It's the Small Things - Onychomycosis

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This episode dives into Onychomycosis, commonly known as nail fungus. We'll explore how these fungi affect your toenails, causing discoloration, thickening, and crumbling.

Don't worry! We'll cover various treatment options, from topical solutions to oral medications, and even laser treatments. Plus, get tips on preventing nail fungus through good foot hygiene.

Join Dr. Niket Sonpal, he'll help you tackle onychomycosis and reclaim your healthy toenails.

July 8, 2024

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0:00.0	Dearest gentle listener, we return back with this podcast host to tantalize your senses
0:06.4	with a personalized episode on different things you may encounter on the ton.
0:10.8	And in that ton is going to be your health care institution and the people who are going to present for this season's affairs are going to come with various different types of medical conditions.
0:21.0	Many have said that luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
0:27.0	Now, Lady Whistledown probably would stop right there, but I, Dr. Nakeet-SSompaul, your friendly neighborhood internist and
0:33.0	gastrointestinal-entrologists welcome you gentle listeners to this episode on
0:36.8	fingernails. Yes, hanging on by them may give you some more luck and
0:40.6	you might be able to get what you need. And fingernails are tiny things,
0:44.0	but they can also cause a lot of problems.
0:46.0	So welcome to this episode, on fingernails and the infections they can have.
0:50.0	Now we don't have a Taylor Swift cover by orchestra,
0:52.0	but let's cue that music anyway. Now this past week in the hospital I began to think there's so many small things in our body that can yield so many problems and one of those areas were nails.
1:14.6	Finger nails are very commonly decorated, painted, trimmed, and of course taken care of
1:20.5	but also they can cause a lot of problems. The big one is fungal nail infections,
1:26.7	also known as anachomycoses. It's a common problem. It happens all over the world, and some people believe that about 50 to 60 percent of all abnormal nails are due to this fungal infection.
1:39.0	Studies have shown that prevalence ranges from anywhere to one to nearly 10% of the population in the United States,
1:45.6	and most studies, but not every single one,
1:48.0	showed that it's a higher prevalence of an eco mycosies in males than females.
1:52.4	So who is responsible for these yellow and green? mycoses and males than females.
1:52.6	So who is responsible for these yellow and greenish nails?
1:56.2	Well, we know that it could be from dermatophytes,
1:58.7	geese, or moldy nail infections known as non-dromatophytes, but the most common are. the
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