Fungus between the toes is a very easy -to -invalse disease.But get rid of it far from easy.The disease can last for years, usually bacterial infections.When the first symptoms appear, it is very important to contact a dermatologist, and not for yourself.
Why the fungus develops between the toes
Fungus between the toes is the most common type of fungal infection, which occurs in 70% of our planet population.The disease is very common in people who are always in a damp or hot environment, often sweating due to high physical work.These include banners, swimmers, hot workshop workers and more.Children are sick more often (no more than 4%), but incidents increase dramatically in adolescence.
The disease is caused by various species of dermatophilic fungus: red trichophyton, interdaltsev trichophytitone and some types of epidermophyton.All of these pathogens are distinguished by the high level of survival in the environment.They can last a long time on the floor in the bathroom and sauna, bathing equipment, linen, shoes.
You can be infected in baths, sauna, swimming pools, less often on the beach.Therefore, it is very important to adhere to the hygiene rules: just use individual towels, do not walk barefoot in public places, using individual shoes for this.
Once on the surface of the body, the mushrooms produce an enzyme (keratinase) that disrupt keratin - a surface layer of skin.This allows the infection to penetrate the epidermis and breed there.Mushroom cell membranes contain substances (manners) that can prevent local immunity.Manins also suppresses the reproduction of cells of the epidermal surface, in which their desquamation and purification are disrupted, which results in prolonged and chronic diseases.
Factors contributing to the spread and implementation of fungus
Such factors include:
- Shoes that squeeze the legs that violate blood circulation and do not pass the air;
- play heavy sports and physical labor;
- foot trauma with skin infringement;
- Affected immunity, for example, against the background of diabetes, administration of certain drugs (glucocorticoid hormones), HIV infection;
- Violation of blood circulation in the feet against the background of lower leg atherosclerosis, flat feet and so on.
If a person has general and local immunity, the fungus will not be able to overcome the skin's protective barrier and infiltrate the skin.All factors that suppress the skin's immunity allow the pathogenic fungus to be introduced into the epidermis without obstruction, causing the pathological process.
Symptoms of infection
When introducing pathogenic fungus into the skin, especially areas with thin and delicate skin are influenced by the interdigital gap.This is where the infection begins, which can then spread throughout the feet.The first thing that the infected person faces is itching and burning between the toes.
Itching can be very strong, or may not be important or even absent completely and only appear with the background of sweating or immunity.Significant itching, dryness, painful cracks in the interdigital space contribute to the addition of bacterial infections and the development of purulent processes.
Sometimes damp bubbles appear between the fingers, are filled with transparent fluids, which quickly open, form erosion.And this type of disease can be complicated with the addition of bacterial infections.
The most hidden features of the fungus are hidden between the toes, characterized by periodic itching.Often such patients do not suspect the presence of infection and spread it among others.
How is the disease flowing
Fungus can be manifest in different ways.The following forms of illness are distinguished:
- Intriginal- the most common;It manifests itself in the form of itching and burning between the toes, dryness, cracks with lug release and subsequent development (loosening the skin under the influence of liquid);Inflammation often passes to the surface of the foot and almost never backwards;Bacterial infections often combine;
- Dyshidrotic- with the arrival between the fingers - the jungle stops damp bubbles, broken, erosion formation, the introduction of bacterial pathogens and the development of pathological processes by type of eczema, which spreads throughout the feet, feet and even the body;
- off- flow unknowingly;Sometimes, itching is a bit of itching;Moderate thinning appears between the toes (most often between 1 and 2 or 5), very small, unknowingly by cracked patients.
Fungus in the interdigital gap can occur as an independent disease or is a manifestation of general infection.Usually the fungus turns to the nail plate with the development of onychomycosis.Sometimes there are combination of skin and skin in large folds in the body, as well as hands.In the second case, the infection often develops based on the principle of "two feet - one brush."
How to identify an infection
The diagnosis is based on a dermatologist's examination and is confirmed by laboratory research:
- A microscopic method- under the microscope, the skin element (scale) taken from the lesions is examined;This is the most common method, it allows you to identify fungal infections, but cannot determine the type of fungus;
- Microbiological examination- sowing biological material taken from lesions, to nutrient media;Mushrooms are easy to identify, but they do not always provide growth in laboratory conditions, so they often focus only on microscopy methods.
The basic principle of treatment
For the treatment of the interdigital gap, antifungal drugs are used.If the disease is not long, it does not develop, then external funds are used.In severe fungal infections with a tendency to spread or develop microbial eczema, general antifungal drugs (systems) are used.
