Gray nail is a fungal infection that is contagious. If left untreated, it is likely to turn from one to many gray nails and can be transmitted to family members. But since it is a fungal infection it can definitely be cured. I will learn more about it from these aspects.

1. What do gray nails look like?

Gray nails are characterized by thickening of nails or toenails, discoloration (gray or yellowish, gray-brown in severe cases), loss of luster of the nail plate, uneven surface, brittle nail texture becomes a pile of a large number of debris, hyperkeratosis, finger (toenail) nails are easy to fracture, in severe cases, the nail plate is completely detached from the base, nails can be raised, the bottom of the gypsum powder like debris. And there is a characteristic is not ten nails a piece of onset, usually a single nail onset, and then infected, gradually increased. And most people will have ringworm or foot fungus.

2、Differential diagnosis of gray nails

Are all thickened, deformed and flaky nails gray nails? Not quite, there are many diseases caused by nail change performance and gray nail performance is almost the same, not very experienced dermatologists are easy to misdiagnose, not to mention the general public, but also do not understand, what other diseases caused by nail change? Let's today to blah blah blah, I hope to help the general public.

a. Bacterial infection causing nail lesions.Like Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection nails have a green color, while similar to mycobacterial infections such as Penicillium. Bacterial onychomycosis and its nail lesions can be similar to those caused by Candida, but while bacterial infections cause acute inflammation such as marked redness, swelling, heat, and pain with pus, the inflammatory response to Candida infections is not as strong.

b. Nail lesions caused by skin diseases.If psoriasis can have joint damage, it can lead to nail lesions. Dermatitis eczema of the hands, especially the nail fold swelling can affect the nail bed, leading to nail deformation. One type of lichen planus is lichen planus of the nail, which can also cause thickening and deformation of the nail plate with pitting or longitudinal ridges, etc. These disorders are usually accompanied by a corresponding dermatologic condition that can assist in the diagnosis.

c. Systemic diseases nutritional diseases hereditary diseases or drugs can cause various nail changes.Such as changes in nail color (whitening dark pigmentation light blue yellow, etc.), changes in the shape of the nail (there are transverse grooves dysplasia nail plate is too thick or too thin, too big or too small become brittle or peeled off with the nail bed, etc.), these changes are sometimes mistakenly called gray nails, but these nail diseases have a common feature, that is, all finger (toe) nails are diseased and synchronized, that is to say, the above internal causes of the nail is the same time the impact of the occurrence. Gray nail is caused by external factors, fungal infection of the nail plate is successive transmission, sometimes seen more than one nail ringworm occurs, but successive appearance, and still may have some nails completely normal, which is not seen in the endogenous nail disease.

3. What is the gold standard for diagnosing gray fingernails?

For the diagnosis of gray nails, the gold standard is that the fungus can be cultured from the nail debris.

4、What are the dangers of gray nails?

a, fungi can produce about 150 different toxins, many toxins can be carcinogenic and extremely toxic, such as mold in the toxicity of aflatoxin than the giant drug potassium cyanide is also dozens of times more toxic, is a strong carcinogen.

b, impede the appearance: gray nails are caused by fungal infection, fungal nail disease can appear a variety of colors, the most common is gray-white, can also see brown, gray-brown or dark brown, black and yellow nails ugly, affecting people's social and normal life. For girls who love beauty is even more unable to see, greatly affecting their own beauty, and even to the psychological also brought great pressure.

c, seriously affect the choice of work: gray nails to the work life brings inconvenience, such as shaking hands, serving tea, passing objects, visiting friends and relatives, etc., he (she) people are reluctant to contact, suffering from gray nails after some kinds of work are restricted, such as doctors, nurses, silk weavers, public relations work. Due to the gray nails affect the aesthetic appearance, often give people a not so good feeling, choose some of the higher image requirements of the work such as reception, stewardesses, models and so on are often not accepted.

d. Gray nails lead to deformities of the fingers (toes) of the hands and feet are relatively common, leading to amputation has also been reported. Gray nail is easy to infect family and friends, family and friends often due to change shoes, hand and foot contact and sharing household goods.

e, cause other dermatophytosis: gray nails are highly infectious, nail fungus can be contacted with scratching to other parts of the body to occur all kinds of dermatophytosis such as tinea cruris, tinea corporis and so on. Nail fungus treatment is not standardized, even if the tinea pedis cure, but also very susceptible to nail fungus re-infection and foregone.

f. 95% of lesbians suffering from gray nails can be infected into serious gynecological diseases such as mycosis vaginalis.

g. Highly contagious: Because gray nails are contagious, they also pose a threat to family and friends. Some public places have a discriminatory attitude towards people suffering from this disease. Nail fungus (gray nail) is not only infectious and harmful to the skin tissue, but also invades the internal organs of the human body as well, even leading to death.

