Method for the prevention and treatment of skin and nail infections
First Claim
1. A method for the treatment of nail infections of a user caused by microbes comprising the step of applying electromagnetic radiation in the range of 100 to 280 nm to an infected nail of a user for a time and at a proximity and intensity sufficient to render the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing by at least one of disruption of cellular processes of the microbes or damaging the genetic material of the microbes while insufficient to kill the microbes.
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Abstract
A method of prevention and treatment of microbial infections that occur on, or just below, the skin and nails consisting of the application of electromagnetic radiation to an infected area of skin or nails for a time and at a proximity and intensity sufficient to render the microbes substantially inactivated and incapable of reproducing.
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23 Claims
- 1. A method for the treatment of nail infections of a user caused by microbes comprising the step of applying electromagnetic radiation in the range of 100 to 280 nm to an infected nail of a user for a time and at a proximity and intensity sufficient to render the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing by at least one of disruption of cellular processes of the microbes or damaging the genetic material of the microbes while insufficient to kill the microbes.
- 8. A method for the prevention or treatment of microbial nail infections of a user caused by microbes comprising the step of applying electromagnetic radiation to a nail infected by at least unpigmented microbes that may become infected for a predetermined time and at a proximity and intensity sufficient to render the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing without destroying the microbes, wherein substantially all of the radiation affecting the microbes during the step of applying electromagnetic radiation is provided in the range of 100 nm to 315 nm directly to the microbes to excite and heat the unpigmented microbes without requiring the addition of an external agent such as a pigment, light absorbing material, topical agent or subtopical agent to heat the microbes.
- 13. A method for the treatment of a user'"'"'s and nail infections caused by microbes comprising the step of applying a dose of electromagnetic radiation in the range of 100 nm to 315 nm to an infected area of the user'"'"'s skin, whereby radiation in the range of 100 nm to 315 nm directly heats the DNA or RNA of the microbes, and wherein the dose of electromagnetic radiation renders the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing by altering one of the DNA and RNA without killing the microbes.
- 19. A method for the treatment of nail infections of a user caused by microbes comprising the step of applying a dose of electromagnetic radiation in the range of 100 nm to 280 nm to an infected nail of a user sufficient to render the microbes substantially inactivated by damaging the genetic material of the microbes or by disruption of cellular processes of the microbes without destroying the microbes.
- 21. A method for the treatment of nail infections of a user caused by microbes comprising the step of applying a dose of electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength less than 400 nm capable of directly heating the DNA or RNA of microbes infecting a nail of a user wherein the dose of electromagnetic radiation renders the microbes substantially incapable of reproducing wherein said dose of electromagnetic radiation is less than half of the radiation sufficient to kill the microbes.
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