Fungal Nail Infections Symptoms
Posted: Tuesday, May 04, 2010
by Vita Li
Symptoms of fungal nail infections vary. Your symptoms will depend on the type of infection you have. An infection can cause discomfort but is usually not painful. Athlete's foot is often present. Distal subungual onychomycosis, the most common fungal nail infection, is caused by dermatophytes. It affects both the nail and the skin underneath the nail.
White superficial onychomycosis is a fungal infection of the nail surface. It is the second most common fungal nail infection and is also caused by dermatophytes. Symptoms include white spots or streaks on the nail surface; soft and powdery nail surface, as the infection gets worse; damaged, crumbly, and brown or gray nail surface.
But the nail does not separate from the skin underneath. Two other types of fungal nail infections are uncommon. Candida onychomycosis is a yeast infection of the nails. Proximal subungual onychomycosis accounts for about 3% of all fungal nail infections. But it is more common in people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Only about 50% of all nail infections are fungal infections. Conditions with similar symptoms are as following. Darier disease is an inherited skin disease in which the skin slowly hardens. Eczema is a long-lasting skin disorder that may result in thickened and scaly skin. When it occurs on the hands, it may look like a fungal infection of a fingernail. Lichen planus is an uncommon, recurring skin disease that results in itchy, shiny, reddish purple spots on the skin.
Norwegian scabies is a rare and severe form of scabies. Pachyonychia is a very thick fingernail or toenail. Psoriasis is a long-lasting skin condition that causes raised red or white patches topped with silvery, scaling skin. The patches can appear on the nails. But the pitting of the nails that occurs in psoriasis does not happen in fungal nail infections. Reiter's syndrome is a bacterial infection that may result in changes of the nails.
Most doctors erroneously believe that nail fungus is only treatable via oral medicines, and quickly reach for their prescription pads to treat nail fungus infections. In doing so, one of the following drugs is most likely to be prescribed: Itraconazole, Fluconazole, Terfinabine. It is true that treatment of nail fungus is indeed a challenge because the infection is embedded within the nail and is difficult to reach.
As a result, full removal of symptoms via current prescription medications is very slow and may take a year or more. Of course, there are always possibilities of side effects with these medications, including headaches, stomach disorder, and the ever present issue with Rx medications -- liver damage. Further, mixing these with other drugs can be extremely dangerous.
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Further, the antifungal properties of the treatment dramatically reduce and block life supporting enzymes of the fungi. The antifungal properties of NailFungusCure enable it to actually destroy the cell membrane of fungus and kill it. The antifungal agents in NailFungusCure work by killing off the fungal organism without causing any dangerous side effects to the human host.
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