5、What treatments are available for gray nails? How to get rid of the root?

a. Surgical nail extraction:Suitable for single gray nail, under local anesthesia, the affected nail will be removed. This method is large, bleeding, easy to cause infection. Surgical treatment of gray nails will generally feel more pain, easy to re-infection recurrence, clinical use is now less. Heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and other gray nail patients, should not be surgical treatment.

b. Chemical nail extraction:Usually a 40% urea cream, or other corrosive chemical, is used to seal the bad nail, and the nail is left to be softened and fall off automatically; this method is also used for a single onset of the disease. The treatment time is also longer.

c. TCM nail removal:Available purple paste stick heating softening, paste the affected nail, keep 7 ~ 10 days to remove, with a blunt knife to scrape has softened keratin, and then continue to paste, so repeatedly to the new nail grows out. Or the sick nail immersed in Chinese medicine vinegar for about 20-30min (do not wash off the vinegar after immersion), this method is more simple than nail removal.

d. Topical medication:For nails with fewer episodes, especially those infected from the outside in, you can use drugs such as Bright Nail, Nail Remedy, and Rohypnol to apply them externally, with the disadvantage that you have to file your nails first every time you apply the drug. It's time-consuming. It is also more troublesome.

e. Systemic medication:The earliest is to use ashwagandha orally to treat gray nails, but the cure rate is low, the course of treatment should be long. Long-term use of the drug is easy to cause toxicity and adverse reactions, so it has not been used as the conventional treatment of gray nails. Recently listed some new drugs have greatly changed the prognosis of gray nails, such as the daily service of terbinafine 250mg, served for 6 to 12 weeks. Itraconazole 400mg/d, take 7d, rest 21d for 1 course of treatment, more than 3 to 4 consecutive courses of treatment, can also be 1 to 2 times a week fluconazole 150mg, more than 4 consecutive months. Personally, I think the shock therapy of itraconazole is the most effective and has the least side effects, but try not to drink alcohol during the medication.

Having said that I believe you already know about gray nails, and you are already clear about the treatment. If you want to be cured at all it is best to take oral itraconazole shock treatment.

Gray nail is a very common but very troublesome disease in life, this disease not only to the patient's nails cause serious damage to the gray nail patients in their daily lives in the normal social life will also bring a very big impact, so the timely treatment of gray nails is very important, and now there are a variety of methods of treatment of gray nails, but many people ask whether gray nails will be contagious to the people around them? The following is a specific introduction to this question.

Can gray fingernails be contagious to those around you? The answer to this is a resounding yes, the disease of gray nails is contagious.Especially when the nails are infected with bacteria, the bacteria can be transmitted to other people's hands, and if other people are also infected, then the infected people will also become gray nail patients. Contacts in social interaction places, such as shaking hands, using public telephones, etc., can spread disease-causing fungi to the skin of healthy people. Various public places, such as bathrooms, swimming pools, dormitories, etc., can become the base for the spread of the disease.

Gray manicure patients in the life of friends, gradually learn healthy personal and family hygiene habits, pay attention to keep the skin dry at all times, socks, slippers, foot basin, daily necessities to be used separately, avoid with others, in order to reduce the possibility of cross-infection caused by gray manicure. If you are already a gray nail patient, then to actively take the formal, systematic professional, must pay attention to must adhere to the treatment, so as to avoid their own infection or infected to others.

