Will the shared footbath be contagious? What s going on with nail fungus? Is it a disease?

Nail fungus is a fungal mycosis caused by a fungus infection of the nails, medically known as onychomycosis. If the nail is infected with fungi, the surface of the nail plate will lose its original luster, become yellow, blue and black, and the nail plate will be thickened and warped, which is very unsightly. As the saying goes, hands are a person's second face, and it is always embarrassing to have nail fungus on your hands when interacting with people, and to wear beautiful sandals in summer to show your black toenails.

In fact, nail fungus is not only aesthetically pleasing, it also has many potential harms. The fungus that causes onychomycosis is an epidermal pathogenic fungus, which can not only infect nails, but also infect **, causing athlete's foot, tinea man, and tinea corporis. Nail fungus is often caused by fungal infections such as ringworm of the hands and athlete's foot.

Topical antifungal ointment can kill fungus, athlete's foot, ringworm, but because nails are composed of very tough and dense keratin, it is difficult for ordinary ointments to penetrate, so nails have become a hidden fortress of fungi. One of the reasons why some people suffer from beriberi every year is that when the day is hot, the fungus hidden in the nail fungus will multiply in large numbers and infect the surrounding **, causing beriberi. The disease caused by the fungus is contagious, and if you suffer from nail fungus and are not active, it is a dangerous source of infection in the family and unit.

Cooking, babysitting, laundry, and shaking hands in interpersonal interactions can spread the nail fungus on your hands to your family and colleagues.

Due to the thickening and upturn of the nail plate of nail fungus, it is also often stabbed around the nail ** secondary bacterial infection, causing paronychia, local cellulitis, nail groove, finger (toe) head redness, swelling, and throbbing pain. In severe cases, it can also cause erysipelas. And these serious comorbidities of nail fungus, like a time bomb, may not appear when you are strong, once you are nervous, tired, or suffering from other serious diseases, when your resistance is reduced, it will take advantage of the danger to cause you trouble.

Yes, don't use it in common, keep it separate. If you have nail fungus, you have to **. Beijing Guolong Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital specializes in nail fungus.

It doesn't work if you touch it, and it takes time for the virus to spread. And you've done so much of the protection behind you. It's going to be fine.

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Nail fungus is contagious.

Transmission route of nail fungus.

Transmission route 1 of nail fungus: patients with nail fungus often do not pay attention, through scratching or minor trauma can infect ringworm corpus, jock itch, etc., many patients often because of direct contact with the feet with onychomycosis or athlete's foot and will be transmitted to the hands. Close contact with family or friends can also be a direct contagion.

Transmission route 2: Nail fungus, like other ringworm diseases, often occurs in hot and humid areas, in addition to geographical factors, there are also personal factors, such as not paying attention to personal hygiene, wearing tight clothes and breathable shoes, old age and frailty, etc., these are also the transmission routes of nail fungus.

Transmission route 3 of nail fungus: contact in places of social interaction, such as shaking hands, using banknotes, holding car handrails, holding **, etc., will also transmit pathogenic fungi to healthy people, which is an important transmission channel; Various public places, such as bathhouses, swimming pools, dormitories, dance halls, etc., have become the transmission base of ringworm, which is also the route of transmission of nail fungus.