Treatment of Gray Nails

  This method is suitable for single-issue gray nails. The surgeon can remove the diseased finger (toe) nail under local anesthesia. In addition, chemical medications can be applied to remove the diseased nail. If the nail is wrapped with 40% urea ointment and changed once a day, the nail will soften and separate from the nail bed after 5-7 changes. The advantage of this method is that the treatment of gray nails is more thorough, but the disadvantage is that it is more painful for the patient and may bring inconvenience to the patient’s daily life. Therefore, this method is rarely used, and is only considered when the condition is severe and other treatments are not effective.  Surgical removal of the nail under local anesthesia. This method is very invasive, bleeding and prone to infection. It is generally painful after surgery and is not ideal for treating the symptoms but not the root cause of the problem, and is prone to re-infection. The actual fact is that it is not a good idea to have surgery for patients with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc.  The new treatment of gray nails in Hangzhou Tongji Hospital is a new treatment of penetration softening (sealing package therapy), which can increase the water content of gray nails and the tissues around gray nails, make the local temperature of the nails rise, vascular expansion, so that the penetration of the medicine for the treatment of gray nails increases by 3-5 times, sealing package can remove the nail root of gray nails in 2-5 hours, so sealing package for root treatment of gray nails has a short course of treatment, high cure rate, not easy to This is the advantage of short treatment course, high cure rate and less recurrence.  Gray nails are a common skin disease of the hands and nowadays, most of them can be cured. The most common methods include scraping the brittle nail with a small sharp knife, or thinned and thickened nail, then applying 10% iodine or 30% glacial acetic acid solution, or dipping the nail in 10% iodine or goose paw wind special medicine, and insisting on treatment for several months to produce a new nail. For serious gray nails, you should also take internal ashwagandha for a few months. The following are a few common treatments: 1. Use 40% urea ointment. The formula of urea ointment is: 40 grams of urea, wool to 20 grams, 5 grams of white wax, and petroleum jelly added to 100 grams. This urea preparation is a strong keratolytic agent. When applying, protect the skin around the diseased nail with gauze and fix it with adhesive tape, then wrap it with gauze. Change the medication once a day, and each time you change the medication, use a knife to separate the nail plate and prompt the separation of the nail plate from the nail bed. Generally, the nail plate can be softened and separated from the nail bed in 5-7 times. After separation, use small scissors to reduce the nail plate into two halves, local disinfection with iodine, a few drops of 1%-2% procaine solution, a few minutes later, the diseased nail set aside, and scraping nail bed uneven keratinized material, and then mixed with urea ointment and compound benzoic acid ointment ointment dressing package, 1 time a day, until the new nail completely grows out.  2. Take 20 cloves of garlic, remove the outer skin, chop or mash, and put it into a glass bottle with a wide mouth with a stopper. Add 150ml of 10% acetic acid (or you can use edible vinegar instead) and soak for one day. Dip the diseased nails into warm water for 5 minutes to soften the nails, cut or scrape off the diseased nails that can be removed with scissors, and insert the diseased nails into the garlic infusion for 15 minutes. The effect can be seen 3 times a day for a week. If not cured, you can follow the above method to treat another course of treatment. To save time, you can also use a cotton pad dipped in garlic dip to put on the sick nails. Dipping or applying garlic dip, sometimes the sick nail feels a bit painful and should be adhered to. If the toenail suffers from grey nail, this method is equally effective. Garlic infusion can be stored for a long time and used repeatedly. It is also effective to use the second rule of foot fungus.  3. Take 4-5 cloves of garlic, peel and mash it, put it in a clean glass bottle, add 100 ml of good quality vinegar and soak it for 3-4 days to make vinegar-garlic liquid. Soak the affected area in the vinegar-garlic solution for 15 minutes, and then wrap the affected area with a cotton ball dipped in the vinegar-garlic solution. Twice a day, morning and evening, until all symptoms disappear.  4.Pound the white colored fenugreek and put it on the nail and wrap it up, change it once a day, and see the effect in about a month.  5. Soak 2-3 plants of white colored anemone flowers in vinegar for a day and soak the gray nails for 10 minutes every day before going to bed without adding water. See the effect for 7 consecutive days.  6.Take 500ml of Shanxi Taiyuan aged vinegar (the more aged the better), put it into an iron pot and boil it, concentrate it to 150ml, then put 50g of bitter ginseng and 20g of pepper, rinse it with water, put it into the concentrated vinegar, soak it for a week and you can use it.  Treatment method: Before applying the medicine, soften the gray finger (toe) nail with hot water, and then gently scrape the diseased nail layer by layer with a razor blade. The more thoroughly the diseased nail is scraped, the more significant the treatment effect is, in order not to bleed, no pain as degree. Then moisten the diseased nail with sterile cotton balls dipped in the solution for 5-10 minutes, once a day at night before bedtime. Generally apply the medicine for 5 to 7 days to see the effect.