Cutaneous Fungal Infection

Cutaneous Fungal Infection – General Information

Cutaneous Fungal Infection – Symptoms

Cutaneous Fungal Infection – Treatment

The diagnosis for the Cutaneous Fungal Infection is based on medical tests that are made on samples of the patient’s surface of the skin, taking in consideration the risk factors to which the individual has been exposed. In most of the cases the disease can be treated with several antifungal medicines prescribed as clotrimazole, Econazole, Ciclopirox, Miconazole, ketoconazole or Nystatin. The treatment of the Cutaneous Fungal Infection depends on the disease’s cause. If the infection is a bacterial one, the available treatment is a trial with Fluconazole or Itraconazole, administered orally. For the severe form of the disease, called Candida granuloma, the treatment consists in two treatment trials. One involves a dose of Itraconazole that should be taken every day for five months, and the other one consisting in a pulsed dose that should be taken daily for seven days followed by a treatment pause of about 21 days. Obese patients can try to lose weight to clear the problems, and individuals suffering from diabetes can try to control their sugar levels. The most important way to treat Cutaneous Fungal Infection is to keep a general healthy hygiene. Each patient has to maintain his skin dry and he must expose it to fresh air as much as possible. There are cases, in which the doctor recommends a systemic treatment with azoles (an agent containing two groups of compounds, imidazoles and triazoles).

For Cutaneous Fungal Infection, the main treatment aims to control the excessive moisture and friction, which can lead to local skin maceration. In these cases the doctor has to prescribe a treatment consisting in a topical imidazole trial that generally proves to be very effective. There are cases in which this treatment is administered in combination with a topical steroid called hydrocortisone. For the oral form of the Cutaneous Fungal Infection, the main treatment is a therapy with Nystatin, administered orally, after meals. While type of treatment is usually used in infants, for the older patients a dose of amphotericin B proves to be very effective. For the vaginal form of the disease, azole creams are usually used to achieve a fast improvement, but doctors usually prescribe the treatment with Fluconazole, thus increasing its effectiveness in almost all the cases. For the neutropenic patients who suffer from this type of disease, the doctor usually prescribes treatment trials with amphotericin B in high doses like 1.0 mg per day, in combination with another medicine called Flucytosine that should be administered in doses of about 150 mg per day. There are many treatment options that can be applied to treat this type of fungal disease. For the immuno-suppressed patients it can be impossible to correct the underlying predisposing conditions which caused the disease. In these cases the doctor can prescribe an oral treatment with Fluconazole in100 to 400 mg per day doses for about two weeks. This type of treatment can also be applied in patients who suffer from the oropharangeal form of the disease. Usually, the disorder can be easily prevented by keeping a general hygiene or maintaining the skin dry as much as possible.