Treatment of nail fungus with folk remedies at home. Symptoms of fungal nail infections. How the disease develops

Prevention of onychomycosis.

• Do not walk in public places (baths, swimming pools, water parks, beaches) barefoot.
• Do not use someone else's shoes, do not try on shoes without socks in the store. If you had to borrow your shoes for a while, then after returning, treat them with an antiseptic.
• Make sure that the master of manicure or pedicure treats the tools with an antiseptic in front of you
• At work and at home, do not use other people's manicure tools (nail files, scissors)
• The patient's shoes should be treated with a 1% formalin solution or other antiseptic agents so that re-infection does not occur.
• If there is a patient in the family, he must definitely walk around the house only in closed slippers so that the scales of infected skin do not fall on the floor.
• Do not wear tight shoes made of artificial materials, in which the feet sweat.
• Wear only cotton socks

Symptoms of nail fungus may include:

• Turbidity, thickening of the nail plate (hypertrophic form), it is deformed, crumbles.
• Thinning of the nail plate (atrophic form)
• The appearance on the nail plate of stripes and spots of white or yellow color
• Complete discoloration of the plate: the color may change from pink to white, gray, yellow, brown, in severe cases black or green.

Usually, the disease begins from the free edge of the nail plate, affecting its entire surface, reaching the nail fold, then the nail is completely destroyed or becomes thick, keratinized.

Causes of illness.

It happens that when a fungal infection gets on the skin or in the body of a healthy person, he does not get sick. Why is this happening? From the disease saves the immune system, which fights against foreign microorganisms. In order for the pathogen to take root and begin to multiply, causing the symptoms of nail fungus, one of the following must usually be present:

• Reduced immunity, immunodeficiency states;
• Vascular diseases in which the blood supply to the fingers deteriorates.
• Diabetes.
• Damage and injury to the nail.
• Poor quality tight shoes.
• Increased sweating of the legs.

Treatment of nail fungus folk remedies.

Folk remedies will help get rid of nail fungus, as evidenced by the reviews of readers of the newspaper "Herald Healthy Lifestyle".
Treating toenail fungus with tar soap is a simple home remedy.
Before going to bed, lather a sick thick toenail with tar soap, sprinkle with salt and bandage. For a week, you can cure the nail fungus with this method. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2009, No. 15, p. 32.

How to cure nail fungus at home with smoke.

This folk remedy is very simple, and works well if several toenails or fingernails are affected. It is necessary to roll up the cotton fabric with a tube as thick as the index finger and 8-10 cm long. Set it on fire and wait until 3-4 cm burns, then put it out. Fumigate fingertips with acrid smoke. After 7 procedures, the reader, disappointed in this remedy, stopped doing them. But after a while I found that the old thick toenails fall off, and new ones grow in their place. And now for 8 years the disease has not returned. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2009, No. 20, p. 32.

Treatment of nail fungus on the legs and hands with celandine at home.

Prepare a gruel from dry celandine powder and pharmaceutical iodinol. Make compresses out of it on the affected nail plates every day (apply the mixture with a match and fix with a film). In 5-6 days, the symptoms of the fungus disappear - the old thick toenails or hands disappear painlessly, new ones grow in their place. You can try replacing iodinol with tea tree oil or vinegar. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2008, No. 19, p. 31.

An example of the successful use of one iodinol.

A woman's big toe nail was completely affected by mycosis. After reading about the beneficial properties of iodinol, the woman decided to test it for herself. I moistened a cotton swab in iodinol, applied it to the damaged area and secured it with adhesive tape. It went like this for several days. Having removed the compress, I found that the nail became of normal thickness, and the spores of the infection under it dissolved. Then the woman moistened a cotton swab with vegetable oil and applied it to the same place, also fixed it with adhesive tape. Removed the bandage after 4 days. When I lifted the nail plate over the edge, it painlessly completely fell off. In its place, a new and healthy one began to grow. Review from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2002, No. 11, p. 19.

Golden mustache and tar are an effective treatment for nail fungus.

The woman had toenail fungus, causing a thick toenail to grow at a right angle upwards. The hospital said it had to be removed. Then the patient decided to treat the fungus at home. She kneaded a leaf of a golden mustache so that the juice came out, and wrapped her sore finger, steaming her leg before that. Top cellophane and bandage to secure. In the morning, the nail became completely soft, and before that she could not cut it with any tools. She managed to completely cut it off. The place where he was was smeared with tar and bandaged. After some time, a healthy nail plate grew. Review from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2008, No. 19, p. 32.

Apple cider vinegar helped to get rid of the fungus at home.

The toenails were affected to the very root - thick, crumbling, painful. They suggested surgery, but the reader decided to treat nail fungus at home: she moistened cotton swabs with apple cider vinegar and, without squeezing, put it on problem areas, sat down at the TV for 3-4 hours. And so every day. A year later, a clean pink stripe appeared at the root of the nail, which gradually increased. Symptoms of mycosis (fungus) completely disappeared. Review from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2007, No. 10, p. 31.

You can also use concentrated 70% ordinary vinegar - carefully lubricate with a cotton swab wound around a match twice a day, trying not to hurt the skin. Before the procedure, it is advisable to steam the legs (at least once a day) and cut off the softened areas of the thick nail. Soon a new nail plate will begin to grow. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2006, No. 10, p. 32.

How to cure nail fungus at home quickly with kombucha.

