A fungal infection of the foot – insidious, not directly I can see the first symptoms of the disease. It is known, that cause fungi do not manifest themselves for a long period of time, to ascertain the presence of the disease is almost impossible.
In most cases, the fungus appears on the feet. The cause of the is visiting in public showers, saunas or baths. The disease occurs after clothes in someone else's shoes, you do not risk once again, health, you abide by the general rules of hygiene. Fungal diseases often catch up to people with a weakened immune system or patients who have chronic ailments: pathology of the cardiovascular system, diabetes mellitus, varicose veins.
To reveal the disease inexperienced man is not easier than before the patient is resorting to the help of doctors, the greater the chance to avoid complications. The early stage fungi are cured much more quickly and more easily than running cases. If for a long time not carried out the treatment of fungal infection, disease is spreading quickly and affecting large areas of the skin and nails.
The first symptoms of the fungus
To describe clearly, it looks like fungus of the foot, it is impossible, each person has a disease develops separately. They secrete a number of symptoms, evidence on the occurrence of a fungal disease:
- Often the fungus manifests itself between a phalanx of toes of the feet, itching, the skin starts to peel off it?
- After a bit of a nail plate becomes too thin and begins to break, occasional cases the nail becomes many times thicker?
- The claws formed a yellow coating on the surface of the nail gradually begin to relax?
- Appears a bad smell of the feet.
If any of the above symptoms of a fungal disease, do not delay trip to the doctor. The doctor will conduct an examination of the feet, based on the results of laboratory tests, it will install a kind of fungal infection and will prescribe the best course of treatment. Application of drugs does not take a lot of time and effort, the regular use of the drug allows you to get rid of the symptoms of the disease in a short period of time.
As shown by fungi on the feet
In clinical practice, there is the concept of the forms of fungal infection, all it is conditional — the disease manifests itself in different ways. With external characteristics can approximately define the type of fungal growth, the exact diagnosis can be put only by the doctor:
- Scaly fungus – the disease doesn't detect a particularly intense symptoms, symptoms of pain do not exist. After the predetermined period of time in the skin of the foot, you receive the peeling. Manual removal of horny tissue pay attention to the side of the foot, heel and between a phalanx of the fingers;
- Super keratolytic athlete's foot is characterized seal skin, drawing the skin becomes crisp. The dead cells begin especially exfoliation, the skin cracks and becomes dry, leading to the appearance of pain. Legs constantly felt discomfort and itching?
- Intertriginous form of the disease occurs as a result of complications fungal disease. Skin covers are made of pink, the slit up the leg becomes rough, it appear unpleasant sensation when walking. The skin is particularly cracks, begins to relax?
- Chronic fungal infections of the feet manifested in the form of education small bubbles on the surface of the foot. When the bubbles eat in their place are formed the wounds. The skin becomes dry and flakes in big chunks. In difficult cases, the disease causes elevation of body temperature.
Foot fungus affects the skin and the nail plate. To recognize the disease may appear:
- At an early stage of the development of nail fungus, which affect only a small part of the nail. If you take a closer look, the nail becomes opaque (you can't see the nails), the surface acquires a yellowish tint. Often between the nail and the plate is formed a small gap, where there is the outbreak of a fungal infection. The correct name described form of the disease – distal-lateral fungus.
- Distal-lateral nail fungus in the feet complicated process of keratinization of the nail. To identify the disease is easy with their appearance: the thicker the nail, the more deeply it has penetrated a fungal infection. The last stage form of the disease is characterized by the defeat of the nail, including the matrix. The procedures are described leading to complete dystrophy of the nail.
- Another form of fungal diseases is characterized by the appearance of white spots. First of all, spot imperceptible, soon the fungus spreads to the surface of the nail. To determine the disease can, after studying the nail plate, the surface becomes rough and loose.
- Near fungi of the leg is considered a painful form of the disease. Infection under your nails affects the fabric near nail, to understand that the man took a nail fungus, just. The skin swells and becomes red glossy color. Pincushion distortion leads to degenerative processes nail plate becomes uneven. If you don't take measures of treatment, the disease messes with the nail and throw it away.
- Total dystrophy nail – the most advanced form of the fungus on the feet, the nails appear grayish-yellow color. For this stage, starts the destruction of the nail.
Fungal infections is different, often the yeast fungus. Make the nail plate yellow, gradually destroy the nail and lead to what is beginning to exfoliate. If you don't do the treatment for the fingernails appear brown spots, the pad becomes red and tight. Yeast fungi cause a burning sensation and itching. If you don't do treatment, it is easy to lose the nails.
Often the fungus is accompanied by a rash, then formed parts, from which are constantly secreted liquid. If you don't treat a fungal infection, pathology progresses in years, then a generalized disease. The disease affects the organs. In addition to risk – reduced immunity, the body becomes much more receptive to diseases, infections are easier to pierce the physical protection.
Dermatophytes cause the appearance of yellow spots and stripes. A complication of the disease leads to a gradual peeling of the nail. Number of points indicates the degree of contamination. The more points, the more it affects the fungi on the nails. Dermatophytes are able to cause the appearance of fungi on the feet, and even of the tibia. To recognize the disease may be in the red hue of the skin, peeling and formation of bubbles.
A fungal infection of the feet is treated quickly, the fungus infects only the upper part of the nail, without touching the ground. To recognize the disease work with changing the color of the nail, market coffee, black or green shades. On the surface of the nail a few times there is the appearance of spots in black color. To determine fungal disease in the legs is not difficult for a thickening of the skin, the formation of bubbles and the occurrence of peeling. When the bubble bursts, forming small erosions that cause pain during walking.
Described stimulators of the fungus after a while distributed by the nails on it. In the legs begins to peel skin, is much thicker and will crack. Soon during the foot appear painful sensations
To determine athlete's foot is easy from the condition of the skin. If the dish becomes very dry, starts to peel off, processes are accompanied by itching, and clearly visible signs of the disease. If the man recognized it as a symptom, contact your doctor. The sooner you will the right treatment, the sooner you will get rid and forget about such an unpleasant disease, like the fungus of the foot.
If fungal disease is suffering a family member, you have personal belongings of the patient to be stored separately. Especially careful you have to be, if in the house small children. Don't let the disease touched the feet. If the fungus appeared on the feet of the child, immediately contact your dermatologist, the children's illness brings much more trouble than the adults. A permanent itch, erosions, ulcers and other symptoms of the disease cause discomfort. Fungal disease becomes the cause to receive inferiority complex, the right treatment will bring the health of the foot, that will save you from the insecurity.
Fungal differences able to survive for months, even in the dead of the upper horn tissues, not worth waiting for, when the disease unfold. Of course, fungi in the feet is not deadly, but it is in a position to seriously harm the quality of life. The disease is contagious, spores of fungi quickly transferred.