What should I do if I have some onychomycosis?

Onychomycosis is a very common skin disease in today's society, and it is also contagious. Therefore, when you suffer from onychomycosis, you will find that other people are deliberately alienating themselves. Not only are you tortured by the disease, but you are also psychologically hit hard. At present, there are many drugs for treating onychomycosis, but the efficacy is very general. So what should you do if you have a little onychomycosis?

How should onychomycosis be treated? This is a question that many patients want to know. The symptoms of onychomycosis generally include graying and thickening, yellowing and blackening, delamination and breaking, lack of luster of nails, and detachment of the nail plate and nail bed. Suffering from onychomycosis will seriously affect your image. It is important to adopt correct and effective onychomycosis treatment methods in a timely manner. At the same time, patients also need to have enough knowledge about onychomycosis. Many patients feel that they are cured after receiving treatment, so they give up treatment on their own and wait until onychomycosis recurs to take medication. Experts point out that if this continues for a long time, the fungus will develop drug resistance and drug tolerance, making onychomycosis more and more difficult to treat.

Why can't general topical medications cure onychomycosis? This is not because the medication is ineffective, but on the contrary it is due to the characteristics of the nails themselves. The fungus not only infects the nail plate, but also deep in the nail bed. Clinical studies have shown that the dense structure of the nails themselves hinders the penetration of topical medications. Even if the fungi in the nail plate are eliminated, the fungi in the nail bed still exist and will invade the nail plate again after a period of time. Therefore, the effect of treating onychomycosis with topical medications alone is poor. Therefore, we need to use methods or drugs that treat both the symptoms and the root cause.

The above content introduced by the editor is the best method to treat onychomycosis. Since each person’s situation is different, you should not use drugs indiscriminately. It is best to undergo targeted treatment under the guidance of a doctor after examination in a regular hospital. In addition, we must not only learn how to treat onychomycosis, but also learn how to prevent onychomycosis, so as to avoid the pain caused by the disease.