Kombucha is successfully used in folk remedies for the treatment of fungus. Lubricate the skin on the fingertips with a nourishing cream, and preferably salicylic ointment. Put a piece of peroxidized kombucha on the nail, wrap it with cellophane and a bandage. In the morning, the thick nail will soften, and it can be cut off. Treat the entire damaged surface with iodine. Kombucha has bactericidal properties, in addition, it acidifies the environment, which is detrimental to the causative agent of mycosis - the fungus passes quickly.
If the disease is chronic, you will have to do this procedure several times. Instead of kombucha, you can take Kalanchoe leaves - remove the bottom film from the sheet and wrap your fingers with a leaf. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2007, No. 21, p. thirty.

Green soap.

Lather the bandage thickly with green soap and wrap the problem finger with it overnight. Wash it off in the morning and make a new bandage. The course is until the symptoms are completely eliminated. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2005, No. 1, p. thirty.

How to treat a running nail fungus - folk remedies.

The advanced stage of the disease is characterized by complete damage to the nail plate. The main symptoms are crumbling of the nail, its delamination and deformation. Treatment in such cases is better to take place under the supervision of a doctor, using not only local preparations, but taking antimycotics inside. The most popular drugs are listed at the end of the article.

In addition, you can apply folk remedies.

1. 2 times a week, carry out warm soapy-soda baths for 20 minutes (for 7 liters of water - 3 tablespoons of soda + antibacterial soap), you can add sea salt with herbs (chamomile, string, sage). Then, with scissors, nippers, remove the affected parts of the thickened nails.
2. Lubricate all nail plates and affected skin with one of the antifungal solutions: Fukortsin, 9% vinegar, 5% tincture of iodine, alternating them every two weeks.
   Treatment of nail fungus takes 4-6 months.

To speed up the healing process, it is recommended to file the surface of diseased nail plates in dry form with a nail file and lubricate with antifungal ointment. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2003, No. 22, Art. 13.

Propolis.

Steam your feet in a solution of potassium permanganate and apply gruel from grated propolis and alcohol 1: 1 on your nails. Tie with a bandage and change the bandage every other day until the disease has passed. (2003 No. 4, p. 19)
Propolis tincture, which can be bought at a pharmacy, will also help. Moisten a cotton swab in tincture and apply to sore nails, fix with a plaster. Do the procedure daily. Soon, the affected nail will come off, and a healthy one will grow in its place.

Gunpowder treatment for nail fungus.

Grind smokeless powder in sour cream, spread on the affected areas and tie for 3 days. (recipe from HLS 2003 No. 10, p. 18)

Tincture of poplar buds.

Half a glass of kidneys pour 0.5 liters of vodka, insist 10 days. Make compresses at night on diseased nail plates, wipe the affected skin. This compress will soften thick nails overnight. In the morning, cut off the softened plate. In a week, a positive result will be noticeable. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2002, No. 14, p. 17.

Balynin ointment.

The woman trimmed her legs, accidentally touched the skin, a day later there was swelling and redness. I took the Balynins' ointment, put it on a piece of polyethylene and made a compress around my finger. I kept it until the swelling subsided. Gradually everything healed. After 4 weeks, she discovered that the diseased thick toenail had risen. She pulled him, and he easily lagged behind her finger - and under it a new, clean, healthy one had already begun to grow. Review from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2010, No. 5, p. 33.

Indian onion is an effective folk remedy for nail fungus.

The woman found symptoms: the nails turned yellow on her legs and became thicker. Somehow she began to treat her feet from aches, rubbing them with Indian onion juice (another name is birdman). Some of the juice got on the nails. Soon she noticed that the nail plate at the base became thinner. After each haircut, she began to smear them with Indian onion juice. A few months later, even beautiful nails grew. I gave this recipe to a neighbor with a neglected form of the fungus, he also helped him very well and quickly. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2010, No. 10, p. 32-33.

Mycosis celandine.

Celandine will help cure mycosis at home. It is necessary to lubricate the deformed nail plate with celandine juice using a cotton swab 2-3 times a day. Juice is simply squeezed from a fresh plant, having previously passed through a meat grinder. Part of the juice can be used immediately, and part can be fermented in a dark place for 2-3 weeks. The treatment is long, you have to wait until the new nail is fully grown. At this time, fingers will turn black from celandine, so in the summer you will have to walk in closed shoes. Recipe from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2011, No. 5, p. 8.

How to treat toenail and handnail fungus with vinegar.

Here are some folk remedies for nail fungus using vinegar that are quite affordable at home:

1. A mixture of glycerin and vinegar.
   Mix 2 tbsp. l. alcohol, 2 tbsp. l. vinegar essence and 1 tbsp. l. glycerin. Alcohol can be replaced with alcohol tincture of propolis, which will greatly increase efficiency. Every evening it is necessary to lubricate the nails with this composition, trying not to get on healthy skin. The course is 15-30 procedures until the old nail plate falls off and a healthy one begins to grow.
2. Ointment from eggs and vinegar.
   Wash the chicken egg, dry it, put it in a glass and pour 100 g of vinegar essence. Insist in a dark place for 5-7 days until the shell dissolves, discard the remaining film. Add 100 g of softened butter, beat. You will get an emulsion in the form of mayonnaise. Every evening, steam your legs and apply ointment to the affected area in the form of a compress, wrapping it with polyethylene on top. The nail should soften, cut off everything that comes out. Course - until complete recovery
3. Recipe for nail fungus with vinegar and treatment review.
   With this folk remedy, the woman managed to cure onychomycosis in three weeks, it helped everyone to whom she gave this recipe. Mix 70% acetic acid with glycerin 1:1. Lubricate 2-3 times a day, wiping with a moistened cotton swab, shake the mixture before use. After the procedure, sit for a few minutes, then put on clean socks. Review from the newspaper "Bulletin of healthy lifestyle" 2012, No. 2, p. 38.
4. Pure vinegar.
   You can use just concentrated 70% vinegar - gently lubricate the nail plates with a cotton swab twice a day, trying not to touch the skin.
   You can make compresses with 6% table or apple cider vinegar, fixing cotton wool soaked in vinegar with adhesive tape on the nail plates for 3-4 hours. Before the procedure, it is desirable to take a bath.

