A fungal infection on the feet is fairly common disease. Getting quite easy, but the treatment is difficult and long. Therefore, the question arises: what medication to choose?
The best effect gives a full treatment which is a combination of drugs and treatment of folk remedies in the house.
How to understand that it is a fungus?
Determine the nail fungus of the feet and can not speaking to a specialist. The characteristics are the changes in the color of the nail, the smells. Itself the nail crumbles under vacuum appears.
The first symptoms of this that you have a fungal disease:
- The nail changes color and natural glow is warrior white or yellow-brown.
- The loss of the form and thickens, separates, or breaks.
- Appears skin keratinized nail of mass under the plate.
- Is inflamed hole.
- You receive an unpleasant odor.
The initial stage of the disease usually begins with the thumb on one side. If the time to find the problem, can be inexpensive and simple treatment. During the terminal phase it is advisable to speak to a specialist, such as the treatment at home, the same quality of medicines can not help it.
The means of treatment of nail fungus
To this day, there are several ways of treating fungal disease on the feet:
- The laser;
- Medications;
- The folk remedies.
The fastest and the best way of treating laser. In a few days, you've forgotten about such an issue, as the fungus. However, it is quite expensive option, and not in all cities there are clinics which provide such services.
Much more commonly used for the treatment of medicines and traditional recipes. Consider the most popular tools and effective, proven over the years, the recipes that our grandmothers practiced.
Folk remedies
The treatment of nail fungus of the feet means of the population should be the case if the stadium is not launched.
Here are the most effective, recipes and help to get rid of nail fungus
- Each day, you'll handle the finger hit 20% of the alcoholic solution of propolis.
- Prepare onion paste and apply it to the affected area.
- Grease a patient with a fingernail juice of celandine several times per day.
- 5% iodine solution, apply it on the nail ill.
But the most popular way used for the treatment of nail fungus at home, of course, is the hydrogen peroxide.
Use a peroxide for the treatment of the fungus shall read as follows:
- steam the feet in a solution of soda (to a quart of water with 1 teaspoon of baking soda);
- take a cotton and soak the sound of the peroxide;
- join-hit the nail and hold for 40-60 minutes.
To enhance the effect, wrap the finger, which had a cotton with peroxide in the polyethylene. Also in the course of the day to bury a few drops of peroxide in the cavity of the nail.
An alternative to the compresses can be of baths with peroxide. For this, it is necessary to dilute 2 tablespoons of 3% peroxide in a quart of warm water and keep in the arms or legs (dependent on the location where the fungus) 20-30 minutes. Repeat the procedure better in the morning and evening.
You can also do baths with iodine. To do this, add 3 litres of warm water 20 drops of iodine. Mark the feet or hands in the bowl and keep 20 minutes. After that, wipe the feet with a towel and apply the cream of mushroom (one of the following), to speed up the healing.
You can make homemade cream of mushroom. To do this, mix: raw 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and as much acetic acid at 70% and ointments against mosquitoes (sold in every pharmacy). Mix well and apply on the problem areas of the feet after the pre-cooking to the vapor of the iodine or a saline solution in petri dishes. Then put the feet in plastic bags and socks. In the morning, remove them and remove the remains of the ointment of the towel. Repeat the procedure daily until the full release of the fungus.
Pharmaceutical preparations
Heal in the course of execution, the form of nail fungus at home just with the help of a peroxide, tincture of calendula and saline baths will not work. You need to use drugs. And it is preferable to perform a complete treatment and treat hit the nail and of the revenues of the population, and ointments and creams of mushrooms.
The anti-fungal pill, because in some cases, the external treatment of nail fungus or the skin is not enough.
Conclusion:
When the first symptoms of nail fungus, you must take action. In the initial phase (there were white spots under the nails and the empty, help remedies and baths. If the nail is already crumbling, yellow and there is a bad smell, plug in the treatment of the medication: gels and ointments.