What to do if your toenails are hollow? It turns out there are three solutions

Hollow toenails are a condition that many people have experienced. Although some of them are not painful or itchy and do not affect people's normal life, they always look scary. So how to deal with hollow toenails? Let’s take a closer look at three ways to solve hollow toenails!

There are many treatment methods currently, which can be divided into three categories:

(1) Surgical nail removal: The affected nail is removed under local anesthesia. This method causes large wounds, bleeding, and is prone to infection. Generally, people will feel more pain after the operation. However, since it only treats the symptoms but not the root cause, the results are usually not ideal and it is easy for the infection to recur. Moreover, patients with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, etc. are not suitable for surgical treatment.

(2) Oral medication: Simply taking antifungal drugs has a certain therapeutic effect and is convenient. However, because this type of drug must reach the deck where the fungus is parasitic to exert its antibacterial effect, and because its solubility in water is low and slow, and its absorption and metabolism are very fast, the dosage is large and the use time is long. In addition, oral medications have side effects and are prone to relapse after discontinuation of medication, so they are not suitable as a routine treatment for onychomycosis. If it is confirmed to be onychomycosis, it is recommended to seek treatment under the guidance of a doctor.

(3) Topical therapy: Topical therapy is generally used to treat onychomycosis. Depending on the different agents, there are mainly soaking, local application of medication, and packing and scraping. The treatment requires the removal of the diseased nail, so it is generally not as convenient as oral administration, but it is safe, painless and has no side effects. As long as the medicine is selected properly, the effect will be ideal.

Toenails are very important to us. If your toenails become hollow, you must not ignore it and let it develop. Not only should you pay attention to avoiding your toenails from contacting the source of infection and recurrence in your daily life, but as long as you find out the cause and go to the hospital in time, your toenails will definitely return to their healthy state.

There are many reasons for the hollow toenails. It may be caused by inflammatory diseases of the patient's feet, or it may be caused by onychomycosis. Therefore, it is best to go to a regular hospital in time to find out the condition and cause of the disease in time, and to formulate reasonable solutions based on the specific symptoms. We should pay attention to keeping our toenails clean and healthy on a daily basis, and prevent bacteria or viruses from infecting our toenails. We should usually use hot water to soak our feet, which has a certain effect on alleviating the symptoms.