Although gray nails are small, many patients are hurt by them. It’s a good way to get rid of your nails. The special dense and hard nature of the nail makes it difficult for general topical medications to penetrate and kill the fungus. The nail, which is supposed to block the fungus, instead provides a natural barrier for the pathogenic fungus to multiply and provides a breeding ground for fungal parasites. So, today we will share with you, can gray nails be cured? How to cure gray nails? Is there any medicine for gray nails? About the treatment of gray nails, the following points of common sense is very important 1, the diversity of fungi complex, by medical research shows that the fungi that can lead to gray nails are commonly the following: dermatophytes, pathogenic yeast and filamentous fungi other than dermatophytes, many patients are directly to the pharmacy to buy a drug to treat, in fact, a single kind of drug is difficult to all the fungi are effective. Fungal insensitivity to drugs, in a dormant state of the pathogenic fungal body to the general antifungal drugs simply do not reflect, and the incubation period of fungal dormancy is long. Once the drug stops, temperature and humidity and other environmental suitable, fungal spores will germinate, grow and multiply. 2, learn to distinguish nail disease. Many people tend to see a little abnormality in their nails and subjectively think that they are suffering from grey nails and casually treat them with drugs and prescriptions. This is a very unscientific approach, because nail abnormalities are not necessarily gray nails, must first go to the regular hospital dermatology to confirm the diagnosis, and then choose the correct treatment therapy. The actual fact is that you will not be able to do any good to the disease, but you will be able to deepen it. 3, to prevent nail infection. According to statistics, about 30% of domestic families with grey nails have family members with varying degrees of infection. As patients will ignore the seriousness of nail fungus disease, in fact, many patients’ infections are from family members. 4. The need for proper treatment. For the treatment of gray nails, patients must be patient, otherwise it will make the condition worse. Especially many patients in the long treatment, wasting money, time, and more serious complications. The actual nail is often seen in outpatient clinics as an overly aggressive method of treatment, namely surgical nail removal, which is not used much due to trauma, infection and pain and inconvenience. The other is that some informal clinics use drugs to soak, although there is a certain effect, but the use of a long cycle (often more than half a year) on the finger (toe) end of the skin has deep damage, so now also gradually eliminated. The nail is caused by a fungus that infects the nail cap and absorbs the nutrients under the nail cap, preventing the nail from growing normally, making the nail deformed, brittle, discolored, hollow, thickened, etc. Since the fungus grows and reproduces under the nail cover for a long time, it is highly contagious. One diseased nail can spread to multiple diseased nails, so it is important to treat gray nails as soon as possible. There is a certain percentage of mixed infections in gray nails. In fact, in daily life, 8 or 9 out of 10 people have tinea pedis, either because they usually wear flip-flops indiscriminately and never care about it, and after a long time, they are infected with tinea pedis, which is not treated in time, and when the immunity of the toenails is low, the fungus invades the nail bed and causes gray toenails; or they have tinea pedis and they do not have the right understanding, thinking that it is okay and they can get well by themselves after a few days, but in fact, the hands and feet are dry, cracked, peeling, and In fact, dry, cracked, peeling, slightly itchy, and blistered hands and feet are all symptoms of chronic tinea pedis, which is most likely to cause gray nails; secondly, if you have mild tinea pedis, you can easily get infected with gray nails when you are sick or if your toenails are squeezed or have trauma to your toenails, or if you have low immunity. Treatment Tinea capitis (gray nails) is one of the most stubborn and difficult to treat diseases of the skin. It can be treated with oral and topical medications, or surgical nail removal. Fingernails and toenails grow at different rates. It takes 100 days to completely replace a new nail for fingernails, and about 300 days for toenails, and even longer for older people, so patience is necessary to treat gray nails. 1. Surgical nail extraction For single nails, the affected nail is removed under local anesthesia. This method is very invasive, bleeding and prone to infection. The procedure is usually painful and easy to re-infect the nail, so it is less commonly used. Patients with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, etc. should not be treated surgically. 2.Internal medication Suitable for more than one finger (toe) nail. For example, take 250mg of terbinafine tablets orally daily for 6 to 12 weeks, or itraconazole 400mg/day for 7 days with a 21-day break for 3 to 6 sessions. It can cure more than 80% of onychomycosis and nail fungus. However, because this type of drug must reach the nail plate where the fungus lives in order to exert its antibacterial effect, the dosage of the drug is large and the duration of the drug is long, so the adverse drug reactions should be monitored regularly. However, in the clinical application if you grasp its indications did not find the so-called liver damage, the general liver function of normal patients only need to check the liver function when taking the drug for 3 months. 3, topical therapy Depending on the agent, the main topical application and sealing package chipping and other methods. It is suitable for patients with single nail involvement and contraindications to oral medication. (1) Use a nail file (non-professionals should not use a razor blade to avoid bleeding and infection of other diseases) to thin the irregular bad nail, grinding nail cycle is better once every 2 days; (2) 30% glacial acetic acid topical application or 10% glacial acetic acid soak the diseased nail once a day for more than 3 to 6 months. If the diseased nail is thinned before applying the medicine, the treatment effect is better. The skin around the nail is protected with a mild ointment before applying the nail. (3) Use topical antifungal medications such as terbinafine tincture, amorolfine nail application, ciclopirox nail coating, etc. for local application. In conclusion, treatment of gray nails should be persistent. You should also actively treat ringworm and chronic systemic diseases in other parts of the body, improve your own resistance, and prevent and treat them at the same time, so that you can completely cure your gray nails.