i recently came across an ad on a youtube video that talked about fungal nails and that if you
don't cure them they can kill you and i just need to set the record straight and fungal nails will
not kill you fungal nail the fungus that causes the fungal nails and athlete's foot by the way
same fungus does not go into the bloodstream it stays in the skin and skin structures so
the only way this stuff can kill you is if it creates i don't know an open wound on your foot
for example or an ingrown toenail that becomes infected and it's not treated then yes i guess
in that way it can but for the vast majority of people the the fungus stays in the skin
and the skin structures and will not make you sick so unless the fungal nails are very painful
or keeping you from wearing shoes that you need to be wearing or doing activities that you need
to be doing it really is a choice if you want to treat them or not most of us would if we can but
i just want to make sure that everybody understands whether that ad played right before
this video or not that fungal nails will not kill you so with that i hope you enjoy the video too
okay if anything i do hurts you let me know
yeah so these nails are also fungal and it's the same fungus that
causes the athlete's foot that causes nails like these and so
it doesn't go into your bloodstream it won't make you sick but
it will keep reinfecting if we don't do something to get rid of it
we'll thin all this out when we're done
so when when are you going to start work again in two more weeks two weeks well
that says a lot if your old boss called you and said we got a spot for you come apply
that's a huge acknowledgement you must have been a good worker before yeah
so is that working in one of the retail stores or yes okay
all right so this would be what we would call a little rams horn nail
because you see how it's curling up and curling around that's just because it's pretty long so
you want to keep it okay
i had a cartoon out of the paper i should have brought it
it was a little person who came with a baggie full of nails toenails and wondered if the tooth
fairy was giving money for teeth would they get money for toenails you people like us would laugh
at that but most people would not think that was all that funny it's just kind of gross all right
keep breathing
you always tell when people are holding their breath
so
i'm sorry that was pretty probably that hurt
leave that one it's not very long
so
it's going to feel so much better
now most of this is not attached so are you comfortable if i trim back everything that's
not attached the skin underneath is already toughened up my concern is that if we leave
a big floating piece like that that you're going to put your sock on one day and tear it right off
oh no no this won't hurt because it's not attached
it just will look a little funny because it'll be short
and also if you can get rid of kind of the athlete's foot under the nail as it's growing
back in it has a better chance of reattaching to the nail bed which is the skin underneath
so is this hurting at all not yet yeah you can feel it because it's moving toward the back here
but yeah it shouldn't be hurting
so
and i'll just thin that out so it doesn't it's not so thick
so
what's that feeling
so
this with the camera
are you able to see that
that's kind of correct um kind of wet
can you see that okay so this is pretty severe athlete's foot in between the toes
and so we're going to go ahead and on the bottom if you can see all around here
you can see the whole bottom of the foot especially around here that just
looks like dry skin but that this is just soft fuzz but all of this dry scaly stuff
you may have to back up more because it'd be that close sometimes
so you've got all this dry skin here especially around the heels
yeah okay and so that's not just dry skin that's a lot of athlete's foot
just a chronic low-grade athlete's foot and then you can see kind of in between the toes here
that would be itchy pretty itchy okay well thank you for letting us do the video
after the camera was turned off i did treat this patient with an oral antifungal as well
as some athlete's foot or anti-fungal cream to be putting on his feet every day in addition
if you're treating fungal nails or if you're treating athlete's foot same fungus remember
you do have to treat the insides of your shoes every night for about 90 days and you can do that
with either an athlete's foot spray or powder or you can also get these uv light sterilizers there
are some that are apma or american podiatric medical association approved so we know they
work and um that would be an alternative by the time you go through three or four cans of
athlete's foot sprayer powder you've paid for the light sterilizer anyway and it does work
and the reason for this is that even if you get rid of your athlete's foot or you treat
your fungal nails even with an oral medication the minute you put them back into the shoes if
the shoes have the fungus in it you'll reinfect yourself and it will be a never-ending cycle so
just remember if you're treating athlete's foot or fungal nails you do have to treat the insides of
your shoes every night for about 90 days so thank you for watching our video i hope this wasn't
you