The fungus among the fingers of the feet is a disease that is very easy to collect.But getting rid of him is far from being so easy.The disease can last years, often a bacterial infection binds.When the first symptoms appear, it is very important to contact a dermatologist and not self -medicate.
Why does the fungus develop among the fingers?
The fungus among the fingers of the feet is the most common type of fungal infection, which occurs in 70% of the population of our planet.This disease is especially common among people who are constantly in a humid or warm environment, often sweating due to the high physical effort.These include banners, swimmers, hot workshops employees, etc.Children are sick with much often (no more than 4%), but the incidence increases dramatically in adolescence.
The disease is caused by several species of dermatophilic fungi: Red Trichophyton, Interdaltsev Trichophytone and some types of epidermophones.All these pathogens are distinguished by a high degree of survival in the environment.They can last a long time on the floors in the bathroom and sauna house, bathing equipment, linen, in shoes.
It can be infected in a bathroom, sauna, pool, less frequently on the beach.Therefore, it is very important to observe the hygiene rules: use only an individual towel, not walk barefoot in public places, wearing individual shoes for this.
Once on the surface of the body, mushrooms produce enzymes (keratinase) that decompose keratin: the protein of the layers of the surface skin.This allows the infection to penetrate the epidermis and multiply there.Fungal cell membranes contain substances (manners) that can inhibit local immunity.Manas also suppresses the reproduction of the surface cells of the epidermis, because their peeling and purification are altered, which as a result leads to a prolonged and chronic course of the disease.
Factors that contribute to fungi propagation and implementation
Such factors include:
- Shoes that squeeze the legs that violate the blood circulation and do not pass air;
- practice sports and heavy physical work;
- trauma of the feet with a skin rape;
- Deterior immunity, for example, in the context of diabetes, prolonged administration of certain medications (glucocorticoid hormones), HIV infection;
- Violation of blood circulation at the feet of the feet at the bottom of the atherosclerosis of the lower extremities, flat feet, etc.
If a person has normal general and local immunity, the fungus cannot overcome the skin protective barrier and infiltrate the skin.All factors that suppress skin immunity allow pathogenic fungi to be introduced into the epidermis without obstacles, causing a pathological process.
Symptoms of infection
By introducing pathogenic fungi in the skin, mainly areas with thin and delicate skin are affected by interdigital gaps.It is here where the infection begins, which can then extend to the foot.The first thing an infected person experiences is itching and burning between the fingers of the feet.
Itching can be very strong, or it can be insignificant or even completely absent and appear only at the feet sweating bottom or a decrease in immunity.Significant itching, dryness, painful cracks in interdigital spaces contribute to the addition of bacterial infection and the development of purulent processes.
Sometimes, slow bubbles appear between the fingers, full of transparent fluid, which open rapidly, forming erosion.And this type of disease can be complicated by the addition of a bacterial infection.
The most characteristic of the hidden course of the fungus among the fingers, which is characterized by itching periodically.Often, such patients do not suspect the presence of infection and spread it among others.
How the disease flows
The fungus can manifest in different ways.The following forms of the disease are distinguished:
- Intriginal- The most common;It manifests in the form of itching and burning between the fingers of the feet, the dryness, the cracks with the liberation of the orejeta and the subsequent development of the maceration (loosening of the skin under the influence of the liquid);Inflammation often goes to the plantar surface of the feet and almost never to the back;Bacterial infection often joins;
- Dishidrotic- With the advent between the fingers of the stops of the slow explosive bubbles, the formation of erosion, the introduction of bacterial pathogens and the development of the pathological process according to the type of eczema, which spreads to the whole foot, the leg and even the body;
- erased- It flows unnoticed;Occasionally, a slight itching arises;A thin peel appears thin between the fingers (most of the time between 1 and 2 or 5), very small, unnoticed by crack patients.
The fungus in interdigital gaps can occur as an independent disease or is a manifestation of a general infection.Often, the fungus changes to nail plates with the development of onychomycosis.Sometimes there is a combined lesion of the skin of the feet and skin in the area of large folds in the body, as well as in the hands.In the last case, the infection is often developed in the principle of "two feet: a brush".
How to identify an infection
The diagnosis is made on the basis of an examination of a dermatologist and is confirmed by laboratory research:
- The microscopy method- Under a microscope, the skin elements (scales) taken from the lesion are examined;This is the most common method, allows you to identify a fungal infection, but you cannot determine the type of fungus;
- Microbiological examination- Sowing of biological material taken from the lesion, to nutritional means;Ground fungi are easy to identify, but they do not always give growth in laboratory conditions, so it often continues to focus only on the microscopy method.
The basic principles of treatment
For the treatment of the mushroom of the interdigital gaps, antifungal drugs are used.If the disease does not proceed for a long time, it does not progress, then external funds are used.In serious fungal infections with a tendency to spread or develop microbial eczema, antimicotic drugs of general action (system) are used.
