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September 21, 2012Onychomycosis is common condition of the toenails caused by a fungus. Usually it caused a deformity and discolouration of the nail plate, but a minor infection may just be a white discolouration or patch. It is not painful, but looks unsightly and can be embarrassing to the person with it to show their feet in public. The main risk factor for this is the moist environment inside shoes. The fungus loves that sort of environment. Treatment is difficult and prolonged as the fungus gets well established inside the nail plate, so any topical agent or internal drug as to penetrate that nail plate before it can work. The success rates of most treatments are disappointing due to the re-infection rate being so high. The reason for this is that most people with onychomycosis just put their feet right back into that dark moist environment that caused it in the first place. Whichever method of treatment that is used, you need to be patient and stick at it for the long haul and not expose the foot to the environment that caused it in the first place.