Gray nails, also known as onychomycosis, are mainly caused by fungal infections. It is difficult to get rid of the root cause of the disease and easy to recur, but the symptoms can be relieved by antifungal medication, physical therapy and surgical treatment.
1.Drug treatment:
(1) Topical medication: patients with onychomycosis can be treated with topical antifungal medication, commonly used medications include amorphophallus powder, cyclopiazide cream and so on.
(2) oral drugs: most patients with onychomycosis, as long as there is no contraindication, generally recommended systematic oral antifungal drugs, commonly used drugs are terbinafine, itraconazole and so on.
2. Physical therapy:
(1) laser therapy: laser has the characteristics of high targeting and high energy, which can make the sick nail locally accept higher density of energy and have certain inhibitory effect on the pathogenic bacteria, less damage to normal tissues, and at the same time, can avoid the adverse reactions produced by taking drugs.
(2) Photodynamic therapy: using photosensitizer (a kind of drug applied in photodynamic therapy) combined with certain wavelength of red light to irradiate the sick nails, which can produce singlet oxygen, oxygen free radicals to kill the pathogenic microorganisms, so as to achieve the purpose of the treatment of onychomycosis.
(3) Ion introduction therapy: using low electric current to let the local medicine penetrate into the nail plate and the surrounding tissues better to improve the therapeutic efficacy, but it is difficult to penetrate the whole layer of nail plate in this method.
3. Surgery: If the effect of conservative treatment is not good, or the nail damage is more serious, patients can take surgical treatment, the common surgical methods include nail extraction and nail removal.
If you have gray nail manifestations, you need to go to the hospital as soon as possible, so as not to delay the condition. The above medications should be used in accordance with medical advice.