How much harm is onychomycosis

onychomycosis is harmful, including affecting beauty, infecting others, restricting activities, causing complications, etc.

1. Affecting beauty

onychomycosis can make nails discolored, thickened, tilted, uneven surface, seriously damaging the appearance of nails, which will bring psychological distress and social embarrassment to patients.

2. Infecting others

It can be transmitted to others through direct contact, and it is also easy to infect multiple nails. It may also be transmitted to other parts of the body, such as tinea manus, tinea pedis, etc.

3. Restricting activities

onychomycosis may cause serious nail deformation, thus affecting the flexibility of fingers and the completion of fine movements, causing inconvenience to some work and daily life that require fine operation of hands.

4. Causes complications

Untreated onychomycosis for a long time may cause complications such as onychia, leading to local pain, redness, suppuration, etc., further affecting the quality of life.