Due to the result of fungal cross-infection, gray manicure easily leads to a high rate of family infection. According to the statistics, about 34% of the family members of the patients with gray manicure in China also have the phenomenon of foot fungal infection. A few days ago there was a case of "fungus family", both parents were infected with gray nails for many years, but did not consult a doctor, in the fermentation of the family cross-infections, and finally even the children also suffered from fungal attack, which can be seen that the harm of gray nails is very serious. People often ignore the danger of gray nails, in the outpatient treatment of other parts of the body of the mold infection, only to find that the hands and feet with gray nails, many of which the source of infection from their own family members.

Gray nail is a chronic fungal infection that requires active treatment. If not treated actively, the harm of gray nails will not only be personal. When some people see changes in their nails and feet, they use ginger, tea water, essential oils, or vinegar to treat them on their own, which not only wastes money and time, but also increases the chance of serious complications. Since gray nails are not a personal disease, in the case of fungal infection, it will also affect family members around you. If your friends and relatives have gray nails, you must pay attention to the patient's personal hygiene and actively seek medical treatment, so as to avoid expanding the infection.

There are two scientific names for gray nails: "onychomycosis" and "nail fungus disease". It is a chronic infectious nail disease that occurs when dermatophytes, yeasts and fungi invade the nail beds under the armor plate and nail plate, nail fungal disease history of dermatology is a common disease, a frequent occurrence, and a disease that is relatively difficult to treat.

Gray nails, like other ringworm diseases, are found in hot and humid areas. In addition to geographic factors, personal circumstances determine who is more susceptible to the disease. Conditions such as not paying attention to personal hygiene, working or exercising a lot, wearing tight clothes and breathable shoes, suffering from diabetes, hormonal imbalance and poor local microcirculation are all prone to infecting people with fungi causing gray nails. Most people with gray nails, often first suffer from skin ringworm, such as foot fungus, and then infected nails, but there are a few people who first have gray nails, and then through the sick nails caused by the skin infection, gray nails not only can be transmitted by themselves, but also may be infected to others. Yes, here is a direct answer to the question, gray nails are contagious.

What are the effects of gray nails on patients?

Although ringworm does not invade the blood, internal organs, but once invaded the deck, it forms a breeding ground for the production of skin ringworm infection, and long-term change of ringworm, there may be secondary bacterial infection, causing local skin redness and swelling or even pus, when serious, it can affect the person's social life, employment, frustration of the person's self-confidence, resulting in a decline in the quality of life, and also may be disseminated to family members and friends.

How should I treat my gray nails?

There are a lot of secret remedies circulating about the treatment of gray nails, but not many of them are being effective. If you have gray nails, you should first go to the hospital for a checkup and then follow the doctor's instructions for treatment. It is best not to use medication without authorization, lest it backfire and delay treatment.

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Gray nails, also known as nail fungus, are caused by fungal infections of the nails by yeast, dermatophytes and other fungi. While it is unpleasant for the majority of gray nail patients, it also raises the question of whether the disease is contagious. The answer is yes.

Whether a disease is contagious or not has three elements: the source of infection, the means of transmission, and the population susceptible to the infection.

An infectious agent is a source that can transmit a pathogenic microorganism to a susceptible person. In the case of gray nails, the source of infection mainly consists of the person with gray nails (the person who develops the disease).

The route of infection refers to the process by which pathogenic microorganisms reach and invade the infected person from the source of infection through certain modes of transmission, resulting in disease in the susceptible person.

The causative fungus in gray nails is usually transmitted through contact. For example, in a warm and humid environment such as the inside of a shoe, a large number of fungi can multiply, and when susceptible people come into contact with it, they are likely to be infected with tinea pedis, which, if left untreated, can be transmitted to the nails, leading to gray nails.

Since gray nails are contagious, you should do a good job of preventing them in your daily life, and try to avoid going to some public bathhouses and public swimming pools. The shoes and socks you wear should be disinfected frequently and the gray nails should be treated actively.

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Can gray nails infect people? This I think it is the most important first of all to infect yourself, because gray nail in dermatology is also called onychomycosis, it is a lesion of fingernails and toenails caused by dermatophytes, usually gray nail and foot fungus concurrently. There is an advertisement that says, if you have gray nails, one infects two, which shows that gray nails are contagious, and the most important thing is to infect yourself, and secondly, gray nails are often accompanied by foot fungus, so when you wear slippers or share a foot wash basin, you may infect each other, of course, the probability of this may be a little smaller, but it is certainly there.

