How to treat thickened toenails

Everyone should check whether their toenails are normal. Some people's toenails have become thicker, but they don't care too much about it. They think that their feet are often worn in shoes and they can't see it. Even if there is any abnormal phenomenon, they don't pay attention to it. In fact, everyone should pay attention to thick toenails in time and seek treatment in time. If not treated, it will affect other toenails. So how to treat thickened toenails?

Thickened toenails are generally caused by fungal infection, but people rarely pay attention to some abnormal phenomena in their toenails. However, this often indicates that there are some diseases in our body, and we must check it out in time. So how to treat thickened toenails?

The main reasons for thickening of nails are as follows:

1. Chronic respiratory, thyroid or lymph gland diseases can cause nail growth to slow down, and the nails to become thicker, harder, and yellow or yellow-green.

2. Onychomycosis. Onychomycosis first manifests as irregular small white spots on the distal nail plate surface, which then turn into dull gray spots and gradually turn into yellow-brown and then black. Soon the nail plate deteriorates, keratinous debris accumulates under the nail, and the nail bed thickens.

What to do if your toenails become thick?

(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 such as griseofulvin, fluconazole, itraconazole (Sporanox), etc. 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.

(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. Use pure Chinese medicine bath therapy (for external use) to treat onychomycosis (tinea manuum and tinea pedis). The main ingredients include: Chinese herbal medicines such as Smilax glabra, Sophora flavescens, Dictyophora indica, Bombyx batryticatus, Whole worm, Centipede, and White Flower Snake. Use large doses and high concentrations, and wash and soak for more than 20 minutes each time. The treatment is carried out by soaking the hands and feet locally (generally the entire nail plate needs to be soaked) to allow the drug to penetrate deep into the nail plate and the stratum corneum of the skin, completely killing all fungi that are parasitic in the stratum corneum of the nail plate and the surrounding skin, so that the onychomycosis can be treated as a whole and cured, eliminating the occurrence of recurrence. Patients with onychomycosis can grow new nails at the base of their fingers after taking the medication for fifteen to twenty days. Continue taking the medication until all the new nails have grown out and all the diseased nails have been cut off. The disease is then eliminated and cured, and there will be no side effects during the treatment.

Don't ignore the issue of how to treat thickened toenails. Some people do not pay attention to the phenomenon of thickened toenails. If allowed to develop, there will be some other hazards. You should know that there are many reasons for thickened toenails, some are congenital, some are caused by tinea pedis, and some are caused by chronic diseases and age problems. You should seek treatment in time. Avoid the occurrence of certain diseases.