Treatment of nail fungus with folk remedies.

Consider the 7 most effective methods.
The most effective remedy for nail fungus is vinegar and vinegar-based home remedies, which are described just above. There are other wonderful traditional medicine recipes that are not inferior to drugs from a pharmacy. To get rid of onychomycosis with folk and pharmacy remedies, patience, regularity, perseverance and accuracy are equally needed. No need to abandon the process halfway. It often happens that patients with optimism take up treatment, but after five days the optimism fades away, and after ten you don’t want to do anything. You have to overcome yourself, endure at least 2-3 weeks, and then all these procedures with nails will become a habit. It will not work to cure nail fungus quickly, in 5-10 days, this is a long and tiring task, so you need to tune in to a long struggle for your health.
Before applying the therapeutic composition, the nails must be softened with the help of baths, then cut off and sawed off with a nail file everything that peels off, protrudes and falls off. It is better to make a bath with the addition of soap and soda (softens well) or with the addition of potassium permanganate and vinegar (disinfects well). If, according to the prescription, the medicinal preparation must be applied 2-3 times a day, then one bath per day will be enough.

1. Iodine is the simplest home remedy.
   It should be applied 2 times a day to the affected nails, 1 drop of pharmacy iodine. For prevention, treat neighboring healthy nails - 3 times a week. With the successful use of iodine, a slight burning sensation will appear after a week. If the pain is severe, then iodine is applied less frequently - 1 time per day. The course is at least 4 weeks.
2. Tea tree oil.
   Tea tree oil has a strong antifungal effect, this folk remedy can cure the fungus of the nails of the hands and feet at home. Apply the oil 3 times a day. Before applying the oil, it is advisable, at least once a day, to make a bath with the addition of vinegar and potassium permanganate.
3. Celandine is an effective home remedy for nail fungus.
   Fresh celandine is passed through a meat grinder and the juice is squeezed out. Combine this juice with 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:1. The resulting product lubricates the affected nails 3-4 times a day.
   Dry celandine can be ground in a coffee grinder into a powder mixed with iodinol or vinegar, or tea tree oil to make a slurry. With this gruel, make a compress on the damaged nail plate.
4. Garlic.
   Garlic is the most effective folk remedy against any fungal infection. You need to grate a few cloves of garlic, put the gruel on a piece of cotton pad or gauze folded in several layers and attach to the nail with adhesive tape. Put on a fingertip on top.
   You can lubricate the nail plates with a slice of garlic cloves, but this will be less effective.
   It is also recommended to eat more fresh garlic - 3-5 cloves per day.
5. Treatment of nail fungus on the hands of coffee at home.
   It is convenient to treat a fungus on the nails of the hands with such a folk remedy as coffee. Every evening, make hand baths in strong unstrained hot coffee. This method is also suitable for legs, but you will need much more coffee. Despite its simplicity, the tool is very effective and, judging by the reviews, has helped many
6. chlorine-containing preparations. Domestos from fungus.
   This method is not popular in the classical interpretation of the word, but, judging by the reviews of visitors to similar sites, it helped many people to get rid of even an old form of the disease. You should pour a little drug, such as Domestos, into a small jar, dip a cotton swab in it and gently apply the liquid to the nail plate once a day. Do not wipe with anything, wait for it to dry and absorb. After 30 minutes, wipe off the remnants of what has not been absorbed and evaporated with a cotton swab.
   There is another way to use Domestos: make foot baths by adding one tablespoon of gel to 5 liters of water. Keep fungal-infected extremities in this solution for about 30 minutes. If there are discomfort, reduce the concentration of the solution. Baths do every other day.
7. Treatment of nail fungus at home with hydrogen peroxide.
   Hydrogen peroxide effectively fights bacteria, viruses and all kinds of fungi, promotes rapid healing of tissues, accelerating metabolic processes in cells. Therefore, the use of hydrogen peroxide gives excellent results. First you need to steam your hands or feet in hot water for 30 minutes, adding soda to soften, potassium permanganate or blue vitriol to disinfect. Then moisten a cotton swab with a 3% peroxide solution and attach a plaster to the diseased nail for 20 to 60 minutes. Wrap your finger in plastic or put on a fingertip. Then cut off the softened areas as much as possible or cut them down.
   If the disease also affects the skin, the areas between the fingers, then it is better to take baths with peroxide once a day. For 1 liter of water, 50 ml of peroxide is taken. Soak your feet or hands in hot water for 20-30 minutes. After the bath, remove all affected areas with scissors or a file.

How to treat nail fungus - the best medications.

Modern drugs effectively destroy fungal infections. For the treatment of onychomycosis, they are also produced in the form of varnish. The varnish is convenient to apply, it has good penetrating power and tends to accumulate medicinal substances in the thickness of the nail plate, which allows them to work for recovery for a long time. In addition, varnishes create a film that does not allow air to pass through, which microorganisms need for reproduction.
If the disease has just begun, antifungal ointments can also be used. The advanced stage of the disease cannot be cured only with local preparations, it is necessary to connect antimycotics for oral administration. All of these drugs have significant side effects and contraindications. Therefore, it is better to use them under the supervision of a dermatologist.

LUCKY:

• Batrafen. (active ingredient Cyclopirox)
• Lotseril. (based on amorolfine)
• Oflomil (also based on amorolfine, but much cheaper)

Medicines in liquid form:

• Serum Mycosan
• Exoderil solution,
• Drops Mikoderil

The active substance in the last two solutions is Naftifin.
Thanks to the liquid form, these drugs penetrate deeply through the nail canals to the lesion and destroy the infection.

