{"id":584,"date":"2020-04-09T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/?page_id=584"},"modified":"2020-04-09T21:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:19:39","slug":"fungalnailinfection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/318-2\/fungalnailinfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungal nail infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/laserforfungalnails.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/before-after-lunula-1.jpg?w=580&#038;h=274&#038;fit=300%2C274\" alt=\"before after lunula 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em>Did you know that more than 10% of the population have fungally infected nails (onychomycosis)?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">What are fungal nails (onychomycosis)?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of the toenails. Dermatophytes are the fungi most commonly responsible for onychomycosis.<\/p>\n<p>It is a very common condition and is estimated to impact at least 10% of the worldwide population. You may suffer from onychomycosis if you have one or more of the following symptoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thickened nail<\/li>\n<li>Crumbly or brittle nail<\/li>\n<li>Nail distorted in shape or separated<\/li>\n<li>Nail with no luster or shine<\/li>\n<li>A white, yellow, or brown coloured nail, caused by debris build-up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This embarrassing and unsightly problem facing millions of people has been dif\ufb01cult to treat safely and effectively with oral medications, topical drugs, or hot lasers.How do I treat them?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Oral<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Fungus Medications<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>are linked to side effects and serious long-term health risks, including liver damage and heart failure.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Topic<\/strong><strong>al<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Drugs<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0are often ineffective because they cannot penetrate through the nail to reach the infection.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Hot<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Laser<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Treatments<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>are often painful and ineffective because they cannot properly treat the entire nail<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"maxbutton-28 maxbutton maxbutton-laser-treatment\" href=\"http:\/\/podiatrynew\/what-is-fungal-nail-infection\/laser-treatment\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Laser treatment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that more than 10% of the population have fungally infected nails (onychomycosis)? What are fungal nails (onychomycosis)? Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of the toenails. Dermatophytes are the fungi most commonly responsible for onychomycosis. It is a very common condition and is estimated to impact at least 10% of the worldwide population. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":318,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa9kLs-9q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584\/revisions\/605"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/headandshort.co.uk\/podiatrynew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}