Onycholysis - Causes, Symptoms, & Remedies
June 26th, 2007
Onycholysis is caused by:
- Skin disease
- Injury to the hands
- Infection of the nail
- It can also result from too much filing of the nails
- Exposed to too many chemicals
- Allergic reaction to a glue or nail hardener
- or the hands being submersed in water too often
Onycholysis happens when the nail becomes separated from the nail bed and is often times, painless. The disease called “psoriasis” can lead to onycholysis and is it very hard to tell these two infections apart from another.
Symptoms of Onycholysis:
Most often several nails are affected despite the culprit. Infections from bacteria turn the loose part of a nail green. Yeast can grow in the space found under the nail and will turn the nail white or yellow. In order to the nail to attach it’s again, the bacteria or yeast have to be taken care of first before the nail becomes permanently deformed.
Remedies for Onycholysis:
Here is a list of treatments for Onyclysis:
- First start by clipping all of the non-attached nails off
- Keep the infected hand away from water as much as you can
- Use rubber gloves when having to deal with chemicals and water
- avoid mechanical cleaning under nail
- Do not place bandages over the cut nails
- Use a drying agent like Thymol after washing hands for three months
- Trim nails on a daily basis until the nail reattaches
- Oral medications in sever cases need to be used
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