Ointments and creams.

Preparations Batrafen, Oflomil, Exoderil and Mikoderil are also produced in the form of a cream. It is convenient to use the cream if not only the nail plate is affected by mycosis, but also the skin around, the foot and interdigital folds.

Means for removing the nail.

Creams Nogtevit and Nogtimitsin will help to quickly remove the nail plate.
The nail should be applied as a compress for 4 days, fixing with adhesive tape. Now in pharmacies there is "Reinforced Cream Nail". Applied in the same way, but acts 8 times faster. And it only costs 30% more. Reinforced cream Nogtevit is applied as a compress before going to bed, and removed in the morning. Then, with the help of a nail file, the softened part of the nail plate is cleaned. The procedure is performed daily, until the nail bed is completely cleansed.

Antifungal tablets.

• Fluconazole (more expensive analogues - Diflucan, Mikosist, Flucostat)
• Ketoconzol (a more expensive drug with the same active ingredient - Nizoral)
• Terbinafine (Lamisil, Fungoterbin, Onikhon, Terbinafine, Terbizil, Exifin)
• Itraconazole is the active ingredient in the drugs Irunin, Orgunal, Itrazol, Rumikoz.

You can try to cope with the fungus on the toenails with folk remedies. However, such treatment can be effective only when the first symptoms appear (see pictures), i.e. in the initial stages of damage to the nail plate, and even then, not always.

Remember, if someone tells you that you can get rid of nail fungus quickly, it is not true! Removing the fungus is a long and tedious process.

So, what folk remedies can cure nail fungus:

Iodine

An alcoholic solution of iodine is the most popular remedy for treating toenail fungus at home. Let's explain why. This strong antiseptic has proven fungicidal properties.

In addition, iodine is able to force proteins to coagulate, to destroy them.

This property helps iodine to fight fungal diseases, because. it is reliably known that the fungus has a protein structure.

Available to the general public due to its cheapness, iodine is used not only to restore nails, but also for damaged areas of the feet, interdigital zones. But before you start treating nail fungus with a medicine like iodine, remember that:

• Iodine kills most species fungi, but not all.
• Iodine can provoke allergies, so a day before the start of the proposed course of treatment, put a drop of iodine on the bend of the elbow. A contraindication to treatment will be the occurrence of itching or redness. In this case, try another folk way to treat the fungus.
• Iodine procedures contribute to the coloring of the nail in yellow.
• Burns, dermatitis, and even thyroid problems are possible.
• The drug is suitable only for nails affected by a fungal infection in the initial stage, when less than 1/3 of the nail is affected by the fungus.

Now you know how to treat nail fungus with iodine, and it's time to choose the right recipe.

Option number 1. A 5% alcohol solution should be applied twice a day, one drop on the nail affected by the fungus. It is convenient to do this with a cotton swab. Iodine is also applied to healthy nails, but in a smaller dosage: one drop every two days.

Option number 2. Add iodine to a bowl of hot water and soak your feet in it for 10 minutes. Then the infected pieces of nails are cut off, and 3% hydrogen peroxide is applied to the skin. The procedure is completed by applying a bandage with antibacterial ointment.

Option number 3. Course - 6 weeks. For the first two weeks, nails are treated twice a day with fucorcin, the next two with iodine solution, and the last two with 9% vinegar.

Option number 4. Pour 1 tsp into a separate container (a medical vial is suitable). iodine, nitrofungin, vinegar essence, garlic juice. With the resulting mixture, you need to lubricate the damaged nail, after steaming it out and cutting off the loose part. The medicine is applied at night, be sure to shake before application.

Option number 5. Course - 1 month. Every evening you need to do a 30-minute salt bath (for 1 liter of hot water, 2 tablespoons of sea salt and 1 tablespoon of soda). Half an hour later, without taking your feet out of the water, the affected areas of the skin and nails are polished with a nail file or cut off with scissors. Then the feet should be washed with soap, put on gloves and treat with iodine the entire surface of the foot, nail ridges, areas between the fingers. On nails that are affected by a fungus, iodine is applied three times, waiting for each layer to dry.

Iodine treatment usually lasts about 2 months.

Whatever recipe you adopt, remember: you cannot treat healthy and fungus-affected nails with the same tools! Otherwise, the fungi will move to a healthy nail plate.

As always, we remind you that traditional medicine can only be an addition to traditional medicine. Be sure to consult your doctor!

Tea mushroom

From kombucha, immersed for 7-8 days in a sugar solution, a healing sweet and sour drink is obtained. It has many medicinal properties, among them the ability to kill pathogenic bacteria and retard their growth.

This is why traditional healers use kombucha to treat a fungal nail infection.

Kombucha can be used in two folk ways: rubbing and applying a compress.

Rubbing. Free a small piece of kombucha from films and grind to a state of gruel. It should be rubbed into the nail plates affected by the fungus, 2-3 times a day.

Compresses. Separate one layer from kombucha, soak it in water. This completes the preparations for applying the compress. In the evening, a piece of the mushroom should be applied to the nail plate, put cellophane on top of it and put on 2-3 socks so as not to stain the bed linen. The pain that occurs in the first few procedures is worth enduring for the sake of recovery.

In the morning, the compress is removed, the feet are washed in warm water, and then they begin to remove dead pieces of the nail. The damaged surface is lubricated with a strong solution of potassium permanganate or brilliant green. Treatment of nail fungus with kombucha continues for 3-7 days, and another 1-2 days for preventive purposes.

And yes, according to official medicine, the effectiveness of this remedy is questionable.

blue vitriol

Fans of folk healing methods use copper sulphate both for the treatment of infectious diseases and for the treatment of toenail fungus. Often, the treatment of nail fungus with copper sulfate is combined with medication.

