What to do if you have onychomycosis during breastfeeding? Sterilization treatment is the key

Skin diseases such as onychomycosis may not be difficult to treat in normal times, but during the period of breastfeeding, if you get onychomycosis, you will worry about whether it will affect the baby. If you don’t treat it, you will also worry about the baby’s health. So many mothers are more concerned about what to do if they get onychomycosis during breastfeeding?

1. Onychomycosis is a common name for an infectious disease that occurs on human nails. Medically, it was previously called onychomycosis, but now it is called onychomycosis. It is caused by a large class of microbial infections called pathogenic fungi. There are many types of pathogenic fungi that can cause onychomycosis, the most important of which are dermatophytes, which live around us, on animals (found in cats, dogs, pigs, etc.), and in the rashes of patients with dermatophyte diseases. The common pathogenesis is that tinea manuum and pedis can cause onychomycosis, and a small number of patients have onychomycosis caused by traumatic infection.

2. If a mother gets onychomycosis during breastfeeding, don’t worry too much, because at this time you have already given birth to a baby, and the baby is in good condition, which means that the baby has not been infected with onychomycosis, and the family members around you have not been infected, which is fortunate.

3. During the breastfeeding period, the mother can start treatment as soon as the baby is three months old. Do not delay any further to avoid the condition becoming more serious and increasing the risk of infection. To treat onychomycosis during breastfeeding, you must go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment, choose safe products, and adhere to the doctor's instructions and cooperate with active treatment.

We all know that onychomycosis is a fungal skin disease that is also contagious and difficult to treat. Therefore, you must follow the doctor's advice and actively receive treatment to get a complete cure.