How to cure toenail fungus at home?Folk remedies.As soon as a fungal infection passes from a carrier to a healthy person, it immediately begins to develop intensively.People with damaged metabolism, weak immunity and increased sweating are especially vulnerable.In this regard, as soon as the infection enters the body, it is urgently necessary to start fighting it.The slightest manifestation of it requires immediate treatment.The best way is traditional medicine.A set of actions, medicinal and popular, is even better, as the effect will be achieved faster: the healing process will be accelerated several times.
First of all, it is necessary to diagnose the disease.It is better to contact a specialist for this.If necessary, a diagnosis will be prescribed, which will be carried out by a mycologist.To prevent the fungus from becoming chronic and haunting you for many years, you need to determine its type as soon as possible and start treatment.Just remember: the treatment you have started does not need to be stopped, even if it seems to you that everything is fine and the disease has subsided.Infectious cells can remain dormant and even mutate, moving into the chronic phase of the disease.
You can diagnose athlete's foot yourself.The main thing is to know about its first manifestations.After all, like any other disease, it also has its first signs.
Signs of illness
Pay attention to the skin of your feet.Examine especially carefully the surface of the skin near the nail.Also examine the nail itself.It often happens that fungi affect not only the skin of the feet, but also the nails.
The initial stage does not show any signs, in the second it is clear that the skin began to peel off, acquired an unnatural color and the nail plate faded, turned yellow and even delamination of the nail plate appeared.The skin on my feet has become rougher in some places.The same picture is observed with the nails.
The first recipe - soap and soda procedures
These are nothing more than soap and soda baths that you can make yourself at home.Thanks to the solution of soap and soda, the pores of the skin and the nail plate will be cleaned.
Performing this procedure at home is quite simple.To do this, you will need a clean bathroom, hot and cold boiled water and soda.The solution is prepared as follows.Take a small container, pour 1000 grams of soda into it and pour boiling water into it.After that, the resulting solution must be thoroughly shaken.This should be done until the added soda is completely dissolved in the water.After that, the soda solution should be set aside in order to prepare soap flakes.Regular laundry soap is best for this.The consumption of soap bars is based on one bar of soap per five liters of water.
Usually a bath requires at least three to four liters of water.Therefore, the amount of soda increases as much as water is taken.The soap bars are then poured into a soda bath and stirred until the soap is completely melted.
During the preparation of the bath, the water cools down naturally.In this case, you need to take another container into which you pour exactly half of the finished composition and put it on fire.Due to the fact that the water was already boiled, it does not need to be boiled, but simply heated completely.You should lower your feet in the second half of the water and add the hot mixture while the soap and soda solution cools.
The second recipe is based on iodine and propolis
Treatment with iodine is best done after consulting a doctor.The main thing is that you do not have a predisposition to an allergic reaction to iodine.
The recipe for preparing an iodine solution is very simple.Iodine is a product that can always be bought at a pharmacy and is usually always in your medicine cabinet at home.So, iodine can be considered as an ambulance at the first appearance of foot fungus.Just before starting treatment, pay attention to your iodine composition.It should only be a 5% solution.It is better not to use others when treating the fungus yourself.Iodine should be used to treat the affected areas on the legs once a day for two weeks.If necessary, the procedure can be extended up to a month and repeated after a few weeks.
The second no less effective drug is propolis.This is known to be a bee product.So those who are not allergic to them can try this method without fear.This mushroom killer recipe requires a little preparation.The first step is to prepare an alcohol tincture from propolis.To do this, you need to take 100 grams of propolis, put it in a glass container and pour 500 g of 40-proof vodka.The tincture should stand for at least 10 days.And only after that it can be used as one of the most effective tools in the fight against fungi.The resulting alcohol solution should be used to treat the affected areas of the skin three times a day.Due to the unique properties of propolis and its combination with alcohol, this type of fungus treatment in folk medicine is recognized as the most effective.Thanks to this tincture, you can get rid of the disease in just 10 days.Infectious fungal cells die, the affected areas heal quickly and a healthy new one grows in place of the nail plate.
Recipe three - birch tar and potassium permanganate
Tar successfully fights the appearance of the disease.Just before using it, you need to do a whole preparation, make a foot bath with soap at home:
- you need to soak your feet in a warm soapy solution for 30-40 minutes;
- after a bath with soap, the nails should be cut, the heels should be thoroughly washed with pumice stone, special attention should be paid to the skin areas between the toes;
- after that, you should completely dry your feet with a clean prepared towel;
- After that, all affected areas are carefully lubricated with tar and wrapped with polyethylene, warm socks are worn;the legs should stay in this state for at least 1.5-2 hours;
- after two hours, the tar substance should be washed off with laundry soap and warm water.
The usual and well-known potassium permanganate will help you cure and forget forever what foot fungus is.Potassium permanganate, due to its unique properties, allows you to get the desired result very quickly and get rid of a disease such as athlete's foot forever.Moreover, you can do the procedure yourself without leaving home.All you need for this is a bath, potassium permanganate and ordinary table vinegar.A solution of potassium permanganate is prepared in the amount of three liters of clean boiled and slightly cooled water, one liter of vinegar and a dessert spoon of dry potassium permanganate powder.Remember that potassium permanganate can leave burns on the skin.First, one leg is lowered into the resulting composition, then the second, that is, so that each of the legs stays in the solution for at least 15 minutes.After that, each leg should be completely wiped with a clean towel and it is advisable to wear socks in which you will have to go to bed.
This type of procedure should be performed strictly at night, once a day for a week.
It is better to prevent the occurrence of the disease than to treat nail fungus at home.For this purpose, it is important to wash your feet every day and wipe them dry, especially between the toes.Try to wear breathable shoes.
Since in shoes that do not breathe, an infection first appears and begins to multiply very quickly.After 7 days, there will be no trace of the fungal attack on the foot.