Can iodine treat onychomycosis?

Iodine can kill pathogens, and it can denature the protein of pathogens. Iodine can kill bacteria, fungi, viruses and amoeba, and can be used to treat a variety of bacterial, fungal and viral skin diseases. Generally, the process of treating onychomycosis with iodine is mainly as follows: 2% iodine is applied to the deck (5% iodine is better), and the application range is slightly beyond the scope of the lesion, twice a day, with fingernails for 3 months and toenails for 6 months as a course of treatment. Just doesn't mean iodine can treat onychomycosis. Iodine can kill fungi, but iodine can't kill Trichophyton rubrum quickly and completely. Scientific research has found that it usually takes nearly five to six months for iodine to completely eliminate Trichophyton rubrum, which means it takes nearly half a year to be effective. This does not mean that the fungus in the diseased nail has completely disappeared. In fact, most of the fungi that cause onychomycosis are hidden under the deck, so it is difficult to penetrate into the nails simply by applying iodine, let alone sterilize them on the nail bed. Therefore, most patients who use iodine for treatment often cannot completely cure onychomycosis, which is the reason.

The Institute of Dermatology of China Academy of Sciences adopted osmotic softening therapy to treat onychomycosis. The principle of osmotic softening therapy for onychomycosis is as follows: for stubborn onychomycosis caused by various fungi, biochemistry, molecular biology and biological extraction techniques are used to penetrate into the dermis of the diseased nail and kill the fungi hidden under the diseased nail; Waldmann UV80 1 microwave radiation combined with drug iontophoresis can make the effective bactericidal components easily penetrate into the diseased nail, kill the fungi hidden under the diseased nail, and at the same time maintain the nail bed, cut off the source of infection, and achieve sterilization maintenance as a whole, with immediate curative effect, lasting stability and no recurrence.