{"id":8862,"date":"2012-12-27T15:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.advdermatology.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2020-02-27T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T19:32:16","slug":"treatments-nail-fungus-onychomycosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advdermatology.com\/blog\/treatments-nail-fungus-onychomycosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Treatments for Nail Fungus Known as Onychomycosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nail Fungus or Onychomycosis, is an infection of the nail bed often caused by a fungus called a dermatophyte.<\/p>\n<p>A fingernail or toenail infected with fungus will often have a yellow, thickened appearance with debris underneath the nail that crumbles easily. To determine if an individual has onychomycosis, we can perform a fungal culture which takes 3 weeks to grow.<\/p>\n<h2>There are topical and oral medications approved to treat this nail condition.<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Penlac is a topical antifungal in a nail polish form that is applied to the affected nails every day until they clear. This is practical if there are only a few nails involved and the infection is mild, otherwise the effectiveness is not great.<\/li>\n<li>The oral drug of choice is Lamisil, which is taken for a 2-3 month period (depending if it is fingernails or toenails), and has an 80% cure rate. It usually takes a full 6-12 months to see a completely normal, healthy nail again because nails only grow about a millimeter a month! There is an extremely small incidence of liver inflammation with this drug so we do need to monitor with blood tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have yellow thickened toenails that you want to look nice by spring\/summer, now is the time to come in for an evaluation and to start treatment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nail Fungus or Onychomycosis, is an infection of the nail bed often caused by a fungus called a dermatophyte. 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