Yellow, discolored, thickened or otherwise deformed toenails or fingernail are true signals of fungal infection, which means that some type of microscopic organisms decided to settle under one’s nails and started rapid activity with eating the proteins of the nails and depositing wastes underneath. Well, nail fungus can definitely be uncomfortable, embarrassing, and disgusting. But do not forget that nail fungus can be and should be treated.
The common approach to treating nail fungus is to use oral antifungal medications, such as Sporanox, Diflucan or Lamisil. However, these medications are systemic, which means they are absorbed into the bloodstream and then distributed throughout the body, where in some places they fight fungi, but in other places they cause side effects. The risk of adverse reactions, ranging from mild skin rash to serious liver and kidney problems is the key concern about using oral antifungal drugs. Yellow or deformed toenail is hardly worthy of damaged liver, isn’t it?
Happily, there is one more option to fight nail fungus. It is called Penlac Nail Lacquer, and it is the only FDA-approved treatment of nail fungus in the form of topical solution. Of course, eliminating fungi is usually time-consuming, but if one suffers from mild or moderate infection, Penlac should definitely be considered as the option to kill fungi and avoid serious side effects.
Penlac with the active ingredient called ciclopirox was developed by Sanofi Aventis. The medication was approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1999. These days Penlac is available only by prescription on the territory of the USA.
In order to fight nail fungus with the help of Penlac, a patient is first of all recommended to stock up patience (six months is usually required to notice the first improvements of symptoms) and accuracy (one will need to stick to a daily routine of applying Penlac in order to achieve therapeutic results).
So, once a patient is ready emotionally to start a half-a-year fight with fungi in the name of clean and beautiful nails, he can start the procedure.
Penlac should be applied once daily (preferable at bedtime) to all the affected nails with the special applicator brush provided. All the subsequent layers of Penlac should be applied over the previous one; and only once a week the medication should be removed with alcohol. Once per week after Penlac is removed, one should trim his nails and remove all the loose nail material. After that a new layer of Penlac is applied. Such cycle should be repeated regularly throughout the whole treatment period. Besides, a patient is recommended to visit his health care professional in order to additionally trim infected nails and remove horny material.
Finally, there is one more thing that a patient should arm himself with prior to deciding to use Penlac against fungi. It is an inexhaustible source of optimism… The point is that statistically Penlac is effective only in less than 10% of cases. Of 118 participants of the clinical trial with this drug, only 10 patients were lucky to eliminate fungi completely, and 14 people reduced the infected surface. On the other hand - none of them suffered serious side effects…
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