How can a child get infected with fungal skin diseases? Can a fungal infection cure herself? How to warn fungal infection in children? Learn from this article.
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Natalia Nikolaevna, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Doctor Dermatologist High Categories.
Infectious skin diseases in children are currently quite rare. These include fungal skin infection. Recently, the incidence of fungal diseases of the skin in children and adults is steadily growing. Such a coincidence is not accidental, children are often infected with adult mikozami.
The pathogens of fungal infections are very diverse, as well as their sources. Mushrooms causing diseases in humans are found everywhere. Most of them are parasitized only by the person himself, and the source of such infections serves as a patient with mycosis.
All types of pathogens of fungal diseases are distinguished by stability in the external environment and to the effects of drugs.
One of the reasons for the prevalence of mycoses is the absence for a long time of reliable treatments for the treatment of illness in humans, which appeared in the arsenal of dermatologists only in the last decade.
How can a child get infected with fungal skin diseases?
In the environment, mushrooms are very common, but only some of them can exist on the skin and mucous mehers. Under some conditions of life of the sick pathogens of fungal infections rather quickly distribute in the apartment, and a thin, containing enough moisture of the child's skin contributes to the light penetration of the fungus in the skin and the rapid development of the disease.
The source of acutely consentic fungal diseases in children affecting not only smooth skin, but also the hair of the head, in urban conditions there may be sick stray cats and dogs. In rural areas, a source of fungal infection can be calves, cows, horses. With a careful inspection of an animal, you can see areas of skin cover with missing wool. If the infection occurred from sick animals, diseases known as "ringworm". Such a name these diseases were obtained due to the frequently occurring lesions of hair having a different length. Rounded pink spots appear on smooth skin. Treatment of such a variety of methods should be carried out by a Mikologo doctor in a special center until full cure.
Much less often the infection of children is a fungus, striking only people. In these cases, infection occurs both by adults who care for children and through household items, for which skin scales of patient, containing fungi. Infection can occur in the bath, pool, on the beach, when visiting sports halls, although a child's infection is much more often happening in the family when using a patient's footwear, through carpets, if they hit the scales of the patient's skin, containing the pathogen. With fungal diseases, skin and nail plates are affected. Flashing spots appear on the skin, the color of the nails changes, they can thicken or rush.
Can a fungal infection cure herself?
Can not. If you do not carry out treatment, the fungal infection will spread on the skin, hitting all the new sections or causing complications in the form of eczema, allergic reactions or purulent skin infections.
Is it possible to fully cure the fungal infection of the skin in a child?
Undoubtedly. Currently, there are reliable and safe methods of therapy for fungal diseases. The treatment is carried out outpatient or in the hospital, depending on the type of fungus, which caused the disease. Drugs general and local exposure are successfully used. Modern antifungal agents make it pretty quickly to achieve a good effect in treatment. However, the treatment of mycoses in children must be carried out under the supervision of a doctor - a dermatologist, which can evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment and recovery of the patient.
Is it possible to re-infection with fungal infection?
Re-infection is possible, since immunity against fungal infection is absent. As a rule, infection occurs when precautions are non-compliance.
How to warn fungal infection in children?
First of all, it is necessary to eliminate the contacts of children with stray animals. Unfortunately, in the conditions of the Big City currently it is not easy to do. If you decide to shelter a kitten or a puppy, show the animal veterinarian in order to determine whether your new family member is healthy.
Make sure that adults who have contact with your baby have no fungal lesions of the skin or nails. If the family has a patient with fungal skin or nails, you should not use a towel, shoes, manicure.
If your child visits the pool, secure it with rubber slippers and make sure that he put them.
Support cleanliness in the apartment and bathroom. If adult family members or the child have signs of fungal diseases, as soon as possible consult a doctor.
