SOUL4SOLES Foot Care and Beauty

Lacuna Method for Fungal Nails

You may have noticed some changes in the texture, quality and colour in your nails. Sometimes, it is seen after nail varnish or gels have been removed.

 

Typical signs tend to be a yellow or brown discolouration, nails may become thick, crumbly or brittle. Nails can become distorted, misshapen and may lift from the nail bed losing their healthy shine.

Fungal nail infections are caused by fungi, yeast and dermatophytes that naturally live on our skin.

When trauma occurs, i.e. trauma from footwear or stubbing your toe, the fungi can invade and thrive under the nail plate. In the moist warm environment of socks and shoes, the fungi thrive, causing damage, thickening and discolouration of the nail. This most commonly affects the big toes, but all nails are vulnerable.

Treatment is notoriously difficult as the nail plate acts as a barrier, shielding the area and creating the perfect warm and damp environment underneath for bugs to overpopulate.

Lacuna Method treatment for fungal nails involves drilling micro-holes painlessly into the damaged nail. This allows an anti-fungal agent to directly reach the infected skin under the nail.

As the nail is dead, the holes will remain and grow out naturally with the nail.