METHOD FOR TREATING MYCOTIC INFECTIONS OF NAILS (ONYCHOMYCOSES) Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A61P31/10 

FIELD: medicine, mycology, dermatology.

SUBSTANCE: it is necessary to remove the affected part of a nail due to applying the equipment for apparatus chiropody. First, it is important to treat the protruded part of a nail with chiropody cutting pliers, then with a large metal drill with a transverse notch being a constituent of a chiropody set. One should scrape off the main hyperkeratotic masses, moreover, the thickness of nail reduced by one half. One should take a small metallic cutting with oblique transverse grooves out of chiropody apparatus set to remove hyperkeratotic masses up to a nail bed along the edge of a nail's healthy part. After that, with the help of a ceramic polisher one should polish the rest healthy part of a nail and the whole nail bed. After polishing one should treat a nail with antiseptic solution and apply a lacquer being of antimycotic action. The mentioned apparatus treatment should be fulfilled once monthly till the growth of healthy nails. Simultaneously, it is necessary to prescribe "Orungal" according to pulse therapy technique per 400 mg/d for 7 d followed by a 3-wk-long interval. At treating onychomycoses of feet one should apply about 3-4 course, that of wrists - 2 courses of pulse therapy. For softening nails one should apply a softening agent of "Gewol" firm (FRG). As lacquer being of antimycotic action one should apply "Loceryl". The innovation excludes traumatism of a nail bed, excludes hemorrhage and shortens terms of therapy.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy.

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