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What Can I Do About Embarrasing Yellow Toenails?

By Eugene Williams

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Published: 14Jul2008
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Are you one of over 40 million Americans who harbor yellow toenails? Actually the causative agent of these discolored toenails are a fungus called onychomycosis. This fungus doesn't just cause toenails to become yellow but also green or another darker color. This informative article reveals the symptoms, cause and preventative measures you can take to stifle onychomycosis.

What Are The Symptoms?

Onychomycosis is a prevalent fungus that affects millions of Americans. These fungi can turn toenails yellow, green or some other dark color. Below is a list of other symptoms.

-Flaky and thick nails

-Splitting of the nail

-Pit marks on the nails

-A collection of debris under the nail, which can cause a foul odor

What Are The Causes?

To begin with, fungi inhabit warm, dark and moist types of environments including stockings, socks and shoes. These fungi infect your toenail beds when the protective nail surface becomes damaged or broken.

Did you stop to notice that on a day-to-day basis our feet go through a great deal of wear and tear? This constant pounding can allow these fungi, which are opportunists to establish a stronghold in a weakened area of our nail bed. Activities such as jumping, running, playing tennis and banging our feet can cause a break in the nail or fracture, which allows the fungi a great opportunity to infect the area. After the fungi take over an area of the nail it becomes incredibly difficult to get rid of these fungi.

A prevalent manner in which you might become infected with onychomycosis is by person-to-person contact. A few places for example where you can become infected is at a pool or shower, health clubs, and a shaved emery board like a professional nail salon.

What Are Ways To Deal With Yellow Toenails?

As I wrote down earlier it can become increasingly difficult to get rid of these fungi, after they infect a particular area. One way to potentially prevent these fungi from invading and disrupting our tissues is to wear well fitting shoes, this should help the toes from being damaged. The big toe should be at least the width of a thumb from the end of the shoe.

There are some viable methods to ridding the nail beds of these fungi, but you need the correct information on solutions to complete healing. If the toenail doesn't heal after topical ointments call a good podiatrist.

DISCLAIMER

The information provided herein should not be construed as a health-care diagnosis, treatment regimen or any other prescribed health-care advice or instruction. The information is provided with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in the practice of medicine or any other health-care profession and does not enter into a health-care practioner/ patient relationship with its readers.

There are over 40 million people who harbor the fungi that causes yellow and thickened toenails. The author has access to a credible source who has great results dealing with this fungi. For more check out http://www.born-again-health-and-fitness.com/yellow-toenails.html

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