Treatment of nail fungus at home

Folk remedies for nail fungus have different compositions and methods of preparation. Let's look at the most effective ones.

Hydrogen peroxide

Nail fungus can be easily treated with the cheapest remedy - hydrogen peroxide. The procedure for removing the fungus is as follows - a cotton pad is moistened in a peroxide solution, then firmly attached to the nail plate with an adhesive plaster. The duration of the procedure should not exceed 15 minutes, because peroxide has an oxidizing property and can damage the skin. Do not wash your hands with water after removing the compress. The duration of the procedures is 1-3 months, depending on the severity of the disease.

vinegar

Baths based on vinegar tincture also have a quick and lasting effect. The basis for the procedure can be prepared in advance and stored in the refrigerator or made immediately before use. One liter of 9% vinegar is combined with dry celandine (200 g), then add 5 tbsp. spoons of salt and mix well. With the addition of this mixture, baths are prepared every day for no more than 10-15 minutes. After completing the procedure, you cannot wash off the solution or wipe your feet. The duration of the course is one month, in advanced cases three.

Iodine

The well-known antiseptic also perfectly eliminates the fungus on the hands. It is necessary to apply a small amount of 5% iodine to the damaged nail plate twice a day. The course of treatment is 1, 5-2 months every day.

Propolis

You can buy ready-made propolis tincture, or you can make your own by infusing propolis in alcohol. The product is used immediately after treatment with manganese solution - cotton pads are moistened with tincture and applied to the nail. It is necessary to fix the compress well, because you will have to wear it during the day. Then it is replaced with a new one - this should be repeated for about a week. If burning and discomfort occur, you should increase the course of use, but take a break every day.

Tar soap

If traditional medicines have no effect, try to eliminate nail fungus with the old method. It is enough to treat the nail with tar soap, then dip the treated fingers in simple salt. Wrap your hands with a warm towel and close them. The compress should be kept overnight. The course should be repeated within a month.

Tea mushroom

The well-known remedy Kombucha is a good remedy against fungal growth. Much has been written about its benefits, so it works well for mycoses. You need to take a small piece of the mushroom, chop it and rub the resulting ointment on your nails. The composition should be kept for 30-40 minutes and it is better to repeat the procedure 2-3 times a day for 2 weeks. Kombucha's excellent antimicrobial properties will help you get rid of the disease quickly.

Soda and celandine

This procedure is good in the initial stages of the disease, when the fungus has not yet spread much and has not penetrated deeply into the nail plate. First, you should steam your nails in a bath prepared at the rate of 2 tbsp. One spoonful of soda for 3 liters of water. After 30 minutes, you can treat your fingers with a towel and wipe them well with celandine oil. Daily procedures for a week will quickly eliminate unpleasant symptoms.

Garlic and manganese

Folk remedies, treatment with garlic and manganese, have a rapid effect at any stage of onychomycosis. First, you need to cut your nails as short as possible, then keep them in a manganese bath. In order not to burn the skin, you should not make the solution too strong. Then dry your hands on your own and then treat your nails with garlic juice

Special attention should be paid to the skin under the nails. This procedure should be done daily until the fungus is completely gone.

It is possible to replace garlic juice with onion juice, but the effect will be reduced.

Diagnosis of mycosis on the legs

Diagnosis of the disease is not difficult and can be done at home. Carefully check your nails and the space between your fingers - itching, redness, transparency of the nail plate, burning, discoloration of the nail - these are signs of the disease.

You can carry out the diagnosis in another way: dilute potassium permanganate to a light purple color and soak your nails in it - healthy nail plates will be colored, but sick ones will remain unchanged. After the problem is detected, the question of the treatment of the fungus arises, and here everyone decides for himself.

Start treating the disease at home using folk remedies or pharmaceutical drugs or go to the doctor. Our advice is to consult a specialist, only a doctor can prescribe the correct, comprehensive treatment that will lead to positive results.

If a fungus is detected, what to expect when going to a medical facility:

1. A dermatologist will carefully examine the fungus under a microscope.
2. It indicates the source of the infection.
3. It reveals the cause of the disease.
4. He will make an accurate diagnosis according to the tests conducted.
5. Determine the treatment.

