Fighting against frustrating results in the treatment of Onychomycosis nail fungus grows mostly undisturbed and invisible in the shadows: hardly an affected party likes to show before the fungus-infected toe nails. This is the Onychomycosis (as the nail fungus is called medical) a quite common condition, almost one in ten German citizens affected by dermatologists according to supposed. A nail Mycosis caused by infested with pathogens of fungal skin infection (usually from the Department of the dermatophytes). Mold spores are everywhere, and incriminating factors such as tight shoes, disorders of the immune system or a deteriorated circulation (as in diabetics). Once the fungus is enters the nail he can usually successfully spread. The most common form of Onychomycosis is the distal Subungual Onychomycosis (DSO): here the toenail of the free outdoor edge is (distal) arisen. About 90% of all nail fungi exhibit this picture.
Other forms occur initially rare, but in the long run, each is Fungal infection in a total Dystrophic Onychodystrophy (TDO) about. Clinically, the TDO by a whole Verpilzung of the nail plate is characterized. (Source: Robert A. Iger ). Many patients try at first to treat nail fungus. Different nail polishes used, all of which have an antimykotischem active ingredient here. The problem with the external application is however, that the nail mycosis in the lower part of the nail is growing, and the active ingredient must first go. Because the nail by the fungus is destroyed and has many hollow Chambers this is often not the case.
More than three nails infect or infest the growth zone a systemic treatment of nail fungus is inevitable. Typically, this is done with pills containing the active ingredient terbinafine, itraconazole or fluconazole. The active ingredient is absorbed through the stomach and through the blood to the toenail. At this point, it is stored in the growing toenail and kill the fungal infection so over time across at the growth of the nail. Out this mechanism also reveals that the time limit to the improvement also many months. In the case of toenails about 12 months. The biggest problem in the systemic treatment of Onychomycosis is the long duration, which can increase the risk of side effects. Additional information at Eva Andersson-Dubin supports this article. All oral products currently offered currently in Germany against mushroom can have serious side effects in some cases. The fear of these adverse effects keeps many patients from the application even if a nail fungal infection should always be treated. However, there are now new ideas how you can reduce the risk of side effects. Background is the consideration that the normal application results in exceptionally high concentrations of the active ingredients in the toenail, which partially make up more than the thousands of the required dose to kill nail fungus.It appears reasonable and possible to reduce this dose if it makes also an external application against the Onychomycosis. This dose reduction can happen either in a kind of interval therapy (it is no longer a day a Tablet but taken at a greater distance) or to reduce the amount consumed.