For particularly thick gray nails, they can be treated with topical medications combined with oral antifungal medications, and if necessary, through surgery.
Gray nails, or onychomycosis, is a nail lesion caused by fungal infection of the nail plate and nail bed, which can lead to thickening, brittleness and discoloration of the nails.
1. Medication: If patients have gray nails with thickening, they can be treated with medication first. You can apply glacial acetic acid externally to soften the nail, and then apply ketoconazole cream or terbinafine hydrochloride ointment for antifungal treatment.
Because it is difficult to penetrate the nail with external drugs, the efficacy of external drugs alone is not good, and it is necessary to take oral terbinafine tablets or itraconazole capsules and so on.
2. Surgery: If the patient’s gray nails are particularly thick and the effect of the above medication is not obvious, the diseased nails can be removed through surgical extraction, but this is more suitable for single gray nails. At the same time, the patient should go to a professional hospital to let the professional doctor to operate, to avoid bleeding and causing infection.
The above treatment and medication should follow the doctor’s prescription. Patients should pay attention to personal hygiene in daily life, choose comfortable and loose shoes and socks, and regularly disinfect their personal belongings, which will help their condition recover.