There are two options for using copper sulfate:

1. A solution of copper sulphate. Prepare it like this: in 1 liter. boiled water dissolve 1 tsp. vitriol. This is a concentrated solution, so it must be diluted before use - 1 tablespoon of the solution in 1.5 liters of water.

• Water for the bath is heated (it should be warm)
• Add the required amount of solution.
• Soak your feet in the bath for 10-15 minutes.
• Treat the nail plates with a remedy prescribed by a doctor.

2. Ointment. Copper sulfate (1 tsp) is calcined in a pan until it changes color - it should turn white or gray. Then we mix the taken also 1 tsp. yellow sulfur powder, tar (or goose fat). All components are mixed and heated. The resulting ointment is applied to diseased nails.

Birch tar and tar soap

Birch tar is a product obtained by dry distillation of birch bark. It has been successfully used as an antiseptic and anti-inflammatory agent. Treatment of nail fungus with birch tar is also effective, because it perfectly softens keratinized skin. Folk healers suggest lubricating the skin with pure birch tar, as well as applying shaken mixtures and ointments prepared on the basis of tar.

Natural birch tar is applied to pre-treated feet: they are steamed in a soapy bath (15 minutes), after which the nails affected by the fungus are cut off and the dead skin is removed from the feet. The interdigital zones are wiped dry, and birch tar is applied to the affected areas with a cotton swab, slightly rubbing into the skin.

For 1.5 hours, you should not move and put on shoes. The ointment should be absorbed into the skin with air access. Then socks made of natural materials are put on the feet. After 2-3 days, the feet are washed in cold water with soap and the procedure is repeated again. During treatment, birch tar and insoles can be treated.

Treatment of nail fungus with tar is also possible through ointment. To prepare it, you should take any fat base (baby cream, for example, or interior fat), and add tar to it. At the beginning of treatment, its concentration should not exceed 5%. Subsequently, up to 15-20% tar can be used.

Some prefer to use sulfur tar ointment. It contains 3 parts of tar, 2 parts of sulfur powder and 10 parts of a fatty base. These components are heated and mixed until homogeneous. Such an ointment is applied to the nail, and a plaster is placed on top.

It is most convenient to use a chatterbox. It consists of glycerin and tar, taken in 50 ml, and 70 ml. alcohol. The ingredients are mixed in a dark bowl and smeared on the affected nails several times a day.

About 10% of birch tar is contained in tar soap. Yes, it smells unpleasant, but the skin is well disinfected and quickly restored. Here are just a few options for using tar soap.

Option 1. Foot baths. Grate tar soap, measure out 2 tbsp. Bring this amount to complete dissolution in 2 liters of hot water, and then lower the legs into the solution for 15-20 minutes.

Option 2. 1 tbsp grated soap is slightly diluted with water, add 2 tsp. baking soda and mix vigorously. The resulting mixture is rubbed into the affected nail. Do this once a day with a hard toothbrush.

Option 3. The nails are thoroughly lathered with tar soap, and the nails are sprinkled with edible salt over the foam. Fingers and feet are wrapped with a bandage for aesthetic reasons. In the morning, the bandage is removed and the feet are washed with warm water. It is believed that after a week the fungus should recede.

Sea and table salt

Table salt disinfects pathogenic microflora, and sea salt helps soften the nail and acts like an antiseptic.

This is not about treatment, but only about supportive therapy.

• Salt and soda must be dissolved in cold water. The ingredients are taken on a spoon. Session - 10 minutes, after which the legs are washed with warm water.
• Baths of salt and vinegar are made every day. The solution is made from 100 gr. salt (sea or table), 4 liters of water and 4 tbsp. vinegar.
• An effective way is to apply salt mixed with chopped mint to the affected nail plates.
• A cotton swab dipped in a solution of concentrated sea salt (a spoonful of salt in a glass of water) is applied to the nail for a couple of minutes. At the end of the procedure, the feet are washed with soda water. The course of treatment is 10 days, while burning and itching are considered normal.
• Baths with sea salt and essential oils are also made for 10 days. For them, you will need to fill the basin with hot water at the rate of 1 liter. water 1.5 tbsp. salt, stir until the salt crystals are completely dissolved and add at the rate of 1 liter. water or 1 tsp. essential oil, or 1 tsp. lemon, or 0.25 ml. iodine. The course is once a day for 10 days in a row, then a break of 2-3 days.
• Launched nail fungus is treated with garlic water. To prepare it, dissolve a spoonful of salt and a crushed clove of garlic in a glass of water. After complete cooling, the solution is filtered, and another 4 tablespoons are added. salt. The affected area is treated with garlic water twice a day.
• A packet of salt is poured into a bowl, the foot is dipped in water and rubbed with salt. Then wet salt is collected with dry salt, the remains are shaken off with a brush.

Vinegar: apple, wine and vinegar essence

Use vinegar at a concentration of 9%, no more

The fungus dies in an acidic environment. This is why vinegar is so popular with those looking to get rid of a fungal nail infection. Treatment of nail fungus with acetic acid can help even in especially advanced cases. But you need to prepare for a long course of treatment and for possible burns.

The easiest way to use vinegar is to moisten your nails with it, put on thick socks made of natural material and go to bed. You can mix iodine and 9% vinegar in equal proportions, and lubricate the nail plates and feet with the resulting solution.

Like any strong acid, vinegar kills the fungus. And just like any acid, it can cause burns. Before embarking on such a treatment, ask yourself why you can’t buy a pharmacy instead of vinegar?

foot bath

Components: basin with water, 250 ml. vinegar (table or apple). The principle of treatment and duration: water is heated, vinegar is poured in, legs are lowered and soar before going to bed for 10-15 minutes. The feet are wiped without rinsing, and antifungal agents prescribed by the doctor are applied. Do such baths every 2 days.

