If you often go to the salon to do your nail care, you have to be careful. Nail fungus can be transmitted through nail care equipment that is not clean, such as scissors and foot soak tub. Normally, healthy nails look soft and have a consistent color.
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Causes and Symptoms of Nail Fungus
Abnormalities in the nails of the hands and feet can provide information about your health condition. The disorder may be an infection or a nail injury. However, sometimes abnormalities that appear on the nail can also indicate a more serious health disorder.A common infection of the nail is a fungal infection. Medically, nail fungus is known as onychomycosis (onychomycosis) or tinea unguium. Some of the signs that you are exposed to nail fungus infections include nails become brittle, nails change color to whitish or yellowish, nails become red or black due to blood clots (hematoma) under the nails, brown nails due to psoriasis, swelling and redness on the skin around the nail called paronychia and repeated and chronic trauma to the nail.
Usually, fungal nail infections begin from the tip of the nail, then spread to the middle. Nails change color and are easily removed or peeled off. Nail infections cause the nails to become brittle, and cause pain and swelling of the skin around the nail.
Mushrooms are normally present on your body, and can flourish in a warm and humid environment. Nail fungus infection occurs due to the growth of excess mushrooms in your nails. The fungus that infects the nail can come from a mushroom that is already present in or on the surface of your body. In addition, the fungus can also come from other people infected with fungi.
Some people are at high risk for nail fungus infections, such as people with diabetes, people with blood circulation disorders, over 65, using artificial nails, swimming in public swimming pools, nail injuries, skin injuries around the nails, or feet in damp for a long time, have a weakened immune system, and wear completely closed shoes such as tennis shoes or boots.
Nail Fungus Not the Same with Leather Mushrooms
If you consider the nail fungus and skin fungus to be the same, you are wrong. Nail fungus and skin fungus are very different, as well as in the treatment. This distinction other than of course lies in the location where the fungus is located, also in the fungi the cause and symptoms are caused.Nail fungus infections are usually caused by dermatophytic fungi, while the skin fungus is caused by the candida fungus.
For skin fungus, some of the symptoms that occur are the rash, cracks in the skin, pain, the incidence of red and white lesions, and others. As for nail fungus, symptoms such as nails appear thick, brittle, dull and not shining, and the dark color under your nails.
In addition, skin fungi tend to be more common in infants and overweight people, whereas nail fungus is more common in adults than in children. Leather fungus also tends to cause itching, whereas fungal nail infections usually do not cause pain and itching.
Treatment of skin fungus can usually use over-the-counter medicines, for example by using ketoconazole or clotrimazole drugs, as well as antifungal drugs such as azoles and mikonazole. Most of these drugs will be used once or twice a day.
As for fungal nail infections, you can use antifungal medicines, such as antifungals in the form of nail varnish or topical solution for nails containing lactic acid, propylene glycol and urea. Treatment of nail fungus also depends heavily on the type of fungus that causes the infection, as well as the severity of the infection that occurs.
If the infection is very severe, the doctor will usually prescribe an antifungal medication such as terbinafine, itraconazole, fluconazole, griseofulvin.
Nail conditions can reflect your hygiene and health. Therefore, treat your nails well in order to look clean, healthy and beautiful. Some of these ways can make your nails look healthy and beautiful, including:
- Do not cut the cultic (a thin layer of dead on the edge of the nail), because the kultikula is a natural barrier of fungi and bacteria. By cutting it off, make the protection disappear.
- Use nail-hardener to taste or not at all.
- Moisturize the nails and kultikulanya, especially after cleaning the nail polish. Because most nail polish cleaners contain chemicals that dry the nails.
- Consumption of biotin supplements, which are part of vitamin B. This can increase the thickness of the nails and prevent nail damage.
- Limit professional nail care. This is because exposure to chemicals can make the nails become dry and brittle. If you must and accustomed to go to the nail salon, make sure some things such as the experience or license of nurses and nail polish, hand hygiene of nail nurses, and also the cleanliness of the tools used.
- Avoid acetone-based nail polish remover, as it can make your nails become brittle.
- Do not wash hands often and limit the use of cleaning agents containing chemicals.
- Do not bite nails.
- Routine cutting nails of hands and feet with nail clippers or manicure scissors. Do not forget to smooth the tip of the nail with sandpaper nails. The best time to do this is after a shower, when the nail is softer.
To prevent fungal nail infections or damage that may appear on your nails, you are advised to be more careful in caring for them. If you have abnormal symptoms on your nails, consult your doctor immediately for proper treatment.