Types of Candidiasis
Types of Candidiasis
Candida Intertrigo
It is the most common clinical form. It can affect large folds such as armpits, English, cleft, submammary region, lateral neck or small folds such as interdigital spaces of hands, feet and retroauricular region. The skin is red, slightly edematous and may have elements on the surface vesiculo pustules. It is very typical to observe how are you areas are delimited by a thin rim scaly lesions appearing satellites. The patient complained of severe itching and burning.
Onychomycosis Candidasa
Quite often appears in children and adults with thrush with interdigital intertrigo of small folds. May appear as a painful inflammation of periungual rim, accompanied by minimal purulent discharge or as a thickening of the nail plate with depressions and grooves transverse punctate.Diagnostics
The diagnosis is mainly clinical but is sometimes necessary to rely on a direct examination of scales or a mycological culture.
Treatments
Depending on the extent of infection and the condition of the patient chooses a topical or systemic. This can be used topically to 1 percent clotrimazole, miconazole, ketoconazole, sertoconazol, terbinafine or naftilina. Systemic treatments are most frequently used itraconazole or fluconazole. Prognosis is good to be healing both topical and systemic treatments. But if the predisposing factors of mycoses can not be corrected with a new infection.