What are the causes of onychomycosis?

Onychomycosis is a common disease caused by fungal infection, and there are many reasons for onychomycosis infection. For example, when the human body's immunity is relatively poor, it is easy to be infected by fungi. If you often live in humid and high-temperature areas, it is also easy to cause such a disease. If there are onychomycosis patients at home or among friends, you are also prone to such bacterial infection.

1. Individual immune function is not sound enough

Why are some people in the same environment particularly susceptible to onychomycosis and tinea pedis, and why are the diseases more difficult to eliminate and more likely to expand or spread? This may be related to the individual's physical constitution. Some people with imperfect immune function are particularly susceptible to onychomycosis and tinea pedis. For example, patients with cancer, diabetes, AIDS, and many elderly and frail people have a much higher incidence of onychomycosis than ordinary people due to differences in immunity.

2. Often occurs in hot and humid areas

Like other ringworm diseases, onychomycosis often occurs in hot and humid areas. In addition to geographical factors, there are also personal factors, such as not paying attention to personal hygiene, wearing tight clothes and non-breathable shoes, old age and physical weakness, etc. Onychomycosis patients often do not pay attention to the transmission routes and can transmit tinea corporis, tinea cruris, etc. through scratching or minor trauma. Many patients often infect their hands by directly touching the feet with onychomycosis or tinea pedis with their hands.

3. Close contact with family or friends

There is also a chance of direct transmission through close contact with family members or friends. Various contacts in social interactions, such as shaking hands, using banknotes, holding car armrests, and picking up the phone, can transmit pathogenic fungi to the skin of healthy people, becoming an important channel of infection; it can also easily turn public places, such as bathrooms, swimming pools, dormitories, dance halls, etc., into bases for the spread of ringworm.

4. Contact in social settings

Shaking hands, using banknotes, holding car armrests, and picking up the phone can also transmit pathogenic fungi to the skin of healthy people, which is an important transmission channel; various public places, such as bathrooms, swimming pools, dormitories, dance halls, etc., have become bases for the spread of ringworm.

Although onychomycosis is a chronic infection, we are often exposed to many fungi. Therefore, we must not underestimate onychomycosis, but we can do a good job of prevention. In the process of daily life, we must develop good living habits and wash our hands frequently. Only in this way can we reduce the chance of infection.