How to treat a fungus between fingers

The fungus between the fingers is a disease that is very easy to catch.But getting rid of him is far from so easy.The disease can last for years, often a bacterial infection joins it.When the first symptoms appear, it is very important to contact a dermatologist, and not to feel yourself.

Why does the fungus develop between the fingers

Fungi between the fingers are 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 wet or hot environment, often sweating due to high physical exercise.These include banners, swimmers, hot workshops, etc.Children are much less often (no more than 4%), but the incidence increases dramatically in adolescence.

The disease is caused by different species of dermatophilic fungi: red trichophyton, trichophytonon interdaltsev and some types of epidermofi.All of 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, bathroom equipment, linen, in shoes.

You can get infected in a bath, sauna, pool, less often on the beach.Therefore, it is so important to observe hygiene rules: use only an individual towel, do not walk barefoot in public places, using individual shoes for this.

Once on the surface of the body, the fungi produce enzymes (keratinasis) that decomposes keratin - the protein of the surface skin layers.This allows the infection to penetrate the epidermis and multiply there.Fungal cell membranes contain substances (behaviors) that can impede local immunity.Manin also suppress the reproduction of superficial cells of the epidermis, due to which their desquamation and cleaning are concerned, which as a result leads to a prolonged and chronic course of the disease.

Factors contributing to the spread and implementation of fungi

Such factors include:

• shoes that squeeze the legs that violate the bloodstream and do not pass the air;
• playing sports and hard physical work;
• foot trauma with skin violations;
• Damaged immunity, for example, against the backdrop of diabetes, prolonged administration of certain medicines (glucocorticoid hormones), HIV infection;
• Violation of blood circulation in the toes against the backdrop of atherosclerosis of the lower extremities, flat feet, etc.

If a person has normal general and local immunity, the fungus will not be able to overcome the protective barrier of the skin and penetrate the skin.All factors that suppress skin immunity allow pathogenic fungi to be inserted into the epidermis without hindrance, causing a pathological process.

Symptoms of infection

When presenting pathogenic fungi to the skin, mainly areas with thin and delicate skin are affected by interdigital gaps.It is here that the infection begins, which can then spread throughout the leg.The first thing an infected person experiences is itching and burning between the fingers.

Itching can be very strong, either it can be irrelevant or even completely absent and only appears against the background of foot sweating or a decrease in immunity.Significant itching, dryness, painful cracks in the interdigital spaces contribute to the increase of bacterial infection and the development of purulent processes.

Sometimes slow bubbles appear between the fingers, filled with transparent fluid, which quickly open, forming erosion.And this type of disease can be complicated by the increase in a bacterial infection.

The most hidden characteristic of the fungus between the fingers, which is characterized by itching periodically.Often such patients do not suspect the presence of infection and spread it among others.

As the disease flows

Fungi can manifest in different ways.The following forms of the disease are distinguished:

• Intrigant- more common;It manifests itself in the form of itching and burning between fingers, dryness, cracks with luggage release, and subsequent development of makeup (release of the skin under the influence of fluid);Inflammation often passes to the planar surface of the feet and almost never to the back;Bacterial infection often joins;
• Instant- with the arrival between the fingers of the slow bubble stops, the explosion, the formation of erosion, the introduction of bacterial pathogens and the development of the pathological process by the type of eczema, which spreads throughout the leg, foot and even the body;
• deleted- flows unnoticed;Occasionally, a slight itch arises;A moderate thin peel appears between fingers (most often between 1 and 2 or 5), very small, unnoticed by cracks patients.

Fungi in interdigital gaps can occur as an independent disease or is a manifestation of a general infection.Often fungi pass through nail plates with the development of onycomycosis.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 hands.In the latter case, the infection often develops in the principle of "two legs - a brush".

How to identify an infection

Diagnosis is made on the basis of an examination of a dermatologist and is confirmed by laboratory research:

• Microscopy method- under a microscope, the skin elements (scales) obtained 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- planting of biological material obtained from lesion, in the nutritional media;Earth fungi are easy to identify, but they do not always give growth in laboratory conditions, so it often remains to focus only on the microscopy method.