The main component of the nail is keratin, and the fungus is particularly fond of keratin as food, so we have gray nails in this case, it will happen that the fungus constantly erode our nail plate, resulting in our nails appear thickening, yellowing or whitening as well as underneath the nail debris, nail destruction and a series of performance. Because gray nails are often combined with foot fungus, and improper treatment of foot fungus, especially this type of foot fungus in which the toes are put whitish, it is very easy to have redness, swelling and heat pain due to the breakthrough of the erosion secondary to bacterial infection. There is also a kind of people like to use their hands to pick their feet or to pick gray nails, then the fungus may be infected to the nails on the hands, resulting in gray nails on the hands, as well as fungal infections in the palms of the hands, which we call ringworm.

Therefore, gray nails should be given treatment aggressively, even though the gray nail itself it doesn't hurt or itch, it just affects the aesthetics, but the presence of the fungus gives the possibility of other problems. If the gray nail is only limited to the distal end of the nail, or if the surface of the nail is white, you can consider using topical antifungal medication such as amorphophallus rub to adhere to the treatment. However, no matter what kind of external drug treatment, its effect is relatively poor, usually in our hospital treatment of gray nails are through the oral antifungal drugs to achieve a therapeutic purpose, usually 3 to 4 months of continuous oral if the gray nails on the feet, if it is on the hands of the words we recommend oral 2 to 3 months, about 80% of the patients can be cured. It is not recommended to go out to the manicure store for the treatment of gray nails, because it is more expensive, and the effect is not particularly ideal.

That's why it's still very important to treat gray nails aggressively.

First, we introduce what is gray nail. What we call gray nails in life is often categorized medically as onychomycosis, a nail fungus disease, which we will describe below:

First, ringworm of the nail is mostly due to the nail tissue degenerative disease caused by the nail fungus invading the nail and the tissue under the nail. Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mustelii, and flocculent epidermidis are common onychomycetes. There are two types of onychomycosis: subungual onychomycosis and fungal white nails. Subungual onychomycosis usually starts at the ends of the nails, and there is mild onychomycosis at the beginning, which is mostly manifested as white spots, and then there are concave spots or grooves on the surface of the nails. With the gradual infection of the nail plate by the onychomycosis fungus, the nail plate will be cracked and thickened, and then become brownish-black; fungal white nail mostly has cloudy dots in the center of the nail plate or near the crescent area, or spreads to the whole nail, and the nail surface is often softer, and sometimes it can be asymptomatic.

Second, nail fungal disease is mostly caused by Candida albicans, filamentous fungi, yeast-like fungi, yeast and so on. If it is caused by Candida, it is mostly combined with onychomycosis, and accompanied by local skin redness, swelling and pressure pain. Fingernails are more susceptible to infection compared to toenails, and are mostly seen in housewives, cooks, etc. who are in constant contact with water.

Many diseases can cause nail lesions, including psoriasis, lichen planus, eczema, scleroderma, Raynaud's disease, etc. However, the nail lesions of the above diseases are mostly symmetrical, or involve multiple fingers, while gray nails are mostly a nail lesion at the beginning. In addition, a fungal test in the hospital is also a good way to identify gray nails.

Gray nail is a contagious disease. For patients with nail dystrophy, it is important to prevent fungal infections from triggering gray nails. When gray nails appear on one finger, if it is not treated in time, the fungal infection will aggravate and spread to the neighboring fingers. Therefore, if you have gray nails, you should go to the regular hospital for examination and receive specialized treatment.

Respondent: Zhou Mengyuan, M.D.

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You want to ask if foot odor and gray nails can be cured? I say it must be able to!

Although the fungus that infects pediculosis and onychomycosis is the same type, there's no denying that gray toenails are much more difficult to treat than foot fungus.

First of all, the treatment cycle is different, tinea pedis is usually adhered to the treatment 4~8 weeks can, while the nail ringworm treatment cycle is a little longer.

Secondly, the drugs used are similar, but since onychomycosis is at the distal end of the body, it is not easy for the drugs to reach to play a bactericidal role, so the dosage of drugs is large and the duration of drug use is long, which has some damage to the liver, and regular monitoring of liver function is required.

