Can onychomycosis be contagious to other people?

Onychomycosis is common in people with diabetes, malnutrition, and low immunity. Its cause is largely related to personal neglect of hygiene, women wearing high heels and manicures, and men wearing non-breathable leather shoes. Environmental factors: High temperature and high humidity can also easily lead to onychomycosis. Whether onychomycosis is contagious is a question that people are very concerned about.

Regarding the question of whether onychomycosis is contagious, the answer is yes. Onychomycosis, commonly known as onychomycosis, is a superficial fungal infection caused by pathogenic fungi infecting the nails and subungual tissues, commonly known as onychomycosis. Onychomycosis is caused by infection with pathogenic microorganisms and is contagious to a certain extent. It can be transmitted through contact, to oneself or to others. Patients with onychomycosis must avoid shaking hands with others and do a good job of disinfection and isolation in daily life.

The dangers of onychomycosis

1. Etiquette embarrassment: In daily life, the most frequently exposed parts are the face and hands, and it is even more embarrassing in the workplace.

2. Limit job choices: Because onychomycosis affects appearance, some jobs that require a high level of image are often not accepted.

3. Source of fungal infection: Onychomycosis is highly contagious, and family members and friends may be infected through close contact.

4. Affecting the appearance: the deck becomes thicker, brittle, delaminated, broken, the middle layer of the deck is hollowed out, the edge of the deck is uneven, and the deck is incomplete, which seriously affects the appearance.

5. Psychological disorders: Long-term ineffective treatment often causes patients to feel embarrassed and frustrated, and coupled with various influences, they suffer psychological damage.

6. Many complications: Once subjected to various traumas, complications such as paronychia, onychoderma, and pyoderma of the fingers may occur. A disease that causes patients to develop severe systemic symptoms such as erysipelas or cellulitis.

Transmission

As a result of fungal cross-infection, onychomycosis can easily lead to a high family transmission rate. According to statistics, about 30% to 40% of the family members of onychomycosis patients in China have fungal infections on the feet. Recently, there was a case of a "fungal family" in which both parents had been infected with onychomycosis for many years, but had never sought medical treatment. As the disease spread from family member to family member, eventually even their children were attacked by fungi. Huizhiping has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispelling wind and removing dampness. It only needs to be applied on the body surface, and the medicinal effect will reach the lesions, kill pathogenic fungi and repair damaged nails.

Onychomycosis is a chronic fungal infection that requires active treatment. People often ignore the seriousness of onychomycosis and only discover onychomycosis on their hands and feet when they are receiving outpatient treatment for fungal infections in other parts of the body. Many of these patients are infected from their own family members.

Since onychomycosis is not an individual disease, in the case of cross-fungal infection, it will also affect family members around you. If there are relatives or friends around you suffering from onychomycosis, you must pay attention to the patient's personal hygiene and actively seek medical treatment to avoid expanding the infection.