Toenail thickening may be nail fungal disease, congenital thick nail disease, chronic diseases, etc.. It is recommended that the patient go to the hospital in time to clarify the cause of the disease and treat the cause.
1. Nail fungal disease: nail plate and subnail tissue lesions caused by fungal infection. Often manifested as nail turbidity, thickening, separation, discoloration, atrophy, shedding and other symptoms. Can follow the doctor’s instructions to use amorolfine, cyclopamine, terbinafine, itraconazole and other drugs. If the condition is serious, surgical extraction or removal of diseased nails is feasible.
2. Congenital Thick Nail Disease: It is a hereditary skin disease, which mainly manifests as hypertrophy of nails, hyperhidrosis, and hyperkeratosis of palm and plantar surface, etc. The treatment is mainly based on the treatment of onychomycosis and onycholysis. Treatment is mainly based on scraping or excision of nail matrix and nail bed.
3. Chronic diseases: when there are chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypothyroidism, etc., it will cause poor circulation at the end of the limbs, resulting in slow keratin metabolism and keratin accumulation.
Toenail thickening may also be other reasons, it is recommended that patients actively go to the hospital for treatment, to clarify the cause of the disease, so as not to delay the condition. If you need to use medication, you need to use it under the guidance of a doctor.