It should be noted that the diagnosis is completely painless, skin flakes and particles from the diseased nail are taken for analysis.

How to treat athlete's foot with vinegar at home.

• How to use vinegar for toenail fungus.
  Soak well-washed feet in water with the addition of vinegar, preferably wine or apple. Do the concentration at your discretion - the stronger it is, the faster the treatment will go, but if there are ulcers and skin erosion, a strong solution can spoil the affected areas. Prepare the solution so that it can withstand. Sleep in clean socks soaked in vinegar - an acidic environment is harmful to the fungus.
• A mixture of vinegar and carrot juice.
  Mix 1 tbsp. spoon of carrot juice and vinegar essence, lubricate the affected areas of the skin with a tampon moistened with this composition. Carrot juice helps the skin to recover quickly and be healthy.
• Treatment of nail fungus at home with egg and vinegar ointment.
  Wash the chicken egg, dry it, put it in a glass and pour 100 ml of vinegar essence. Leave in a dark place for 5-7 days until the peel dissolves, discard the remaining film. Add 100 ml of softened butter, beat. You will get an emulsion in the form of mayonnaise. Every evening, steam your feet and apply the ointment to the damaged area of the skin in the form of a compress, cover it with a plastic wrap. Course - a faster recipe for vinegar ointment until fully cured. Mix 1 tbsp. l. acetic acid, 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil and 1 raw egg. Mix until a homogeneous mass is formed. Apply this ointment between your fingers and where there are signs of mycosis.
• A mixture of vinegar and glycerin.
  If most of the foot is affected, this method is good for treatment. Mix 100 g of acetic acid (70%), 40 g of baby powder, 50 g of glycerin, 700 g of boiled (preferably distilled) water. Mix everything and leave for three days, shake before use. Rub your washed feet twice a day with this mixture: pour 1 tablespoon into the palm of your hand. l. the mixture, rub and massage into the skin until absorbed, apply three tablespoons to each sole and between the toes. The course of treatment is 11 days. Then apply the same composition once a day for another 11 days. The disease disappears after the first week of treatment. But the 22-day course must be completed. Then rub this mixture on your feet once a week to prevent it. Recipe from "Vestnik ZOZH" newspaper 2007, No. 19, p. 32.

The best and most effective drugs against the disease

Only a doctor can determine exactly which remedy will be best.

What is effective for one patient may be completely useless for another patient.

The success of the treatment depends on the correct diagnosis and determination of the cause of the disease.

At the same time, there are a number of drugs that have proven their effectiveness and become the choice of many patients.

Prevention

To minimize the risk of infection with fungal spores, it is recommended to follow a number of simple preventive measures:

• use only personal shoes and socks;
• when buying new shoes, try them only in socks;
• daily dry and clean open shoes;
• use a separate towel and manicure accessories;
• dry your limbs thoroughly after each trip to the bath or shower;
• strengthen immunity;
• regularly treat your nails with iodine or hydrogen peroxide (especially before the pool);
• do not use fake nails;
• if an infected person lives in the house, regularly disinfect everything and shoes.

Following all the recommendations of your doctor will help you get rid of nail fungus completely within 6-12 months. The pathology in the hands is treated a little faster, because they are often open, that is, unlike the feet, they are not provided with a moist and warm environment.

Special procedures

When treating the fungus, a mandatory addition is the removal of the affected area or the entire nail. There are three ways:

• Use special tools to peel off the nail plate. Complete removal requires 4-5 procedures. The most effective means: Nogtemycin and Nogtevit. Mechanical disassembly should always be carried out by an experienced specialist who has nozzles of different diameters and different hardness at his disposal.
• Laser removal. It is carried out in stationary conditions. This is the effect of the laser beam on the infected nail plate. Under the influence of high temperature, the fungus dies completely; healthy tissue remains intact. Contraindications for laser treatment are epilepsy, pregnancy, oncology, skin pathologies and disorders of the endocrine system.
• Surgical removal. The most radical way to remove nails. The procedure is performed by a specialist using local anesthesia. After that, bandages should be done every day for a week.

Why is it dangerous?

