Contents:
- Medical Video: Skin Conditions & Treatments : How to Get Rid of Fungus
- What is Candida?
- Where can mushrooms appear?
- What causes mold to appear on the skin and nails?
- How to treat fungi on the skin and nails?
- Then how to prevent mold on the skin and nails?
Medical Video: Skin Conditions & Treatments : How to Get Rid of Fungus
Mushrooms not only grow in damp places and lack light. In fact, mushrooms can also grow on your skin and nails. Yes, fungus on the skin and nails is a type of candida fungus, which is a natural fungus that can cause infection in affected parts of the body. Men and women of all ages can get infected with this type of fungus. Well, to find out more about the matter of fungus on the skin and nails, see the explanation of fungi on the skin and nails below.
What is Candida?
Please note, that there are more than 150 types of candida mushrooms. The species that most often causes the body to become a fungus, is Candida albicans. Meanwhile, 15 other Candida albicans species are known to cause infections in the skin and mucous membranes throughout the body.
The excess candida fungus that grows is more common in moist skin. In candidiasis, the term for people affected by fungus candida, can usually be treated with several free drugs sold in pharmacies if the condition of the fungal infection is mild. Serious candida infections require treatment and treatment from a doctor.
Where can mushrooms appear?
Here are the parts of the body that are most susceptible to the growth of skin fungus.
- Skin fold
- Under the breast
- Groin and around the inner thighs
- Armpit
- The space between your fingers on your hands and feet
- The skin of the foreskin from the uncircumcised penis
While fungal signs on the nails can appear with the condition of brittle nails, easily broken, or already broken. If there are often white or yellow spots under the nails, it can become fungal imprints on the nails.
What causes mold to appear on the skin and nails?
This fungal infection on the skin is usually caused by the condition of the body parts that are moist, warm and wet. The tightness of the clothes worn can make the skin do not get good air circulation. When combined with humid and warm weather like in Indonesia which is a tropical country, sweat can accumulate in tight clothing, especially in the folds of the body, and become an ideal location for fungi to grow. When you don't keep your body clean properly, the risk of fertile candida on your skin is even higher.
While fungi found on nails can be caused by certain jobs. For example if your job requires you to often come into contact with certain substances and chemicals or you are constantly in the water, so that your nails become brittle fast.
However, it cannot be denied that brittle nails can be caused by genetic factors and aging. In addition, women are more prone to nail fungus than men.
How to treat fungi on the skin and nails?
Fungal treatment in the skin and nails can generally be treated with antifungal drugs such as miconazole, clotrimazole, and oxiconazole which can help cure infections in the skin.
To speed up the healing process of fungal infections on the skin and nails, you should keep both parts of the body dry and not moist. When fungal and nail infections are severe, immediately consult a doctor to be given medication according to the prescription and the severity of the infection.
Then, skin infections in severe skin, often caused by invasive candidiasis and need to be treated by a doctor. Invasive candidiasis is a serious yeast infection that affects blood, heart, eyes, brain, and bones. People with weakened immune systems like people with HIV / AIDS are more at risk of being affected by this invasive infection. You should immediately seek medical help to be hospitalized.
Then how to prevent mold on the skin and nails?
- Keep your nails protected from exposure to chemicals or water continuously. Use waterproof gloves to do everyday tasks that require you to come into contact with water.
- You can also treat and strengthen nails with petroleum jelly or oil-based lotions rather than water-based ones.
- If the nail infection cannot be treated, you must do a nail removal surgery. It is hoped that new nails will grow, but this will require a long process.
- Take vitamin B with biotin so that brittle nails look strong. However, this is a long-term treatment and must be done regularly.
