What are the early symptoms of onychomycosis?

If you want to know whether you have onychomycosis, you can judge by understanding some of its early symptoms. Usually, the patient's nail surface will tend to thicken, and the surface is uneven, or the nails will curl up and separate from the nail bed, which are all symptoms of onychomycosis.

The most common cause of onychomycosis is Trichophyton rubrum; there are two types of onychomycosis. One manifestation is white nails, which often starts from the root of the nail. Small white spots appear on the surface of the nail plate and gradually expand, causing the nail plate to soften and sink. Another type of damage starts from the free edge and side wall of the nail, causing small depressions or transverse grooves on the nail plate, and gradually develops until the nail plate becomes brittle, easy to break, thickened, and brown inside. The accumulation of debris under the nail often causes the nail to become hollow, lift up and separate from the nail bed, and the surface of the nail plate to be uneven, rough and dull.

Turbidity . After the onychomycosis fungus invades the nail plate or nail bed, due to the rapid reproduction of a large number of hyphae and spores, a large amount of keratin accumulates on the nail bed. When viewed with the naked eye, the nail plate becomes turbid and opaque. Therefore, onychomycosis is commonly known as gray nails (toes).

The surface of the nails is uneven because there is accumulation of keratin on the nail plate or under the nail plate, and the nail plate is damaged, making the surface of the nail plate rough, uneven and dull. This unevenness may be either longitudinal or transverse. At the same time, it can also be understood that the main lesions of diseased nails are under the nail plate.