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I'm a chemist and I've had lots of worse chemicals on my skin.
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Originally Posted by Scooby Snacks
Oh no, OP! You should have started treatment sooner. I got a couple of dots of toenail fungus on two toes years ago. They were very small. I went to the primary care doctor immediately. He said, "Just put nail polish on them." I said, "No way! It's gross. I want it GONE." I live in a hot humid climate and always wore tennis shoes. He said, "I'll write you for this prescription antifungal nail polish but it's expensive." I said, "I don't care. If I don't treat it now it will get worse." At the time it was $16/bottle. I put it on my toenails three times a day. After four months it went away. I then wore flip flops a lot and made sure I dried my feet thoroughly after showering. I never got it again. I don't think that will help you OP because the nail polishes only help if you have very mild toenail fungus, though.
I still don't really care about it. I've got lots of worse things to worry about.
i just started vinegar twice a day. i'm going to do Vicks vaporub on it at night. i read one guy successfully treated it with alternating daily soaks vinegar one day, and hydrogen peroxide the next day. dont mix them together. use the proper % dilution.
here are a couple links
I have suffered from toenail fungus for several decades. I attribute it to my days as a caddie, when trudging through the morning dew 5-6 times per week always left me with wet shoes and socks. Perfect environment, eh?
While I have tried some things from time to time, a recent experience suggests to me that there is an approach that will work. At least it has for me.
I use an approximate 50/50 solution of vinegar and Listerine (the Walmart Equate product is much cheaper and works) as a foot bath. When I finish soaking (usually 15-20 minutes per day), I scrape the softened crud from under the front of my nails as much as I can. I also make sure that my cuticles are rubbed back as far as possible. I then apply Lotrimin (again, the Walmart brand is much cheaper and it works) both to the nails, focusing on the tips and rubbing it into the area near the cuticle, and in between my toes, sometimes to most of my foot surfaces.
I used to do this "most" days, but it was difficult to do while I was working. I am now doing it diligently, and I can report the following results:
My left big toe toenail, which used to be the typical yellowed and thickened type associated with this is now totally clear. The other big toe toenail still has some of the thickened, yellowish stuff near the tip, but it is growing in clear. The smaller nails don't seem to be responding as well, but even with some of them there appears to be the desirable pink color at the base of the nail, more on some than on others.
My own sense is that ensuring that the cuticle is removed to the extent possible is what allows the foot bath or ointment (or both) to reach that part of the toe where the nail growth occurs. I only started having meaningful success once I started doing that at least several times a week. Eliminating the infection at the point of nail generation allows a healthy nail to develop, not a persistently infected one. At least that is my theory, and I'm sticking with it.
I really don't care which part of my regimen is working, as long as it keeps going.
One last word is that you do need to be diligent and consistent. This remedy (or any other) doesn't remove the fungus from an infected nail. It just prevents new nail growth from being infected. Consequently, you will have to wait what is probably several months for the infected nail to grow out completely and for it to be replaced by a healthy nail. In my case, I can tell you that by doing it consistently for 4-6 weeks, then seeing the healthy nail begin to show, was enough to motivate me to do this every day, regardless of what else is going on (though I don't think missing an occasional day matters terribly, again because of the slow speed at which nails grow).
I had good results of getting rid of my big toe nail fungus by drinking and soaking toe with Pau d'Arco tea...it's a natural anti-fungal herb. You can find the tea online and at places like Walmart...
i just started vinegar twice a day. i'm going to do Vicks vaporub on it at night. i read one guy successfully treated it with alternating daily soaks vinegar one day, and hydrogen peroxide the next day. dont mix them together. use the proper % dilution.
here are a couple links
mine is gone now, and has stayed gone, it is now six months later.
the Vicks was fine until we had a bad heat spell, and it was just too damp so i stopped with the VICks.
i alternated daily between diluted vinegar, and plain old black tea bags.
that did the trick.
for vinegar i would soak a piece of gauze, and wrap toe in it, in a small plastic baggie for 15 or 20 minutes. for tea bag hot water on a tea bag, wrap over toe in small platic baggie.
Also washed with soap and water every day. and changed socks 2-3 times a day, and when at home walked around with no shoes or socks to let it air out.
it was on both big toe nails, both have now healed completely and grown back clean and stayed clean.hooray!
i don't like messing with chemicals so that's why i went with vinegar and tea bags. i remember when i was a nursing mom, and kept getting really bad breast infections over and over, and nothing worked and i did not want to stop nursing, and nothing the doctors and phramacists recommended worked at all, finally an "old school" nurse said to use black tea bags soaked in hot water, it was amazing. worked better than anything and i was able to keep nursing. i figure if black tea bags could cure a breast infection, they could cure a toe nail fungus. worked like a charm.
With no results after months of topical treatment, I had my big toenail removed. Really, really painful. Then I had to use the topical treatment as the toenail grew back in again. Messy. The toenail grew back in healthy but somewhat deformed.
Now, eight years later, I see the fungus has returned. Bummer. Bummer. Bummer. I'm not getting that toenail removed again.
I was looking for someone that had this done, how long did it take to grow the nail back. My GP adviced the same thing, but I am very hesitant.
Apple cider vinegar. Cover the toenail with vinegar, and bandage it up. Repeat every day till fungus is gone -- every day. Don't miss a day. It may take a few weeks. Be patient. Anyone who says this doesn't work has never tried it. It works.
Try it and report back. Get Braggs apple cider vinegar at the grocery store. There is a lot of info about this, google it.
The ACV worked for me. In addition, I used tea tree oil (applied at night after the ACV soak (soaked for 10-20 minutes every night). I also used this product (coating under /over all toe nail nails) before taking a bath or shower. The product is: Puremedy Fungus Relief Ointment 1 oz (sold on line or some stores - Google it)
You can catch/re-catch various foot-infections from your shoes.
Spray you shoes with Lysol, the active-ingredient, Benzalkonium-Chloride, will kill most things that can
cause foot-infections.
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Agree with ACV
