A fight with fungus.

 A mushroom harvest including are beautiful  gifts from gardens, forests, parks. But,  poison mushrooms are not eatable, like growing on Earth and living in air, water.But other kinds calling fungus , where are feeding environment is human, where damaging of fungus is chronic infection diseases with a serious complication . Would a win   fight with fungus?And,  on the question for Press Healing letters answered a doctor by high category , mycologist , and dermatologist A.A. Zenkevich.

1. Dear Alex, which  a dangerous for humans are causing of fungus?100  kinds of fungus having in medical practise, affecting ability of our organism, mycologists  as specialists by fungus are secreting pathogenic , and conditionally pathogenic are agents of deep mycosis, are causing external signs of disease , but damaging inside organs as muscles, joints, heart, lungs, head brain, till dead cases . But,  these funguses  are not filling Europe, a most often meeting in South America, and Africa, but rare cases and introduced, as in moderate and north widths are surface mycosis agents, which damaging our skin, hairs, nails.

2. You are said, that fungus damaging skin. Yes a first is hair part of head suffering children's  and till a school, since 14-15 y.old this damage meeting rare, as peoples feared his and called ringworm , today its calling microsporic or trichophytium  of hairs head part and infecting children's from cats. It's   a whole group of fungus diseases, in adult not meeting ,its tie with peculiarities and structures for hairs growing and skin immunity.

3. Would i can to infect this fungus  from dogs ?

Yes, its zoophilia fungus is microspore  canis , as canis on Latin  is dog, but not from a dog infecting, but from the cats, and hide displaying, thus veterinary will put diagnosis right. But sometimes we are at home entering fungus from shoes or trousers, and animals are rubbing in us also infected through pur clothes and shoes, thus after walk, ability to infect an own animal, and he is to us, thus an importance needing veterinary checking.

4. A which fungus damaging a skin and nails? Adult infection is epidermophytis  as her a causing fungus epidermophutium  or triophytium . If damages just a horn layer of skin, we are having epidermophytis  are young peoples sick and middle age , but when fungus attaching to are horns of nails plates it's onymycomycosis as in adult peoples, but meeting in adults too. Disease beginning with  a small peeling, redness.  Not itching, and this hide stage stretching on many months, years. And such patients infecting items at public places, that not knowing, that they are infected. Every 1 third-fourth adult having it, and checking patients am in lot finding fungus infections signs, which nothing worries theirs.

5. A which reason fungus feet beginning displaying activity?

And its a first immunity lowering, or after virus infection, or in adult changes, thus a fungus having in adults. A second, that external provoking factors having, as in sportsmen, or who is often wearing rubber shoes and in high feet sweating. Opened pools, halls sporty, fitness clubs , other places are high spreaders for fungus, and easy infecting.

 6. Would am to infect from items from my home?Yes, you can, and today is raised in family fungus, when in family having adult with fungus, and sources are fingers between wrinkles, nail plates, feets, such patient spreading spores of fungus and infecting carpet in bath, soft furniture, common slippers, and in result other family members exchanging spores and infecting, as one day they are infecting in a displaying provoking factor, where developing an acute flash of mycosis .As a human after walk wetted legs, and in staying long time in wetted shoes a horn of layer is fragility, and for fungus offering good conditions for disease development is easy transferring in acute form.

7. Would a fungus damage inside organs?

In our inside organs European fungus is nothing to do, his feed is ceratine, manufacturing by cells  a epidermis of skin. Here in a horn skin layer is finding meal, and here and spreading , leaving spores. Slowly transfer on the nail roller, under nail going, nail plates damaging, and delaying process for many years.

8. Why is this happens? An usually going with complaints on the acute displays, a damage to smooth skin with horn layer, in skin wrinkles with a bad feeling, and on a time, when  a latent or hide fungus on legs nothing causing a discomfort. Thus,  a checking patient in body region ,where are having red peeling, secreting a liquid as oozing is ache, and am always checking feets. And of course in a few cases are fault foreign towels or sponges, but a most often patient with latent form of fungus on feet by own hands her transferred on an other places.