Hyperkeratosis: What it is and how to avoid it!

THE onychomycosis it is not a simple aesthetic problem.

It is a contagious skin infection that does not heal on its own.

It affects 90% the toenails.

The Clinical Symptoms

Nine times out of ten, the toenails are affected by dermatophytes.

At the level of the fingernails 50% is due to dermatophytes and the other 50% to candida infections.

The adjacent nails are easily infected, but also in some cases the skin near the nails.

Nail growth unfortunately does not limit the progression of onychomycosis.

• Dermatophytes

Affection of the nails is almost always accompanied by an affectation of the spaces between the toes and the soles of the feet.

It begins below the free edge of the nail at the level of the subungual.

The tips of the nail become white and pale yellow.

Many times the staining can be brown or black (staining due to the spread of the fungus in the stratum corneum of the nail bed).

Then the hyperkeratosis appears on the free edge of the nail and the fungus progresses to the entire nail plate and a pain when walking may also appear (photo of the condition).

The most common condition is Peripheral Onychomycosis.

This gradual attack can be seen by the small separation that can exist between the nail and the skin, the layer of the nail underneath.

Hyperkeratosis is created and the nail plate is raised.

The nail then breaks, creating the right conditions for secondary colonization by bacteria.

• The Canditiasias

Unlike dermatophytes, candida onychomycosis infects the paronychia and is common in women who constantly wear plastic gloves for work.

Redness and swelling of the paronychia accompanied by pain is observed.

The nail becomes secondarily infected and takes on a brownish hue mainly around the uterine area.

Note: The lady in the photo is elderly, has developed hyperkeratosis and no one had ever taken her for a pedicure.

Caution: Be more careful with your own people because many times they need you!!!!

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