Lotions with vinegar

Ingredients: Vinegar 9%. The principle of treatment and duration: moisten a cotton swab in vinegar, wring it out and attach it to the nail affected by the fungus. The tampon should not protrude beyond the nail. Fix a cotton swab with adhesive plaster, put on a sock. The course of treatment is 7 days, a session once a day, then a break for 2-3 days.

Components: 2 tbsp. essences, 3 chicken proteins (alternative - 1 tbsp. glycerin), 2 tbsp. vodka. The principle of treatment and duration: gauze or a cotton swab is wetted with a solution, which is then applied to the affected nail plate for 15 minutes. The course of treatment is 6-12 months, the procedure is every day.

Ingredients: vegetable oil, apple cider vinegar in equal proportions. The principle of treatment and duration: a gauze swab is wetted with a solution, which is fixed with a plaster for convenience. Apply until a new nail grows.

Ointment

Components: 2 tbsp. spoons of 70% vinegar, 1 tbsp. dimethyl phtholate, 1 tbsp. glycerin, 1 tbsp. olive oil. Principle of treatment and duration: after thorough mixing of the components, the ointment is ready for use. It should be applied once a day to the nail plate with massage movements (you can use a cotton swab). Next, a plastic bag and socks are put on the feet. In the morning, the feet are washed with laundry soap in warm water.

Celandine

Celandine - plant poisonous, but if you use it in reasonable quantities, you can quickly deal with toenail fungus, even in advanced cases. Phytotherapeutists advise using both celandine juice and therapeutic baths, ointments, and tinctures to fight the fungus. Here are a few options for making them.

Celandine juice

Freshly picked celandine is passed through a meat grinder, and juice is squeezed out of the resulting pulp (do this through 3-4 layers of gauze). It should come out about 200 ml. juice. It is combined with 200 ml. 70% alcohol and insist 24 hours. The prepared juice is used to lubricate the affected nails, but the treatment is carried out only after a 10-minute steaming of the legs and their complete drying. Do 3-4 treatments per day. Treatment, as always, is carried out before the growth of a healthy nail.

Foot baths

An infusion of celandine is added to the foot bath. Prepare it like this: in a liter of boiling water, brew 15-20 minutes 100 gr. dried celandine. After straining, the infusion is ready for use. Infusion and water are poured into the bath in a ratio of 1: 1. You need to soar the feet for 15-25 minutes.

Ointment

The composition of the ointment, in addition to 5 drops of celandine juice, includes 4 tbsp. boiled cooled water, 2 drops of oregano juice and 2 drops of calendula tincture. The components are mixed and the nails affected by the fungus are treated with the resulting ointment, 3 treatments per day.

Celandine tincture

Celandine from nail fungus in the form of an alcohol tincture is used very carefully. To prepare the tincture, you will need vodka and celandine grass in a ratio of 2: 1. The remedy is infused for 12 days, and then used for treatment. It is worth starting with 5 drops, gradually increasing their number to 20.

Celandine oil

It can be purchased at a pharmacy, or you can prepare it yourself. If you go on a more difficult path, then follow the scheme. Dry the celandine, put it in a glass jar, fill it with any oil (for example, sunflower, almond, peach). It should rise above the grass by 2-3 cm (remember the amount). The mixture should stand warm for an hour, and then a whole week in a cold and dark place. After 7 days, the same amount of oil is added. Now it is ready to use.

Steam the legs, treat with peroxide, then treat the nails (remove the affected plates, cut off the edges) and apply topically celandine oil. The course is until full recovery.

Soda

Here are a few baking soda recipes:

Soap and soda baths

They cannot completely replace drug therapy. Their main advantage is the softening of horny layers, which prevent ointments and creams from penetrating under the nail. Components for 7-10 liters of water:

• 3 art. soda
• 3 tbsp soap, grated (household or tar)

The components are thoroughly mixed (until the soap and soda dissolve), and then the feet are steamed for 15-20 minutes. The procedure ends with cutting the nails, cleansing the affected areas, applying antifungal agents to the dried nails and feet. The course is a procedure in 3-4 days.

It is worth saying that soda is used for douching with an intimate fungus, because. copes well with fungi of the genus Candida on the mucosa. Its use for the treatment of nails remains a big question.

soda paste

The required amount of soda is diluted with water to a thick slurry. Mix thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is formed. Soda paste is applied with a layer of the same thickness on the nail. A few drops of lemon juice are dripped over the baking soda. The result will be a slight tingling and the formation of characteristic bubbles. After five minutes, the paste is removed by washing the feet with warm water and soap.

Treatment of nail fungus with soda must be combined with treatment with antifungal ointments.

Hydrogen peroxide as a folk method

This tool disinfects the affected nail and softens it. This treatment allows other drugs to freely penetrate deep into the nail plate. If you do not use peroxide when treating the foot or cutting off the nail, then even more infections can be introduced.

Of all the methods listed, peroxide treatment is perhaps the only adequate method that brings results.

We list the most popular folk ways to use hydrogen peroxide.

cotton pads

Help to soften the nail before treatment with antifungal drugs. After steaming, cotton wool soaked in hydrogen peroxide is applied to the nail affected by the fungus. The procedure is repeated twice a day for 3-4 weeks.

Baths with peroxide

Make an aqueous solution with 3% hydrogen peroxide and lower your feet into it for 2 minutes. At the end of the procedure, the nail plates are smeared with a gruel of water and peroxide.

Exposing the "healers"

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Tried peroxide and iodine - zero complete. The fungus grew and continued to grow. I decided to stop self-medicating and went to the doctor. I have been treated with mycosan and now I only apply it on my nails so as not to re-infect with it when I go out somewhere where I can pick it up.

