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Fungal infection.

Frequent viral and bacterial diseases have taught people to be wary of sources of pollution and aerosol infections. The obviousness of the symptoms of a viral and bacterial infection insures a person, allowing him to recognize the presence of a disease in time. But with a fungal infection, things are different. The acute period of infection with a fungus can be asymptomatic, and a chronic fungal infection in its symptoms resembles many other diseases, for example, functional disorders, skin inflammatory diseases of non-infectious origin, occupational diseases and similar pathologies.

To understand that you are suffering from a fungal infection is possible only by showing maximum attentiveness to your own state of health. How to recognize a fungal infection?

Signs of a fungal infection can be camouflaged:

for viral and bacterial diseases of the respiratory system, for the results of harmful effects on the respiratory system from the polluted environment, for allergic reactions involving the respiratory system (perspiration, cough, shortness of breath, dryness of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, pharynx, nasopharynx, nasal congestion, nasopharynx);
under skin diseases and insect bites (itching, redness, superficial tissue edema, peeling, growths, hair loss, periodic skin rashes of various types);
for gastrointestinal diseases (diarrhea, nausea, pain in the intestines, flatulence, seething, putrid breath);
for diseases of the musculoskeletal system (swelling of the joints, difficulties in the work of the joints);
under fatigue and diseases of the nervous system (general weakness, loss of appetite, dizziness, headaches, nervousness).

How are fungal infections diagnosed? To prescribe antifungal therapy, you need to know for sure that we are talking about a fungal infection. For these purposes, they take scrapings from the mucous membranes and skin, examine the sputum.

Additional measures to eliminate fungal infection (in addition to antimycotic drugs and immunostimulants) are:

changes in the nature of the diet - it is recommended to refrain from carbohydrate-containing foods that serve as nutrients for the fungus,
support of the natural microflora of the body, which competes with fungi for the habitat and naturally reduces the colonies of the fungus - it is recommended to take probiotics.