Alison Meyer - Editor at Well-Being Review since 2016, published on {today}
Dr. Asuncion: "I guarantee that every person infected with nail fungus will be able to order antifungals at 50% discount and stop poisoning his or her blood."
Dr. Asuncion is a doctor at the Manila Regional Dermatology Clinic and we are reproducing some excerpts from her press conference: The nail fungus enters the blood and internal organs, which become septic and the body begins to perish from the inside. Philippines has the highest mortality rate in the world due to nail fungus. Every infected person dies within 10 to 14 years.
Dr. Asuncion is a specialist at the Regional Dermatology Clinic in Manila and gave us an exclusive interview.
Why is nail fungus so deadly and how can you avoid death when your nails turn yellow and you get fungus?
Why do you call nail fungus a dangerous disease?
Are you aware how many people died of mycosis in 2020? Last year, 55,000 people died in the National Capital Region itself. Of these 31,000 people died of nail fungus, which is more than half of the total number. Not only does the fungus of the nails affect the toe, it also gets absorbed into the bloodstream through your feet and spreads throughout the body. In a way it weakens the body from the inside and puts a lot of stress on all your organs. Its spores settle in the internal organs and start growing, causing damage to the body. This causes mycosis in the internal organs. This means that the infected person starts to 'rot' from the inside. In such a situation, the person may have heart failure at any time, the brain's veins may rupture at any time, the liver may develop cancer and the kidneys may stop functioning. Anyone who has nail fungus is at greater
That is why I consider nail fungus to be a very dangerous disease, which is one of the biggest causes of death across the country. We keep hearing about cancer and tumours, but you must note that cancer affects only three to four per cent of the population while nail fungus affects every second person between 40 and 45 years old.
So why can't doctors cure this disease? After all, your job is to save people's lives.
First of all, let me tell you that most of the people suffering from fungus of the foot nails do not visit the doctor, because they do not understand the risk of this disease. And even if he or she goes to the doctor, it is usually too late. Usually, they are prescribed some medicines, which are of little use and, after this, they never go to the doctor again and so the disease keeps on progressing. Fungal infections require frequent visits. Besides, there are very few people who understand the consequences of fungal infections and know what serious damage it can cause to internal organs. I can tell you hundreds of such cases, but I will speak only about those cases, which manifest the risk of fungal infection in the nails.