External use of antimicotic agents requires preliminary preparation.Pathologically altered skin elements are eliminated from the surface of the skin: peel, destroy places and the remains of explosive bubbles.They try to relieve inflammation and swelling of tissues if possible.
Perform the following procedures:
- If there is a pronounced inflammation and swelling of the tissues, the lotions are prescribed with solutions of 2% boric acid, special ointments;If it does not help, corticosteroid ointments are prescribed in short courses;
- In the presence of scales and scabs, the affected areas of the body surface twice a day are lubricated with salicylic oil jelly, and then bathrooms are made with a 2%soda solution.
Only after cleaning the main treatment is performed.If there is a suspicion of mixed bacterial fungi infection, combined ointments are used, which include antibacterial, antibacterial and antiallergic components.
Drug therapy
The most modern medications for the treatment of such diseases are drugs, whose active substance of action is Terbinafina, which is part of external use products produced by several pharmaceutical companies under their commercial names.These are 1% of creams, gels, aerosols and solutions for external use.
This substance easily enters the epidermis.Already 4 hours after applying its concentration, its concentration is sufficient to suppress the vital activity of the infection.The concentration of the product accumulates in the skin gradually and after the therapy is often greater than the concentration caused by the death of fungi.In addition, it does not penetrate the middle and deep layers of the skin and does not have a systemic effect on the body.A characteristic of the antifungal agent is that it has an antibacterial effect, suppressing the vital activity of most pathogenic bacteria.Therefore, for the treatment of fungal-bacterial infection, additional antibacterial therapy is always required.
The cream, aerosol and gel apply to the pathologically altered areas of the feet daily for 7 days.Usually, this is enough to completely pass all the symptoms of the infection.If necessary, a dermatologist can extend the treatment course.
With the ineffectiveness of external treatment and common forms, often recurring from the disease, antifungal drugs of general action are prescribed.
With the development of microbial eczema, a complex treatment is prescribed, which includes antimicotic drugs, antibiotics and desensitizing agents that reduce allergic mood, inflammation and tissue edema.With severe allergic and inflammatory processes, glucocorticoid hormones are included in complex treatment.
Popular remedies against interdalcial fungi
Popular remedies can also be effective if used correctly.Traditional medicine recommends that before starting antifungal treatment, preparatory treatment for cleaning pathologically altered areas of the feet surface.Cleaning is carried out in the same way as before drug treatment.After that, fixed assets are used to suppress the vital functions of fungi.
- Method 1.Twice a day, for 2 to 3 weeks, prepare the legs for the legs with an infusion of a large amount of a large (one third of a glass of crushed grass per liter of boiling water), and then lubricate the dry surface of the feet with 10% of propolis tincture.
- Method 2.Add 20 ml of ammonia to a glass of water, moisten the bandage, wrap your fingers first and then all your foot (do not tighten!) And go until it dries;The duration of treatment is 14 days.
- Method 3.Foot baths with vinegar (for 2 liters of water - 100 ml of table vinegar).They are carried out daily before bedtime for 14 days.After the procedure, dry the legs and sprinkle them slightly with boric acid.
- Method 4.The necessary baths with a touch of axes (20 g of mahorka per 1 liter boiling water, insist of 3 to 4 hours in a thermos).Do daily before bedtime for four weeks.After the procedure, the legs must dry.In the morning, wash your feet with water.
- Method 5.Wash your feet with home soap, completely washed between the fingers.Set the legs and grease the skin with the celery juice.Do this every day for 14 days.
- Method 6.Daily legs for legs with 2%soda solution.After the bathroom, dry the legs with a towel well and grease with garlic oil.In the morning, wash them with soap.Garlic oil: mix a teaspoon crushed garlic 100 g of butter until you get a homogeneous dough.
- Method 7.Take an equal amount of apple cider vinegar and freshly squeezed carrot juice.Apply the resulting mixture to the affected areas of the skin of the feet several times a day for a month.
How to warn the infection
To prevent the disease, you need:
- Use rubber shales in a bathroom, sauna, pool, on the beach;
- Never wear another person's shoes, do not use the towel and bathroom accessories of another person;
- In the warm station, put shoes or sandals of light natural materials that pass the air and absorb moisture;
- To make a pedicure, use only individual or disposable tools.
To avoid infection, it must be:
- Treat the internal surface of shoes with disinfectant solutions, for example, formaline solutions or vinegar essence;Two days after this processing, the death of all infectious pathogens occurs.
The fungus between the fingers of the feet lends itself to the therapy with modern antifungal agents and popular methods.But it is very important to do everything possible so that there is no infection, even through its own shoes and other personal use articles.