Thirdly, both are caused by fungal infections and can be a source of fungal disease. However, onychomycosis is more likely to spread, and objects touched by the hands may carry the causative fungus.

Fourth, tinea pedis is more often manifested as itchy feet, while gray nails will affect the aesthetic appearance, and it will have a blow to the patient's psychology. People who have been infected with gray nails are more likely to want to be cured sooner.

Treatment

Current treatments, i.e., a combination of internal, external, and nail removal.

The first step is the removal of diseased nails. Just metabolizing the nails on your own won't work. So you need to take the initiative to remove it. Clinical evidence shows that although nail extraction can remove the sick nail once, but the recurrence rate is very high. It is recommended to use a knife to scrape the nail day by day, the thinner the better, until it does not hurt. Use 10% lactic acid iodine or 30% glacial acetic acid externally, or use 10% salicylic acid ointment to bandage the nail, and take drugs internally along with the externally applied drugs for a comprehensive treatment.

The second step, internal medication, is the same as tinea pedis, and there are usually antifungal medications such as terbinafine, itraconazole, and fluconazole.

The third step is topical medication. Since it is more difficult for internal medication to reach the lesion, it is necessary to use topical medication for synergistic treatment. Terbinafine hydrochloride cream, or compound povidone iodine application, focusing on the toenail and the surrounding area.

Paying attention to the following points will help to eradicate gray nails!

1, the timing of treatment can be selected in summer and fall, nail growth is vigorous, will shorten the treatment time.

2, to avoid cross-infection, especially with family and friends, and increase the difficulty of healing.

3. It is recommended that the items touched be ultraviolet sterilized.

4. Persistence! Don't give up halfway or you'll go back and forth.

5, nail fungus is a chronic fungal infection, not all nails and are nail fungus, need to be diagnosed by a doctor after the use of medication, avoid indiscriminate use of drugs.

6. As most of the internal antifungal drugs have hepatotoxicity, please assess your liver function under the guidance of your doctor before choosing to use them.

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Dr. Clove is here to answer that question.

Gray nails, scientifically known as "onychomycosis," refers to a fungal infection that occurs around the nails.

Gray nails are indeed contagious to others, but not very contagious; it is caused by a microbial infection, but it usually still occurs on the basis of having tinea versicolor itself and leaving it untreated for a long period of time.

For example, the most common cause of gray nails is red trichophyton, and the most common disease caused by this fungus is tinea pedis, more than half of the patients with gray nails, is due to the prolonged untreated spread of tinea pedis.

People with tinea pedis or gray fingernails who share slippers and bath products with others usually show tinea pedis first when others are infected.

If the infected person also do not go to the treatment of this tinea versicolor, over time only to develop into gray nails, very few people through the nail touching the nails directly to get nail fungus.

Content reference to Dr. Clove's scientific article: "TheWhen you have gray nails, one infects both, what else can you do besides pulling out your nails?》

Original Author / Chen Yulan丨Dermatologist

Author / Lee Bad

Hello and thank you for your question.

I'm Pharmacist Ping and I'm happy to answer your questions.

Gray nails are contagious.

Gray nails, also known as nail fungus or onychomycosis, is a chronic skin condition caused by a fungal infection.

Here are a few such conditions that are more likely to be contagious.

1. A large part of this is due to the fact that patientsHaving ringworm of the hands or feet yourself.It is not treated properly and thus infects the fingernails or toenails.
2. There's another possibility.Traumatized nails, caused by fungal infection directly to the deck in this weaker state.
3. Many women feel bad about having gray nails and run for amanicure and-or pedicureCover it up. In such a case, many nail salon tools, if not sterilized well, or their countertops are not timely or qualified disinfection will be easy to residual fungi. Women who go to nail salons just for the sake of beauty are easily infected with gray nails when they come into contact with these.
   
   
   
4. Of course there is also the case that the person himself has a realGenetics of bacterial susceptibility. Will be more susceptible to infection than the average person.
5. Close family contactIf any of your friends has one, advise her to treat it. This is especially true if you have a baby at home.

If you have a gray fingernail buddy near you.Advise him to go to a regular hospital for systematic treatment. Many people use a lot of remedies or miracle remedies or go to roadside stores for pedicures. These can certainly go, but whether or not the problem can be solved in the end is another matter.

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