What happens if onychomycosis becomes serious?

Onychomycosis is a very special modern disease because it can cause the patient's nails to mutate, change nail color, and induce more serious nail problems. Onychomycosis is highly contagious and can easily lead to mass outbreaks, and severe onychomycosis can cause pain to people. For example, what happens if onychomycosis becomes serious? Let’s take a look at the explanation below, I hope everyone can understand it.

1. The nail plate becomes brittle and easy to break: As fungi invade the nail plate and nail bed, the keratin is dissolved under the action of keratinase, forming tiny keratin particles. The damaged nail plate lacks elasticity and toughness and becomes brittle. The keratin particles are in powdery form, easy to fall off, loose and become fragmented. 2. Nail stratification: The thickened keratin becomes dry, fragmented and brittle, and it is easy to fall off from between the nail plate and the nail bed, making the surface layer of the nail, which was originally bonded to the finger flesh, hollow. That is, the nail is divided into two layers, the surface layer is separated from the finger flesh, and another thin layer of nail is separated and adheres to the finger flesh.

3. Discoloration: Fungal accumulation on or under the deck. Different fungal hyphae or spores can have colors themselves. Diseased, thickened nail plates may also show color. The keratin under the diseased nail falls off, allowing dirt to enter and take on color. When the deck is damaged and debris falls off, it will also take on color. It can be dirty gray, brown, white, yellow, black, etc. 4. Warping of the nail plate : Fungi and hyperplastic keratin accumulate in large quantities under the nail plate, causing the distal end of the nail plate to be significantly higher and appear to be warped. At this time, the diseased nail becomes thicker, more turbid, and the discoloration is more obvious. The curled toenail plate affects the wearing of shoes and seriously affects the quality of life.

5. Deck atrophy: The deck is destroyed by fungal hyphae and spores. The proliferating keratin falls off from the surface layer in the form of fragments and is finally completely eroded, leaving only a few deck stumps. 6. Deck shedding: The deck is destroyed by fungal hyphae and spores, becoming brittle, fragmented, and proliferating. The accumulated keratin falls off the surface of the deck, and finally the deck falls off completely, leaving only the residual roots. At this point the deck has lost all functionality.

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