Damage of nails fungi which in medical practice is called onikhomikozy, a disease rather widespread, and worldwide. Nails various fungal parasites are surprised, and it can happen, under certain conditions, to everyone. It is especially unpleasant when the fungus is "picked up" by the child.
Instruction
1. If you noticed at your child any changes on nails – spots, strips, thickenings, cracks – try not to tighten the address to the mycologist and the pediatrician. Business not so trifling as can seem to you. If it is a fungus, then it is possible to start it and to treat then within long months and if the child just lacks any vitamins, then you will know for sure that it is necessary to give vitamins, but not to grease with what got nails.
2. To cure a fungus, you should act in three directions. First, it is necessary to eliminate factors which can promote emergence of a fungus. So, if the fungus got to slippers, then it is better to throw out them, other footwear to disinfect, clean and make thorough cleaning in the apartment. The second direction is a use of ointments which will stop inflammation around a nail; the third – the corresponding antifungal medicines local (i.e. directly on a nail) and system (intake) action. There is a lot of creams, ointments and sprays which treat nails for fungal diseases. But, again, do not try to buy everything before do not find out a type of a fungus and its sensitivity to various drugs.
3. If all of you decided to address folk remedies, can try such recipes: Grate (or crush) garlic and mix it with butter (1:1), and then grease with this mix a nail. Dissolve a teaspoon of sea salt in liter of water and immerse the child's nails in this solution for about 15 minutes about 10 days in the evenings. Collect pitch of an apricot and fill in with a glass of vodka; place it in the dark place for three days. The affected nails need to be greased well with mix every evening within a month. Cut off nails in process of growth. Instead of apricot pitch it is possible to apply old crude sunflower oil. Take a small piece of a tea mushroom, apply it for the night to a sore nail, redress a finger. Cut off the softened nail piece in the morning. Do it before full treatment. A nail fungus also suggest to treat usual solution of coffee: fill 50 g of coffee in a basin and pour hot water there. Dip fingers of hands or legs there. Healers promise disappearance of a fungus after three procedures.