ATHLETE'S FOOT OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM ICHTHYOSIS

Abstract

The publication describes the examination results of the patients with the athlete's foot as well as with the mycosis of nails and smooth skin, which proceeded against the background of ichthyosis and without it, as well as of the patients suffering from ichthyosis without mycotic affection. After studying the state of water-lipidic mantle of skin and the trace elements content in nail plates of feet, the authors have ascertained the fact that the skin within the sites of hyperkeratosis loses self-sterilizing properties, whereas in nails under ichthyosis there is a trace element imbalance, which makes for their colonization with dermatophytes.