My mother tried to treat the fungus with vinegar essence. I don’t know exactly what and how she did, but the burn was not weak. I mean, you need to follow the recipe exactly and follow all the recommendations.

Some of the recipes are simply stupid (for example, it is completely incomprehensible why you should heat copper sulfate or drip lemon juice on soda - both measures are pointless in terms of preserving the active substance), and all those based on the use of an iodine solution are also EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Competent endocrinologists have long explained that this easily leads to the development of autoimmune thyroiditis. But AIT, unlike fungi, is 100% for life.
“itching and a slight burning sensation. It speaks of a healing effect." - do not make me laugh! This speaks of a chemical burn!
People, do not joke with iodine! It is very serious!
In 1 ml of iodine tincture, iodine is about 500 times more than the daily norm of an adult!

Thanks for the comments on the video, disliked :) This professor seems to be a rare charlotte. Here is from his website:

– colon hydrotherapy (an expensive and rather strange procedure that official medicine does not recognize)

– correction of the human biofield structure (what is this all about?? This is written by a person who calls himself a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences!!!)

- ultraviolet blood irradiation, magnetotherapy, laxatives and applicators - a complete set for quackery.

• Ivan Pavlovich Neumyvakin - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, full member of the European and Russian Academies of Natural Sciences, International Academy of Informatization and Energy Information Sciences, Medical and Technical Sciences, Honored Inventor of Russia, laureate of the State Prize, has numerous awards. Here is such a "charlatan"!

  • Please do not confuse R.A.E.N. and, for example, R.A.N. or other state academies.

    “The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences is a complete fake, it is a voluntary organization, where those who were not chosen by the Russian Academy of Sciences or other real academies go,” the words of V. L. Ginzburg, Nobel laureate and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

    Served in the Soviet army "YUGV" skin fungus (between the toes) was
    every second soldier. I lasted a year, but then I caught it too.
    Because the disease showed signs of an epidemic, we were read an order for a group of troops.
    “everyone run in the morning dew” I didn’t have to run, but they said that it helps a lot. I just "burned out" my fungus. He doused several times (5 - 6) feet with aviation kerosene. I remembered about it two months later, there was nothing - a clean foot!

    From itching, "dead" water helps well - just wipe it with a swab moistened with water at least once a day and the itching disappears almost immediately. It also helps with nail fungus - treat it once or twice a week. Water is easy to get at home (see "living and dead" water).
    The second recipe: treat the nail with a rust neutralizer (sold in auto parts), it contains weak phosphoric acid, which kills the fungus. This way I got rid of the neglected (gone under the skin) fungus of the thumbs. Processing is carried out by moistening with a swab (I used a cotton swab) once or twice a month, removing the old nail.

I read your recommendations ... I was treated for a long time with all sorts of drugs and folk remedies, until this infection occupied all the toenails. Somewhere I read on the usual 6-9% vinegar. Every evening I took baths for 20 minutes, for 2-3 liters of warm water 1.5-2 cups of vinegar, and after them I trimmed the rot as best I could. In the morning I smeared all my nails with clean vinegar, a cotton swab, and periodically treated my shoes with it. Yes, the feet and shoes smelled of vinegar, but this is not fatal even for the people around. Gradually began to grow new, healthy nails. After 1.5-2 months, everything was restored. Now, only once every 3-4 days in the morning I smear nails with vinegar, and once every 2-3 weeks I do baths for prevention. By the way, the fungus on the skin from the plantar side of the feet has significantly diminished the same. There are no corns and warts (or whatever they are called). Do not spend crazy money on a pharmacy, nothing helps. Everything is loosened up there or there is no active principle at all. Good luck

I was diagnosed with diabetes. This summer, I noticed that I have a rash under my armpits. Has addressed to the doctor. The doctor diagnosed that it was candidiasis of the skin. Possibly due to a metabolic disorder. Has written out binafin. After taking the pills for two weeks, the skin became normal again.

I often go to the pool to keep fit. At some point, I noticed that the fingers on my left foot turned white. At first I thought it was from chlorinated water. Then the edge of the nail began to crumble. At the reception, the doctor said that I had onychomycosis, perhaps I caught a fungus in the shower. I prescribed exoderil first, but there was no improvement. At first he suggested lamisil, but warned that it was expensive. I asked for cheaper medicine. The doctor prescribed binafin tablets. By the way, cheaper by 2.5 times. I took binafin for almost 5 months. Long treatment, of course, but now the nails are fine and I go to the pool again.

All information is presented for educational purposes. Do not self-medicate, it is dangerous! An accurate diagnosis can only be made by a doctor.

Nail fungus- a fairly common disease that occurs in people of different ages who:

• Wearing too tight shoes;
• enjoy public baths and pools, showers and changing rooms, go barefoot;
• Have reduced immunity;
• Have diseases that predispose to the appearance of the fungus, such as diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, problems with the thyroid gland.

cure fungus can be both a variety of medicines and folk remedies. These treatments can be combined for greater effectiveness. If you decide to treat the fungus at home, then it is worth considering the fact that you can get rid of this problem with home-made preparations only at the initial stages of the disease, when the nail plate has not yet been deformed or severely damaged. In advanced cases, it is better not to take risks, and contact to a dermatologist for prescribing medications.

Method 1

1 Alcohol solution of iodine

However, iodine is not universal remedy for the treatment of fungus, since:

• May cause tissue burns, irritation, dermatitis, allergies;
• Effective against only certain types of fungal infections;
• Effective only at the initial stage of the disease.

✐ Important: When processing the nail plate, use sterile instruments. Never treat affected areas with the same tools as healthy ones, as this contributes to the spread of infection.

