Protect Your Toenails

The facts about fungus.

- Lisa Bendall

IT AIN’T PRETTY—which is a common reason for treating toenail fungus. “People don’t like the way it looks,” says Brad Sonnema, a podiatric physician in Edmonton. Onychomycosis—as the condition is formally known—can be picked up pretty much anywhere you walk barefoot and grows inside or under the nail, causing it to thicken, crumble or turn yellow.