In addition to unpleasant external manifestations, fungus harms the whole body. Its main danger is that an old fungus causes a complex course of other serious diseases (diabetes, allergies, bronchial asthma). Gradually, it completely affects the nail plate and spreads to the tissues in contact with the nail. According to experts, it is a kind of conductor for other infections.

Sometimes, against the background of reduced immunity, the pathogen can penetrate internal organs and cause their damage. The last place on this list is not the intoxication of the body. Some types of mushrooms release toxins that gradually poison the patient's body during life processes. Onychomycosis also affects the mental state of people. Against the background of physical discomfort, the patient develops a disgusting attitude towards himself, negative emotions and worries about the development of the disease.

Folk treatment

When choosing a reliable prescription for nail fungus, it is important to remember that complete recovery is possible only in the early stages of the disease. In advanced clinical situations, you still cannot do without taking official antimycotics, and folk remedies become an additional method of conservative treatment.

In advanced clinical situations, you still cannot do without official antimycotics, and folk remedies become an additional method of conservative treatment.

In case of chronic onychomycosis, such natural drugs are used for preventive purposes to significantly extend the remission period.

Garlic and onion

Folk remedies for foot fungus, consisting of onion and garlic, provide bactericidal, immunostimulating, anti-inflammatory, symptomatic and antimycotic properties.

It is possible to mix nutrients to increase the overall therapeutic effect, and patient reviews of such a drug are mostly positive.

It is necessary to combine onion and garlic in a ratio of 1: 1 and make a paste in a blender. Squeeze the juice lightly. Apply the composition to several layers of gauze, then apply it to the area of the pathology capable of infecting the fungus and fasten it with an adhesive plaster.

Do not remove the bandage until morning. The course of therapy is until the unpleasant symptoms of fungal nail infection completely disappear.

The use of copper sulfate

With the help of such a medicinal ingredient, you can quickly get rid of the pathogenic fungus. These can be compresses, baths or medicated ointments for external use.

In the latter case, you need to calcine the powder to a white-gray color, then add yellow sulfur and gas oil in equal proportions. Mix the composition and store in a glass container in the refrigerator.

Affected nail plates should be lubricated intensively until they return to a healthy color and structure.

How to treat with salt and soda

Salt and carbonated drinks, for example, during gargling not only kill pathogenic flora, but also allow to completely get rid of fungal infections when used externally.

You can use table or sea salt alternately with alkaline compounds to prepare a healing bath. An acidic environment is harmful to pathogenic flora, so microbes reduce their activity and die.

The risk of potential complications is minimal, the treatment method is quick and reliable, and is used until the alarming symptoms completely disappear.

Herbal treatment

Lilac, celandine, calendula, oregano are medicinal plants that can quickly eliminate nail fungus and eliminate the risk of its recurrence in the future.

For example, if you steam 2 tbsp. l. Dried celandine in 500 ml of boiling water, filter and take a therapeutic bath, after 3-5 procedures, positive dynamics of the disease is observed. The course of treatment is 2-3 weeks.

Tar soap

The benefits of birch resin for nail fungus are great, as the natural components in it destroy the parasite cells and help to remove them naturally.

It is recommended to prepare a powder from tar soap that dissolves in hot water and foams. This bath should be done before going to bed, but first remove the keratinized cells of the pathological area and reduce the length of the nails as much as possible.

Tea tree oil

While learning the fastest ways to treat nail fungus, you should not forget the benefits of essential oils. This home remedy has a local effect and does not cause side effects.

Tea tree oil is especially effective against bacterial, viral and fungal infections and successfully fights old mycosis on the toes. The oil composition should be rubbed into the foci of the pathology, but first perform a hardware manicure or pedicure.

Alcohol tincture based on golden mustache

In case of hyperkeratosis, diabetes mellitus, pregnancy and lactation, it is recommended to refrain from treating the fungal flora in this way, because the recipe contains alcohol-containing components.

For other categories of patients, the product is ideal because it is designed for quick and effective treatment. 15 - 20 combinations of golden mustache should be carefully ground and brewed in 500 ml of vodka for two weeks. The drug should be taken orally - 10 drops once a day. Each time the dose of the drug can be increased by 1 drop.