Nail fungus is a condition that afflicts people on the nails that cover their toes and fingers. It is a very disfiguring condition – and if unchecked, can result in long term or even permanent damage to the afflicted toes. Even with a mild case of nail fungus, you will tend to find yourself ashamed to even walk around with your much loved open shoes: for fear of what people will say about the state of your toes. In other words, nail fungus is the type of condition which tends to make a person look as if they are not taking good care of themselves.
Now it is often said that the way to fight and win against an enemy is by first understanding him. It would similarly follow that the way to win your fight against nail fungus (and keep it away), is by understanding the causes of it – and what (if anything), you can do about them.
1) The first major cause of nail fungus is exposure of the toe and finger nails to persistent moist and warm conditions. These are exactly the type of conditions that fungus causing the infection thrives in. Indeed, these are also the types of conditions that other types of disease causing micro organisms thrive in, especially where the moisture and warmth (also called humidity) happens to exists alongside poor hygienic conditions.
The key to avoiding this cause of nail fungus infection is of course avoiding continuous exposure of your fingers and toes to moisture and humidity. If those body parts must be exposed to such moist and warm conditions, then by all means, try to take some mitigating measures.
2) The second major cause of nail fungus is compromised immunity. The fungus that causes this infection is a type of fungus that a strong immunity should be able to ward off quite easily. Most of the people who suffer from nail fungus tend to be people whose immunity is either compromised, or in the process of being compromised.
The thing to do about the second cause of nail fungus would be to take measures – like proper nutrition (with emphasis on foods that are known to strengthen immunity) – to keep your immunity strong. By so doing, of course, you will not only be protecting yourself from nail fungus, but also from a host of other diseases (and indeed, from all micro organism caused diseases).
3) The third major cause of nail fungus, specifically the type of it that afflicts toe nails (which is by the most common type of it) is wearing poorly ventilated shoes. These are shoes that have no ‘breathing’ space for the feet –and no inlet for fresh air from outside to get into them. Wearing them causes the feet to perspire heavily, while the lack of air from outside means that temperatures inside them rise significantly. This creates the moist (due to perspiration) and warm (due to lack of air from outside) conditions discussed earlier as being the ideal conditions that nail fungus thrives in.
The thing to do about this cause of nail fungus infection would of course be to make ‘ventilation’ an important consideration when shopping for shoes, and ensure that you only buy and wear well ventilated shoes.
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