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Fungal Nail Infection Learning Center
Complications could include:
- Paronychia
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Skin Infections
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Recurrent Fungal Infections
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Detachment of Nail
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Fungal infections that return on the nails or in other parts of the body; Permanent damage to the nails; Skin infections, including paronychia;
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Onychomycosis is typically quite difficult to cure completely. Even if a clinical cure is achieved after long therapy with either topical or oral drugs, normal regrowth takes four to six months in the fingernails, and eight to 12 months in the toe...
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Paronychia is a skin infection that occurs around the nails.
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Clinical fungal infections are generally divided into four types: (1) superficial, including tinea versicolor, piedra, and tinea nigra; (2) cutaneous, including onychomycosis, tinea capitis, tinea corporis, tinea barbae, tinea pedis, and candidiasis of skin, mucosa, and nails; (3) subcutaneous, including mycetoma, sporotrichosis, and chromoblastomycosis; and (4) systemic, including North American blastomycosis and cryptococcosis. Superficial fungal infections are defined as infections in which a pathogen is restricted to the stratum corneum, with little or no tissue reaction.
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