Looking for the secret recipe to eradicate onychomycosis

1. Surgical nail removal

Suitable for single-shot nails, the affected nail will be removed under local anesthesia. This method involves large wounds, bleeding, and easy infection. After surgery, you will generally feel more pain, and it is easy to re-infection and recurrence, so it is rarely used in clinical practice. Patients with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. are not suitable for surgical treatment.

2. Oral medication

Suitable for multiple nails. For example, take 250 mg of terbinafine tablets daily for 6 to 12 weeks; take itraconazole 400 mg/day for 7 days with 21 days of rest as one course of treatment, lasting 3 to 6 courses; 1 to 2 weeks per week Take fluconazole 150mg every time for more than 4 months. It can cure more than 80% of onychomycosis and onychomycosis. However, because this type of drug must reach the deck where the fungi live to exert its antibacterial effect, the dosage is large and the medication time is long, so adverse drug reactions should be monitored regularly.

3. External therapy

Depending on the different agents, the main methods include local application and encapsulation and cutting.

(1) Use a nail file (non-professionals should not use blades to avoid bleeding and infection of other diseases) to thin the irregular nails. The polishing cycle is preferably once every 2 days;

< p> (2) Apply 30% glacial acetic acid externally or soak the infected nail with 10% glacial acetic acid, once a day for more than 3 to 6 months. If the nail is thinned before applying the medicine, the effect will be better. Before applying nail polish, be sure to use mild ointments to protect the skin around your nails;

(3) Choose topical antifungal products such as terbinafine tincture, amorolfine nail polish, ciclopirox nail polish, etc. Apply the medicine topically.

In short, you must be persistent in treating onychomycosis. At the same time, you should also actively treat ringworm and chronic systemic diseases in other parts of the body, improve your own resistance, and pay equal attention to prevention and treatment, so that it is possible to completely cure onychomycosis. I hope the above suggestions can be helpful to you. Thank you.