Is iodine effective in treating onychomycosis?

Is iodine tincture effective in treating onychomycosis? This is something that many patients with onychomycosis will fully understand. If onychomycosis is not treated as soon as possible, it will seriously affect their health. Therefore, many people want to fully understand the effect of iodine tincture in treating onychomycosis. The following is a detailed introduction so that you can fully understand it.

Povidone-iodine is an amorphous combination of elemental iodine and polyvinylpyrrolidone. It is a purple-black liquid. Medical povidone-iodine usually has a low concentration (1% or less) and is light brown in color.

Iodine tincture has a bactericidal effect and can kill bacterial vegetative bodies, fungi, protozoa and some viruses. It is used as a bactericidal disinfectant in medicine. It can be used to disinfect the skin and mucous membranes, treat burns, and treat trichomoniasis, candidal vaginitis, and fungal skin infections. It can also be used for pre-operative and other skin disinfection, skin disinfection of various injection sites, instrument immersion disinfection, and pre-vaginal surgery disinfection.

But one thing is worth noting:

Although iodine tincture has a bactericidal effect, because our nails have a dense layer, it is difficult for general drugs to penetrate into the nail bed, or the amount of penetration is very small, so the effect of killing pathogenic bacteria on the nail bed is much worse. Usually, patients will find that the symptoms of onychomycosis are relieved after using it for a period of time, but this does not mean that the onychomycosis is cured. As long as you stop using it for a period of time, the pathogenic bacteria on the nail bed will multiply in large numbers, and the symptoms of onychomycosis will become more obvious. This will repeatedly cause great trouble to patients.

Because onychomycosis is contagious, as the treatment process is prolonged and the condition worsens, the pathogenic bacteria can be transmitted to other healthy skin due to scratching, sharing nail clippers, etc., causing diseases such as tinea corporis and tinea cruris, or causing family members to have onychomycosis.

Therefore, if you have onychomycosis, you should go to a regular hospital in time for standardized and targeted treatment. Remember not to make blind judgments or blind treatments.

If you have onychomycosis, you must pay attention to it. Through the above introduction, I believe you have already understood whether iodine tincture is effective in treating onychomycosis? Iodine tincture has bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects, but in the treatment of onychomycosis, its effect is relatively mild. Therefore, the effect of only using iodine tincture to treat onychomycosis is particularly poor. It is recommended to go to the hospital and use the correct treatment method to recover from your onychomycosis as soon as possible through treatment.