How to treat toenail fungus

Fungal infection on the legs is a fairly common disease. It is easy to get infected, but treatment is a complex and long process. Therefore, the question arises: which medicine to choose?

The best effect is given by complex treatment, which consists in combining medications and treating folk remedies at home.

How to understand that this is a fungus?

You can determine the fungus of the toenails without contacting a specialist. Characteristic signs are changes in the color of the nail, the appearance of an unpleasant odor. Also, the nail itself crumbles, voids appear under it.

Here's what a fungal disease looks like:

The first symptoms that you have a fungal disease:

• The nail changes its natural color and luster, becomes dull white or tan.
• Loses its shape and thickens, delaminates or breaks.
• A keratinized nail mass appears under the plate.
• The hole is inflamed.
• There is an unpleasant odor.

The initial stage of the disease begins, as a rule, with the thumb on one side. If you find the problem in time, then an inexpensive and simple treatment is possible. With the advanced stage, you should consult a specialist, since home treatment, even with quality drugs, may not help.

Ways to treat nail fungus

To date, there are several ways to treat fungal disease on the legs:

• By laser;
• Medicines
• Folk remedies.

The fastest and most effective treatment is with a laser. In just a couple of days, you will already forget about such a problem as a fungus. However, this is a rather costly option, and not all cities have clinics that provide such services.

More often, medications and alternative recipes are used for treatment. Consider the most popular tools and effective, proven over the years, recipes that our grandmothers have practiced.

Folk remedies

Treatment of toenail fungus with folk remedies should be carried out if the stage is not started.

Here are the most effective recipes to help get rid of nail fungus.

• Every day, treat the affected finger with a 20% propolis alcohol solution.
• Prepare the onion gruel and apply to the affected area.
• Lubricate a sick nail with celandine juice several times a day.
• 5% iodine solution drip on a sore nail.

But the most popular tool used to treat nail fungus at home, of course, is hydrogen peroxide.

Use regular peroxide to treat fungus as follows:

• steam the feet in a soda solution (1 teaspoon of soda per liter of water);
• take a cotton pad and soak it with peroxide;
• attach to the affected nail and hold for 40-60 minutes.

To enhance the effect, wrap the finger to which a cotton pad with peroxide polyethylene was applied. Also, drop a few drops of peroxide into the nail cavity during the day.

An alternative to compresses can be peroxide baths. To do this, dilute 2 tablespoons of 3% peroxide in a liter of warm water and keep your hands or feet in it (depending on where the fungus is) for 20-30 minutes. It is better to repeat the procedure in the morning and in the evening.

Can also do iodine baths. To do this, add 3 drops of iodine to 3 liters of heated water. Mark your legs or arms in a basin and hold for 20 minutes. After that, thoroughly wipe your feet with a towel and apply a cream from the fungus (any of the following) to speed healing.

You can still do homemade cream for fungus. To do this, mix: raw 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and the same amount of acetic acid 70% and mosquito ointment “Dimethylphthalate” (sold in each pharmacy). Mix everything thoroughly and apply to problem areas of the legs after preliminary steaming in an iodine or salt bath. Then put plastic bags and socks on your feet. In the morning, remove everything and remove the remnants of the ointment with a napkin. Repeat the procedure daily until the complete disposal of the fungus.

Pharmacy preparations

It is not possible to cure the neglected form of nail fungus at home only with peroxide, tincture of calendula or salt baths. It is necessary to use medications. And it is better to immediately carry out complex treatment and treat the affected nail with folk recipes and special ointments and creams for the fungus.

It is also worth paying attention to antifungal tablets, as in some cases external treatment of nail fungus or skin is not enough.

So, to inexpensive, but effective drugs for nail fungus on the legs and arms include:

Terbinafine-teva

This is an inexpensive fungus remedy for internal use. It should be combined with antifungal baths and compresses. But there are contraindications - liver disease, so if there are any, it is better to choose another drug.

Terbinafine

Terbinafine ointment completely copes with such a problem as nail fungus, the main thing is to lubricate it abundantly and treat it with peroxide every night.

Nails

Means Nogtivit helps restore the nail, relieves itching, if any, and quickly eliminates an unpleasant odor. According to the instructions, it is necessary to apply in the morning and evening.

Lamisil

Cream Lamisil 1% — antifungal drug with a wide spectrum of antifungal activity.

Exifin tablets

If the ointments do not help, it is worth connecting preparations for internal use to the treatment. Exifin tablets help with fungal diseases of the skin and nails.

Fucaseptol

This is a combined topical preparation. It has antimicrobial and antifungal effects.

Tinedol

Tinedol cream helps get rid of nail fungus, eliminates itching and peeling of the skin, eliminates excessive sweating of stupas and unpleasant odors. It must be applied abundantly not only on the affected nail, but also on the entire foot, as it helps to heal cracks on the heel.

Varanga

This budget remedy for fungus penetrates deep into the skin, eliminating the problem from the inside, while you do not have to drink pills that negatively affect the liver.

There are also antibiotics that must be used if the nail platinum is completely affected by a fungal infection: Lamisil, Onykhon, Diflucan, Nizoral.

Conclusion:

At the first symptoms of nail fungus, measures must be taken. At the initial stage (white spots appeared under the nails and voids), folk remedies and baths will help. If the nail is already crumbling, yellowed and there is an unpleasant smell, connect medications to the treatment: gels and ointments.