Most people will walk the equivalent of three times around the earth in their lifetime. That’s a huge amount of wear and tear on your foot’s many bones, joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles — and, more to the point, it increases the potential that you’ll develop a very painful and/or unsightly case of toenail infection.
Specifically, we’re talking onychomycosis, the medical term for fungal infection of nails. An estimated 35 million Americans have it, and you can understand why — despite having spent more than $350 million in 2010 alone trying to get rid of it — they don’t much like discussing it: Toenails turn embarrassingly yellow and crumbly from fungi that squeeze under them and then hide out.
And, oh, yes, for reasons not clearly understood, the fungi dig in even deeper as we age.
“Feet are the most neglected body part until there is a problem,” says Dr. Krista Archer, a Manhattan foot specialist and podiatric surgeon.
Specifically, we’re talking onychomycosis, the medical term for fungal infection of nails. An estimated 35 million Americans have it, and you can understand why — despite having spent more than $350 million in 2010 alone trying to get rid of it — they don’t much like discussing it: Toenails turn embarrassingly yellow and crumbly from fungi that squeeze under them and then hide out.
And, oh, yes, for reasons not clearly understood, the fungi dig in even deeper as we age.
“Feet are the most neglected body part until there is a problem,” says Dr. Krista Archer, a Manhattan foot specialist and podiatric surgeon.
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