The difference between sweating herpes and fungal infection lies in the concept, symptoms and clinical examination.
1. Concept: Herpes sweat is a common dermatologic disease, related to local allergies, ultraviolet radiation, climate humidity and other factors. While fungal infection belongs to the etiology and contains numerous diseases, such as tinea capitis, tinea cruris, tinea pedis, nail fungal disease, deep fungal disease, etc. The common causative organisms are dermatophytes, Candida albicans, and sporotrichosis.
2. Symptoms: The symptoms of herpes sweat are mainly manifested as blisters with intense itching on the hands or feet, and accompanied by sweaty hands and feet, tingling and burning sensation.
The clinical symptoms of fungal infections are also different due to different parts of the invasion, superficial fungal infections are often manifested as erythema, papules, blisters and other damages, deep fungal infections in addition to the above mentioned manifestations, there will also be ulcers, bleeding, scabs and so on.
3. Clinical examination: sweat herpes need to do patch test, can effectively detect allergens, generally do not need to do pathological examination. Fungal infections take pathologic examination, fungal microscopy, fungal culture and other tests.
Sweat herpes and fungal infections, there is a certain difference between the two, the patient needs to go to the hospital, with the doctor to diagnose the disease.