Basic Principles of Treatment

Antifungal medicines are used for the treatment of interdigital gaps.If the disease does not persist for a long time, it does not progress, then external funds are used.In severe fungal infections with a tendency to spread or develop microbial eczema, antifungal (system) antifungal drugs are used.

External use of antifungal agents requires prior preparation.Pathologically altered skin elements are removed from the surface of the skin: peel, destruction of places and residues of explosion bubbles.They try to relieve inflammation and swelling of the tissue if possible.

Perform the following procedures:

• If there is a pronounced inflammation and swelling of the tissue, lotions are prescribed with 2% boric acid solution, special ointments;If it does not help, corticosteroid ointments are described in short courses;
• In the presence of scales and crusts, the affected areas of the body surface twice a day are lubricated with salicylic oil jelly, and then bathrooms are performed with a 2%soda solution.

Only after cleaning is the main treatment performed.If there is a doubt about mixed fungal-bacterial infection, combined ointments are used, which include antifungal, antibacterial and anti-allergic ingredients.

Drug therapy

The most modern medicines for the treatment of such diseases are the medication, the active substance of which is terbinafine, which is part of the products of external use produced by various pharmaceutical companies under their trading names.These are 1% creams, gel, spraying and solutions for external use.

This substance easily enters the epidermis.For 4 hours after applying its concentration, its concentration is sufficient to suppress the vital activity of the infection.The concentration of the product accumulates on the skin gradually and after the therapy is many times higher than the concentration that causes fungi death.Moreover, it does not penetrate the middle and deep layers of the skin and does not have a systemic effect on the body.One feature 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, no antibacterial therapy is always required.

Cream, varnish and gel are applied to pathologically altered areas daily for 7 days.Usually this is enough to completely pass all symptoms of infection.If necessary, a dermatologist can extend the course of treatment.

With the ineffectiveness of external treatment and common, often recurrent forms of the disease, antifungal drugs of general action are prescribed.

With the development of microbial eczema, complex treatment is prescribed, which includes antifungal drugs, antibiotics and desensitizing agents that reduce the allergic condition, inflammation and tissue edema.With severe allergic and inflammatory processes, glucocorticoid hormones are involved in complex treatment.

Folk remedies against internalial fungi

Folk remedies can also be effective if used properly.Traditional medicine recommends that before starting antifungal treatment, preparatory treatment for cleaning pathologically changed areas of the leg.Cleaning is performed in the same way as before drug treatment.After that, fixed assets are used to suppress the vital functions of the fungus.

• Method 1.Twice a day, for 2 to 3 weeks, make the feet for the feet with a celandine infusion of one large (one -third of a glass of grass for boiling water), and then lubricate the dried surface of the legs with 10% propolis trunks.
• Method 2.Add 20 ml of ammonia to a glass of water, wet the bandage, wrap your fingers first, and then the whole leg (do not tighten!) And leave until dry;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 held daily before bedtime for 14 days.After the procedure, dry your feet and sprinkle a little with boric acid.
• Method 4.The necessary bathrooms with a touch of shafts (20 g Mahorka per 1l of boiling water, insist 3 - 4 hours in a thermos).Do daily before bedtime for four weeks.After the procedure, the legs should dry out.In the morning, wash your feet with water.
• Method 5.Wash your feet with homemade soap, washing completely between your fingers.Dry your feet and brush the skin with celandine juice.Do this every day for 14 days.
• Method 6.Daily legs for feet with 2%soda solution.After the bath, dry your feet with a well towel and grease with garlic oil.In the morning, wash with soap.Garlic oil: Mix a teaspoon of garlic crushed from 100 g of butter until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
• 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 foot of the foot several times a day for one month.

How to warn the infection

To prevent the disease, you need:

• Wear rubber scabs in a bath, sauna, pool, on the beach;
• Never wear someone else's shoes, do not use someone else's towel and bathroom accessories;
• In the warm season, put on shoes or sandals from natural light materials passing by air and absorbing moisture;
• To perform a pedicure, use only individual or available tools.

To prevent re -infection should be:

• Treat the inner surface of the shoes with disinfectant solutions, for example, formal or essence of vinegar;Two days after such processing, the death of all infectious pathogens occurs.

The fungus between the fingers is well given therapy with modern antifungal agents and popular methods.But it is very important to make every effort so that there is no re -infection, including through your shoes and other personal use items.