fungus on the legs or arms.How to get rid of the disease?What house and folk remedies are effective?
Types of nail mushrooms
Mushroom mold More often affects the body weakened by a long illness.The nail becomes yellow, becomes green, blue, sometimes blackens.In some cases, onychomycosis is manifested only for points.Adequate treatment eliminates the nail fungus in a month or two.
Dermatophytes.The nails of the fingers are covered with spots or yellow stripes, on the hands the shadow is clearer.The yellow edge can move away.Since the yellow is infected, it moves to the center.In the absence of the mushroom treatment, the nail plate is completely yellow.
Yeast mushrooms. The nail is irregular, from waves and grooves, becomes yellow or becomes brown, after delays.At the beginning of the defeat, the nails rollers with suppuration are thickened.
Prevention of nail mushrooms
The causal agent of the Wholenials is extremely tenacious.The fungal disputes do not die at temperatures up to +100c, resist the cold up to -60 ° C, survive after domestic chemicals for disinfection.
You can infect yourself in the changing rooms of a fitness or swimming pool club, in the locker room, in a hall of manicure, on the beach.
In about a third of cases, the infection comes from onychomycosis of relatives through articles for the common house: shoes, a towel, a cloth, etc.
Respect for simple rules prevents infection with the nail fungus spores:
- Walks on the beach only in slippers;
- In the pool and in the locker room, wear closed slippers;
- Use only your shoes;
- completely dry the wet shoes;
- Do not wear shoes where humidity has remained;
- Do not use porous rugs in the bathroom;
- Change socks every day;
- After the water procedures, thoroughly clean the legs, in particular between the fingers of the feet, elaborate the antifungal cream or the dust for prevention;
- Treat abrasions and scratches promptly;
- Use individual accessories for pedicure - saws, scissors, etc.;
- Strengthen immunity.
If one of the family members suffer from onychomicosis, treat the walls of the bathroom:
- Mix equal parts of chloramine with powder washing.
- Apply the composition for half an hour, then wash away.Only chloraminine can be used.
- The suffering fungal disease is used to use a separate Wash sheet, which after consumption immerses itself for an hour or more in a 5%chloramine solution.
- Socks, tights and other underwear bandered for 20 minutes in a 2% solution of a little soap, high temperature iron.
- After use, dry the scissors of manicure with alcohol, keep on the heat.
The mushroom of the nails infected 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 mushroom must take root.First of all, the disease affects the thumbs.During the year or more, the mushroom destroys the nail plate, its damage occurs with a change of color, thickening, the edges are crumbling.
Color change.A healthy, not influenced by a mushroom, the fog of the floor is transparent, the translucent capillaries give it a pink tint.The infection changes color in yellow, brown, black.Under the nail plate, a space is formed in which microbes and pathogens penetrate.
Thickening.The nail plate becomes thicker due to the increase in keratinization, which in advanced cases prevents the treatment of the mushroom.
Crushing.In the absence or incomplete treatment, the mushroom affects the entire thickness of the nail plate, is destroyed, painted.
If you do not adopt measures to treat nails from the whiskish, the disease goes in chronic form.After penetrating the body, the mushroom weakens immunity, causes allergic reactions, affects the internal organs.
Treatment of the nail fungus 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 result, the doctor prescribes antifungal drugs of internal use.
They penetrate the cells under the nail, deprive the mushroom of the ability to sprout more deeply.The treatment lasts one year or more.
Domestic nail fungus treatment
Propolis Ountment:
- Cool the propolis, grind and add vegetable oil to a heated at +60c, mix for 10 minutes, leave to cool, filter.Keep in the glass bowl.
To treat the nail fungus on the legs in the morning and in the evening, close with different layers of gauze, which to repair it with an adhesive plaster.
Propolis tinctures:
- Dissolve particles in alcohol at 90%, obtain the consistency of the ointment.
Apply with a thin layer, close the nails on the legs with waxed paper.Take the mushroom for two weeks.
Vinegar.
Recipe 1:
- Mix the alcohol tincture of iodine and apple cider vinegar in equal proportions.
To treat the nail fungus on the legs 2 times a day for 6 months.
Recipe 2:
- Add to 2S.L.Apple vinegar 10 drops of tea tree oil, a chopped clove of garlic, mix thoroughly.
Apply to the affected areas 2-3 times a day.
Recipe 3:
- Put the soap, salt, baking soda, steam in hot water.
- Cut the interested area of the nail with the manicure scissors up to a healthy part (the painless process).
- To apply an impregnated gauze with apple cider vinegar, correct with a bandage or adhesive plaster.
Repeat the treatment until a healthy pure nail begins to grow.
To exclude the infection itself, disinfect the shoes: clean with vinegar or a weak solution of chlorine from the inside.
Recipe 4:
- Put a fresh chicken egg in 150 ml of vinegar essence.When the egg dissolves, add 100 g of butter, beat the pasta.
Apply ointment at night.
Recipe 5:
- After three days, go up the half hour feet in the bathroom, 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 mix it with sweet almond oil.
Iodine:
- To treat the nail fungus every day in the morning and in the evening with the alcohol tincture of iodine.
The course is 20 days.
Ground coffee:
- Boil a strong coffee, let it cool.
I subtract the affected nails without shaking the sediment.
Tea mushroom:
- Correct a tea mushroom at night on a nail hit by a mushroom, enveloping with polyethylene, bandage, rinsing and lubricant with iodine in the morning.
After some procedures, a healthy nail begins to grow.
Popular remedies for the treatment of the nail fungus
The grass of San Giovanni:
- Take the nail fungus twice a day with fresh juice, you get bathrooms with infusion or decoction.
Ceilandi:
- Apply fresh juice to the fungal nail plates.
Ginger juice:
- Apply to a diagram hit by a mushroom, juice or a thin ginger plate.
At a time, perform several applications with a 5-10 minutes interval, without washing the juice with water.
Burn butter:
- Place a slightly natural butter on the window sill - after two weeks, a tool for the treatment of the nail mushroom on the legs is ready.
Apply at night, close the nail plates with polyethylene.
Salt, soda For the treatment of the nail fungus:
- Dissolve 1l 3 g of table salt in hot water, 5 g of sodium bicarbonate.
Place the feet for 20 minutes, in the end, rinse.
Oak bark, eucalyptus:
- Brown 3S.L.Court of Quercia, 2S.L.Eucalyptus leaves in boiling water 1L, insist, effort.
Add to hot water, the duration of the bathroom for 20 minutes.