Causes of Thick Toenails

Thick toenails may be caused by toenail malnutrition or onychomycosis, so the patient should check the condition of the toenails. If the toenails are very thick due to onychomycosis, you can usually use a knife to scrape off the loose part of the toenails, and then apply some glacial acetic acid solution. I hope that patients with thickened toenails can pay attention to this.

The nails become thick and yellow, suggesting a fungal infection. It is recommended to soak the thumb nail in edible white vinegar (not the good kind, the kind sold in supermarkets for 1 yuan a bag) for 1 month, and there will be very good results. Because white vinegar can kill fungi. But later the bruised nail gradually grew back. The bruised nail fell off by itself, and the new nail grew out the same as the original one before it was hit, except that it was a little soft at first, but became hard as time went by. So, I think your toenail looks like a fungal infection. Try white vinegar.

The traditional treatment for onychomycosis is to scrape the brittle diseased nail with a knife before taking the medicine, or to thin the diseased nail, and then apply 5% iodine tincture or 10-30% glacial acetic acid solution. This method must be persisted for at least one year to be effective. Many patients often interrupt treatment due to the color of iodine, the smell of glacial acetic acid and the long course of treatment. In addition, the dense structure of the nail itself hinders the penetration of topical drugs, so the cure rate of topical drugs alone is low, and it is currently mainly used in combination with oral medications. If it is combined with oral antifungal drugs such as itraconazole, the therapeutic effect will be better.

Your toenails have become very thick and are layered. I think it's onychomycosis, commonly known as onychomycosis. Considering that you are only 21 years old, onychomycosis occurring at this age is usually accompanied by athlete's foot. The cause is mostly the original fungal microorganisms on the toenails that infect and reproduce and cannot be eliminated.

Regarding the symptoms of thick toenails introduced in the article, we recommend that everyone should understand them well in life so that we can restore the health of our toenails. If the thickening of toenails is caused by fungal infection, we recommend that you use white vinegar to sterilize and eliminate thick toenails.