Recipe for the treatment of fungus with iodine

✔ For 1 month, every evening, you need to keep your feet in a salt bath for half an hour, which is prepared according to the following recipe.

We will need:

1 l hot water, 1 tablespoon soda And 2 tablespoons sea salt.

• Mix all ingredients until completely dissolved in water;
• Lower your legs for half an hour in the bath;
• Without taking your feet out of the water, try to clean the affected areas of the nail with a nail file or cut it off with scissors;
• After that, the feet are washed with soap, and gloves are put on the hands;
• Then an iodine solution is applied three times to the affected areas of the nail, after drying;
• With another cotton swab, iodine is applied to the adjacent parts of the nail plates, the skin of the fingers, between the fingers and on the foot.

✔ In a small glass jar, for example from baby food, a special medicinal solution, which includes: 1 teaspoon of iodine, 1 tsp. vinegar essence, 1 tsp nitrofungin and 1 tsp. garlic juice. Shake the ointment before each use. Apply it to damaged nails at night, after preliminary steaming and removal of damaged parts.

✔ For the next treatment option, you will need only the usual 5% alcohol solution of iodine. Iodine is applied 1 drop in the morning and evening to the affected areas of the nail plate. Iodine is also applied to healthy parts of the nail, but once every two days.

✔ Before going to bed, soak your feet in hot water with the addition of iodine. After the procedure, the affected parts of the nail are cut off, these places are processed 3% hydrogen peroxide, and then a bandage is applied with any antibacterial ointment. In the bandage, the nails should be until the morning.

✔ 6 weeks course treatment consists of the following stages: in the first two weeks, the affected areas of the nails are treated fucorcin, the next two weeks - iodine solution. The final two-week stage of treatment is nail treatment. vinegar 9%.

Method 2

2 blue vitriol

Many consider it incredibly effective in the fight against nail fungus. From it you can prepare a healing solution or a special ointment.

✔ Copper sulphate solution: 1 tsp should be dissolved in one liter of boiled water. copper sulfate. Before each use, dilute one tablespoon of the resulting solution in one and a half liters of water. Water must be heated and kept in it for 15 minutes. Then the nail plates are treated with antibacterial ointment.

✔ Preparation of ointment: 1 tsp. vitriol, heat in a pan until it changes color to white or gray. Then add 1 tsp. tar and 1 tsp. yellow sulfur powder. We mix everything, and then we treat the diseased areas.

Method 3

3 Tar soap

A popular remedy for treating fungus at home is tar soap. Many are repelled by its extremely unpleasant smell, but it perfectly disinfects the skin and restores damaged areas.

✔ For the first recipe, grate 1 tablespoon of tar soap. Add some water to it, and then pour in 2 teaspoons of baking soda. Mix everything thoroughly and rub into the affected nails 1 time per day before going to bed with a hard-bristled toothbrush.

✔ The second recipe involves procedures with steaming the legs in a bath. You will need to grate 2 tablespoons of soap on a grater, and then dissolve them in two liters of hot water. Baths have a duration of about 15 minutes.

✔ According to the third recipe, feet are lathered with tar soap until abundant foam is formed. Then, on top of the foam, the affected areas are sprinkled with salt and the legs are wrapped with a bandage. This procedure is done at night. Remove the bandages in the morning and wash your feet with warm water.

Method 4

4 Vinegar and vinegar essence

Vinegar 9% or less is used for all procedures. The cells of the fungus do not withstand the acidic environment, so they quickly die. All procedures with vinegar should be carried out with extreme caution, as it can cause tissue burns. Experts say that vinegar can help even in advanced cases.

✔ One of the simple methods of treating fungus with vinegar is rubbing vinegar on the nail plates before going to bed. Or you can mix vinegar with iodine in a 1: 1 ratio, and treat the affected areas and adjacent tissues with the resulting mixture.

✔ You can also make a foot bath before bedtime using vinegar every two days. Add 250 ml of vinegar to a basin of hot water, and soak your feet for no more than 15 minutes. Then the feet are simply wiped dry with a towel, an antibacterial ointment is rubbed into the affected nails, and then socks are put on.

✔ Vinegar lotions are also popular. One of the options for lotions is this:

You should cut a cotton pad to the size of the affected area, moisten it in vinegar, wring it out, attach it to the affected area, cover it with a band-aid and put on socks. The procedure is carried out every 2-3 days before bedtime. You need to repeat it 7 times. The recipe for another lotion is very similar, the only difference is that the cotton pad is soaked in apple cider vinegar mixed in equal proportions with vegetable oil. It is believed that this method contributes to the rapid growth of a new nail.

Method 5

5 Soda

It is believed that with the help of soda it is impossible to cure the fungus itself. But with the help of soda baths and paste, you can soften the hardened part of the damaged nail. Thanks to this, it is possible to ensure that the ointments and tinctures prescribed by the doctor penetrate under the nail plate and are more effective.

✔ Soap and soda foot baths are made according to the following recipe. In 7 liters of hot water, it is necessary to dissolve 3 tablespoons of soda and 3 tablespoons of grated laundry soap (can be tar). After steaming, the affected areas of the nails are cut off or cleaned. After drying, antibacterial ointments are rubbed into the skin. This procedure is carried out once a day before going to bed for 4 days.

✔ Soda paste recipe: soda is slightly diluted with water to a paste-like state. Then the gruel is evenly applied to the affected nails, on top it is necessary to drip several times with lemon juice. After 5 minutes, the paste is washed off with warm water and antibacterial drugs are applied.

Watch a fragment of Elena Malysheva's program "It's healthy to live" about toenail fungus:

Myths about nail fungus. Treatment. Prevention