What should I do if my nails are damaged? How should I treat them?

If your nails are damaged, you should first find out the cause. If the damage or death is caused directly by external force, anti-inflammatory work needs to be done and the nail may need to be removed. If it is caused by onychomycosis, some topical medications will be needed for treatment.

1. Oral medication

Oral medication is one treatment option for onychomycosis. However, because this type of drug must meet the requirements of parasitic fungi on the bridge surface to exert its antibacterial effect, the demand is large and the medication time is long, it is easy to cause imbalance of normal flora, and the side effects will damage the liver and kidneys, and relapse after stopping the drug. We think oral medications are not very useful.

2. Apply medicine externally

There are also topical medications available as treatments for nail loss. However, it is difficult for general topical medications to penetrate into the nail bed to completely kill the bacteria, and the treatment time is long. Over time, drug resistance will occur and the disease is prone to relapse. In addition, when the feet are warmed in shoes, the medication will become ineffective once you sweat, causing great inconvenience in daily life. Applying topical medication is not a treatment for onychomycosis on feet.

3. Folk remedies

Using folk remedies as a treatment for nail shedding, such as covering crushed garlic and soaking in white vinegar as a treatment for onychomycosis on the feet, is not effective for everyone and can easily lead to infection.

4. Pulling out the nails

How to treat falling toenails? Is nail extraction a treatment for falling nails? Nail extraction causes large wounds and bleeding, which can easily lead to infection and damage the nail bed. In addition, nail extraction is painful and affects walking. It only treats the symptoms and not the root cause, and is prone to recurrence of infection. The treatment for onychomycosis of the feet should not be to remove the nail.