Ahoeng disease

　　The etiology of Ahoeng disease is unknown and may be related to congenital abnormalities in genetic quality, chronic injury, and long-term barefoot walking in tropical areas, or due to congenital excessive hyperkeratosis of the skin, secondary inflammation and fibrosis due to fissures.

　　Ahoeng disease is a genetic disease, with excessive hyperkeratosis and shedding of the skin, and the integrity of the skin is destroyed, so it can cause skin bacterial infection or fungal infection due to scratching by the patient. It usually occurs in people with low body resistance, or those who have used immunosuppressants for a long time, or have onychomycosis and other fungal infections. If there is concurrent bacterial infection, there may be symptoms such as fever, skin swelling, ulceration, and purulent secretion. Severe cases can lead to sepsis, so it should attract the attention of clinical doctors.

　　The prevention of Ahoeng disease focuses on preventing traumatic infections. In daily life, the following measures can be taken for prevention:

　　1. Develop good living habits, quit smoking and limit alcohol intake. Smoking, as predicted by the World Health Organization, if people stop smoking, the world's cancer will decrease by 1/3 after 5 years; secondly, do not drink excessively. Cigarettes and alcohol are highly acidic substances, and people who smoke and drink for a long time are prone to acidosis.

　　2. Do not eat too much salty and spicy food, overheated, cold, expired, and deteriorated food; for the elderly, the weak, or those with a genetic predisposition to certain diseases, eat some cancer-preventive foods and alkaline foods with high alkaline content appropriately, and maintain a good mental state.

　　3. Maintain a good mental state to cope with stress, combine work and rest, and do not overwork. It can be seen that stress is an important trigger for cancer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that stress leads to overwork and physical weakness, thereby causing a decrease in immune function, endocrine disorders, internal metabolism disorders, and the deposition of acidic substances in the body; stress can also lead to mental tension, causing Qi stagnation and blood stasis, internal fire, and other problems.

　　4. Strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, exercise more in the sun, and sweat can help excrete acidic substances in the body through sweat, avoiding the formation of an acidic body.

　　5. Live a regular life, and irregular lifestyle habits such as staying up all night to sing karaoke, play Mahjong, not returning home at night, and irregular lifestyles will worsen the acidification of the body, making it easy to develop cancer. Good habits should be cultivated to maintain an alkaline体质, keeping various cancers away from oneself.

　　The clinical skin examination of Ahong disease can be seen as follows: the skin damage begins at the proximal flexor or medial side of the first toe joint, with fissures or transverse grooves appearing, which may become inflamed or chronic ulcers, gradually expanding into annular narrowing, the distal toe becoming spherical, connected to the proximal only by a thin line. After 5 to 10 years of development, it will eventually naturally break off and fall off.

　　Ahong disease should pay attention to dietary health care:
　　Eat more foods rich in calcium, iron, vitamin C, and carotene. These foods are important nutritional sources for maintaining the growth of human mucous membranes and epithelial tissues, and are very beneficial for resisting excessive keratinization of the skin.

　　In the early stage of Ahong disease, when a contraction ring is formed, surgery can be performed in time to relieve it or locally try corticosteroids such as betamethasone for intramuscular injection. For late-stage or severe cases with no hope of recovery, corrective surgery or amputation can be performed. For patients with skin bacterial infections, antibiotic anti-infection treatment should be given, and penicillin or cephalosporin antibiotics can be chosen; for those allergic to penicillin, erythromycin can be chosen.