Recipes for treating onychomycosis, timely treatment to avoid infection

Onychomycosis is a fungal disease that can change the structure and color of nails and can be transmitted to other nails. Some folk remedies can be used to treat onychomycosis. Pay attention to personal hygiene and avoid fungal infections. Patients should eat a light diet.

1. Folk remedies for treating onychomycosis

1. Crush the garlic and add vinegar to apply to the affected area

Take 4 to 5 cloves of garlic, peel and mash them, put them in a clean glass bottle, add 100 ml of good quality vinegar, and soak for 3 to 4 days to make vinegar and garlic liquid. Soak the affected area in vinegar and garlic solution for 15 minutes, then

Dip a cotton ball in the vinegar and garlic solution and wrap it on the affected area. Take twice a day, morning and evening, until all symptoms disappear.

2. Vinegar

Drug preparation

Take 20 cloves of garlic, remove the skin, chop or mash them, and put them in a wide-mouthed glass bottle with a stopper. Add 150 ml of 10% acetic acid (vinegar can also be used instead), soak for one day, and then it can be used.

Treatment

Soak the diseased nail in warm water for 5 minutes to soften the nail, use scissors to cut off or scrape off the diseased nail that can be removed, and insert the diseased nail into the garlic extract and soak it for 15 minutes. Take it 3 times a day and you will see results in a week. If not cured, another course of treatment can be given according to the above method.

To save time, you can also apply garlic extract on the diseased nails with cotton swabs, soak or apply garlic extract. Sometimes the diseased nail may feel a little painful, but you should persevere. Garlic extract can be stored for a long time and used repeatedly. This method is also effective in treating tinea pedis (athlete's foot).

3. Use a cotton ball to apply a mixture of tea tree oil and lavender oil to your nails

Do this 3 to 4 times a day. This remedy is said to be effective in treating nail fungus.

4. Impatiens treatment

Mash the white Impatiens balsamina, apply it on the nails and bandage them, changing the bandage once a day. It will take about a month to see the effect. Use 2-3 white Impatiens balsamina, soak them in vinegar for a day, and soak them for 10 minutes before going to bed.

minutes without adding water. Effective after 7 consecutive days.

2. Causes of onychomycosis

1. Pathogenic bacteria

The pathogens of onychomycosis can be roughly divided into three categories: dermatophytes, yeasts and fungi other than dermatophytes. Dermatophytes can be divided into: Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, and Epidermophyton floccosum; yeasts are mainly Candida parapsilosis and Candida albicans; molds can be divided into: Acremonium, Aspergillus, Canadian mold, Scopulariopsis brevis, Dark-colored Columnar Acremonium, and Colorless Columnar Acremonium. Onychomycosis is mainly caused by dermatophyte infection, among which Trichophyton rubrum infection is the most common.

2. Precipitating factors

(1) Environmental factors

The environment also affects the incidence of onychomycosis. Generally speaking, the incidence of onychomycosis increases in warmer and more humid seasons. This is because in a humid environment, onychomycosis bacteria are more likely to resurrect and multiply, thus affecting the health of our feet. Of course, onychomycosis is still possible even in cold and dry seasons.

(2) Personal factors

For people who do not pay attention to personal hygiene for a long time, wearing non-breathable shoes or not changing socks frequently, etc., will provide a warm, humid and dark growth environment for fungi. In addition, if the nails are injured or impacted, the wound must be treated properly. Once fungi invade the gap, onychomycosis is not far away.

Wearing non-breathable shoes or not changing socks frequently will provide a warm, moist, and dark growth environment for fungi.

(3) Disease factors

Onychomycosis infection has a certain relationship with tinea pedis and tinea manuum. Many patients often suffer from tinea pedis first and then get infected with onychomycosis. Onychomycosis also has a certain relationship with the body's immune function. For example, when patients with diabetes, AIDS, and long-term and excessive use of corticosteroids and immunosuppressants, the incidence of this disease is high and the disease is severe.