External use of antifungal agents requires early preparation.The pathological modified skin elements are removed from the surface of the skin: peeling, destroying the place, and the residual bubbles are broken.They try to relieve inflammation and swelling of the tissue if possible.
Carry out the following procedures:
- In the event of inflammation and swelling of the tissue, lotions are prescribed with a 2% boric acid solution, special ointment;If it does not help, corticosteroid ointment is prescribed in short courses;
- With the presence of a scale and crust, the area affected by the body twice a day is lubricated with salicylic petroleum jelly, and then a bath with a 2% soda solution is performed.
Only after cleaning is the main treatment.In the event of suspicion of mixed bacterial infections, combined ointments are used, including antifungal, antibacterial and anti-allergic components.
Drug therapy
The most modern medicines for the treatment of the disease are medicines, its active ingredients are terbinafine, which is part of the external use product produced by various pharmaceutical companies under their trade name.These are 1%cream, gel, spray and solutions for external use.
This material easily enters the epidermis.It is 4 hours after using its concentration, its concentration is sufficient to suppress important activities of the infection.The product concentration accumulates on the skin gradually and after therapy is higher than the concentration that causes fungal death.In addition, it does not penetrate the middle and in the skin and has no systemic effect on the body.The feature of antifungal agents is that it has antibacterial effects, suppressing important activity of pathogenic bacteria.Therefore, for the treatment of fungal bacterial infections, additional antibacterial therapy is not always required.
Cream, spray and gel are used for areas that are pathologically altered daily for 7 days.This is usually enough to go through all the symptoms of infection.If necessary, dermatologists can continue treatment.
With non -compliance with external and general treatment, the frequent forms of the disease, the antifungal drugs of general action are prescribed.
With the development of microbial eczema, complex treatment is prescribed, including antifungal drugs, antibiotics and desensitizing agents that reduce allergic mood, inflammation and tissue edema.With severe allergies and inflammation, glucocorticoid hormones are included in complex treatment.
People's recovery against interdalcial fungus
Folk medicine can also be effective if it is used properly.Traditional medicine recommends that before starting antifungal treatment, preparations for cleaning of areas of pathological modified areas on the foot surface.Cleaning is done in the same way as before drug treatment.Subsequently, the assets are still used to suppress the important function of mushrooms.
- Method 1.Twice a day, for 2 to 3 weeks, make feet for the feet with large absorption of celandine (one -third of a glass of crushed grass per liter of boiling water), and then lubricate the dry surface of 10% propolis tincture.
- Method 2.Add 20 ml of ammonia to a glass of water, moisturize the bandage, wrap your finger first, and then the whole leg (do not tighten!) And let it dry;The duration of treatment is 14 days.
- Method 3.Bath with vinegar (for 2 liters of water - 100 ml of table vinegar).They are held every day before bedtime for 14 days.After the procedure, dry your feet and slightly sprinkle with boric acid.
- Method 4.The required bath with a touch of shaft (20 g mahorka per 1l boiling water, insists 3 - 4 hours in thermos).Do it every day before going to bed for four weeks.After the procedure, the feet must dry themselves.In the morning, wash your feet with water.
- Method 5.Wash your feet with home soap, carefully wash between the fingers.Dry your feet and pour the skin with celandine juice.Do this every day for 14 days.
- Method 6.Daily feet for feet with 2%soda solution.After bathing, dry your feet with a towel well and grease with garlic oil.In the morning, wash them with soap.Garlic oil: Mix one teaspoon of crushed garlic from 100 g of butter until homogeneous mass is obtained.
- Method 7.Take the same amount of apple vinegar and freshly squeezed carrot juice.Apply the resulting mixture to the affected area of the skin several times a day for a month.
How to warn an infection
To prevent this disease, you need:
- Wear rubber shales in the bathroom, sauna, pool, on the beach;
- Never wear other people's shoes, don't use other towels and bathing accessories;
- In the summer, place shoes or slippers from natural light materials that pass through the air and absorb moisture;
- To run the pedicure, use only individual tools or disposable.
To prevent re -tanks should be:
- Treat the inner surface of the shoe with a disinfectant solution, for example, formalin solution or essence of vinegar;Two days after such processing, the death of all infectious pathogens occurred.
The fungus between the toes is to lend itself to therapy with modern antifungal agents and folk methods.But it is very important to make every effort to avoid germs, including through your own shoes and other personal use.