What to do if your toenails are too thick

The most common reason for thickening toenails is onychomycosis. Fungal infection can cause lesions in the nails, which will continue to thicken and become particularly fragile. At this time, good treatment should be carried out in time. The best treatment is to apply some ointments externally, which have a good bactericidal effect. If it is not caused by onychomycosis, it may also be due to age. As age increases, toenails will also become thicker. In addition, you should also be alert to some chronic diseases, such as respiratory diseases, thyroid diseases, etc.

1. Onychomycosis Most of the time, the reason for thickening of toenails is due to onychomycosis. After being infected with onychomycosis, the fungus can easily enter the nail bed or nail plate and reproduce rapidly, causing the nails to become thicker and the accumulation of the stratum corneum to increase. Generally, toenails caused by onychomycosis become 1 to 3 times thicker than normal nail plates. If onychomycosis is not treated promptly, the toenails will become thicker and thicker, eventually causing the nail plate to fall off. It may also cause athlete's foot, making it more difficult to cure.

2. Age problem: Thickening of toenails is more common among the elderly. The reason for this is that the metabolism of the cuticle that makes up the nails slows down with age, causing the toenails to thicken. There is no special treatment, just pay attention to foot hygiene.

3. Pachyonychia Pachyonychia, known as thick nail disease in traditional Chinese medicine, has clinical symptoms of the nail plate becoming noticeably thickened, enlarged, hardened, brittle, dull, and easily cracked. Generally, the nail plate becomes thicker, yellower and wedge-shaped, with the thickest edge at the front of the nail. The nail is hard and brittle, and the distal end of the nail may curl up due to accumulation under the nail. Pachyonychia can be treated in the hospital and is not contagious.

4. Chronic diseases: Chronic respiratory, thyroid or lymph gland diseases may lead to poor circulatory system, affecting blood supply to the extremities, causing slow growth of toenails, accumulation of keratinization in the stratum corneum, and thickening of toenails. In this situation, it is most important to improve the body's overall disease resistance, which makes it possible to completely cure chronic diseases.

5. Hyperkeratotic tinea pedis Hyperkeratotic tinea pedis is one of the causes of thickening of toenails. As the toenails thicken, most of the soles of the feet will become diffusely red. This type of thickening of toenails is accompanied by thickening, roughening of the skin, and deepening of the skin wrinkles.

6. Congenital thickening of toenails . Congenital thickening of toenails. The toenails turn yellow-green. The toenails are thick and extremely hard. Not only are the toenails thickened, but they are also excessively curved, with free edges that are barrel-shaped or horseshoe-shaped. All toenails may show symptoms of thickening of toenails, and they will still become thicker if they grow again after falling off.