Drug therapy for onychomycosis

1. Nail pulling method. For a single onychomycosis, nail pulling method can be used. Patients can have surgeons pull out diseased nails after local anesthesia. In addition, chemicals can also be used to remove diseased nails. You can wrap the infected nail with 40% urea ointment and change the dressing once a day. Usually, after dressing change for 5-7 times, the diseased nail layer of the patient will soften and separate from the nail bed, so that the diseased nail can be removed. Although this method can treat onychomycosis thoroughly, it often brings great pain to patients and affects their daily life. Therefore, this method is rarely used.

2. External therapy. The treatment of onychomycosis is generally external treatment. Because the treatment of onychomycosis needs to remove the diseased nail, oral therapy is usually not used, and external therapy has the advantages of safety, no pain and no side effects. According to the different drugs used, the treatment methods are different, such as soaking, local application and sealing and cutting. Pure Chinese medicine bath therapy adopts the method of local whole immersion of hands and feet to enhance the drug penetration, make it reach the deep layer of the deck and the stratum corneum of the skin, completely kill a variety of fungi and achieve the goal of radical cure. The medicines used are Chinese herbal medicines, such as Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, Cortex Dictamni Radicis, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Bombyx Batryticatus, Scorpio, Scolopendra and Agkistrodon.

3. After local anesthesia, surgical removal of nails, surgical removal of diseased nails. This method causes massive bleeding in the wound, which is easy to cause infection, and it is not radical and easy to recur. This is not an ideal treatment. Moreover, some patients with hypertension, heart disease and diabetes are not suitable for surgical treatment.

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