I'm anxious. Is this onychomycosis?

Onychomycosis, commonly known as "onychomycosis", refers to diseases caused by skin fungi invading the deck or under nails. Onychomycosis is a nail infection caused by dermatophytes, yeasts and non-dermatophytes. There are two common types of onychomycosis: ① fungal onychomycosis (superficial onychomycosis), which is confined to the nail surface or nail tip; ② Hyponychial mycosis can be divided into distal lateral type, proximal hypothyroidism type and pale white type. This type of lesion starts from both sides or distal ends of the nail, and then infection occurs under the deck.

Onychomycosis is one of the most refractory dermatophytes. It can be used orally, externally or surgically.

External therapy

According to different drugs, the main methods are local application and blocking treatment.

(1) Use nail file (non-professionals should not use blades to avoid bleeding and other diseases) to trim irregular broken nails, and it is best to polish them once every two days;

(2) Soak infected nails with 30% glacial acetic acid or 10% glacial acetic acid once a day for more than 3 ~ 6 months. If the diseased nail is thinned before application, the curative effect will be better. Pay attention to protect the skin around nails with mild ointment before painting nails;

(3) Topical antifungal drugs, such as terbinafine tincture, Amodol A liniment and ciclopirox A liniment, are selected for local application.

In short, the treatment of onychomycosis should be persistent. At the same time, we should actively treat tinea corporis and chronic systemic diseases in other parts of the body, improve our own resistance, and pay equal attention to prevention and treatment, so that it is possible to completely cure onychomycosis.