Toenail Fungus Facts

How Can I Tell If I Have A Toenail Fungal Infection?

There are many symptoms of a toenail fungal infection.  These include:

• A change in the toenail’s color: your toenails can become yellow, brown, or black due to a toenail fungal infection. Your toenails can look streaky or uneven. They may become darker with the passage of time. This discoloration is caused by the growth of fungus below the nail.

• A change in toenail thickness. A toenail fungal infection can cause your toenails to become quite thick. In severe cases, this can make it difficult to wear shoes.
• A change in toenail quality. Toenails that are crumbly, that are brittle or cracked, or that flake apart are all signs that you may have a toenail fungal infection.

If you think you have a toenail fungal infection, you should know: there is a foot fungus cure!

What Causes Toenail Fungus?

• Toenail fungus, or Onychomycosis, occurs when microscopic fungi gain entry through a small trauma in the nail, then grow and spread in the warm, moist environment inside socks and shoes.
• Fungus is found everywhere in the environment, but most infections are picked up in gyms, locker rooms, showers and nail salons, or stem from athlete’s foot infections.

Who Gets Toenail Fungal Infections?

• Toenail fungus infections are most common among older adults, and tend to affect men more often than women.
• Toenail fungus affects at least half of the American population age 70 or younger– that’s approximately 35 million Americans each year.

Is It Possible to Remove Toenail Fungus?

• There is a cure for toenail fungus! You don’t have to live with discolored, embarrassing, painful toenails.
• Topical treatments for toenail fungus do not work.