If your toenails are getting itchy, brittle, and thick, you may have toenail fungus. This medical condition affects the nails on your feet and the skin surrounding them. It is annoying, irritating, and embarrassing to display in public. Fortunately, you can eliminate it quite quickly. Here’s how to do it!
Laser treatments for nail fungus
One of the fastest methods of eliminating toenail fungus involves laser surgery. This method involves a laser that has been designed for dentistry operations. Doctors use it to disperse the infected tissue on your nails and the surrounding skin.
The benefit of laser treatments is removing an advanced fungal infection quickly. However, the little research on the side effects of laser treatments for nail fungus is not conclusive. Also, the medical field has not fully approved this method as a reliable solution for onychomycosis. Therefore, we cannot recommend its use just yet.
Another aspect of laser therapy for toenail fungus that seems to put off most physicians is its external-only action. In other words, the infection may linger on your foot, under the skin, and resurface later.
Debridement surgery for fungal infections
A more painful and possibly scary method of removing toenail fungus is debridement surgery. Doctors can remove dead, damaged, or infected tissue from your foot through this medical intervention. Therefore, you risk undergoing this therapy only when the fungal infection is in its latter stages.
Nail debridement is possible through mechanical, chemical, and autolytic removal.
More traditional methods include the use of flesh-eating maggots. However, it is the surgical solution most commonly used in extreme cases of onychomycosis. You can experience the latter if you fail to take action in the early stages of the infection.