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Potassium permanganate...turns the water a light purple...soak your feet in that and your problem will cease to be.....it's cheap, comes in a powder form...works like a hot dammm., better than any pharmacautical the doc prescribes.
Potassium permanganate...turns the water a light purple...soak your feet in that and your problem will cease to be.....it's cheap, comes in a powder form...works like a hot dammm., better than any pharmacautical the doc prescribes.
Doesn't work....has never been shown to work....if it does "work" you didn't have toenail fungus (onychomycosis) to begin with...
As added bonus Potassium permanganate is caustic and will stain skin and nails turning them brown....essentially trading one cosmetic deformity for another ( although "trade" is generous since again...doesn't work)
Toe nail fungus over a year. OTC stuff didn't work. One cost 30.00 and was a waste of money. Finally went to the doctor. Says there is a prescription medication taken over an eight month period. Because there is a chance that this med can cause liver damage I'd have to have a blood test once per month for eight months. Says there is also a med that is used in cancer treatment with a side effect of curing nail fungus. It costs 500.00 bucks for a single prescription. I give up.
Toe nail fungus over a year. OTC stuff didn't work. One cost 30.00 and was a waste of money. Finally went to the doctor. Says there is a prescription medication taken over an eight month period. Because there is a chance that this med can cause liver damage I'd have to have a blood test once per month for eight months. Says there is also a med that is used in cancer treatment with a side effect of curing nail fungus. It costs 500.00 bucks for a single prescription. I give up.
Toe nail fungus is INCREDIBLY difficult to get rid of and all of these "alternative treatments" "OTC" treatments etc are completely useless.
Considering the prevalence of the condition, if ANYTHING short of oral antifungals which you are describing actually worked EVERYONE would use it...
If anyone tells you they peed on their feet or used some topical rub/ointment/cream/chemical and the "nail fungus" magically disappeared you know they are either lying or never had true nail fungus to begin with...
Once a nail plate has been infected with fungal elements there is no "curing" the nail, the changes are permanent and irreversible...
The way antifungals work and the reason they have to be taken for so long is the fungus has to be killed at the source, the old infected nail has to grow out, which takes months, and then with any luck if the fungus has been effectively eradicated the "new" nail will grow out fungus free.
No alternatives are NOT useless. I would never go to the pharma drugs as the side effects, good grief!! History doesn't lie about so many remedies. What I posted did the trick. Safe, free and from one's own body...can't get anymore natural.
Last edited by jaminhealth; 06-23-2018 at 07:44 PM..
No alternatives are NOT useless. I would never go to the pharma drugs as the side effects, good grief!! History doesn't lie about so many remedies. What I posted did the trick. Safe, free and from one's own body...can't get anymore natural.
Especially if you also "diagnose" your own toenail fungus, I'd bet any method that meets your fancy would "cure"it. A proper diagnosis of a fungal nail infection involves microscopic identification of the fungal elements (ie, hyphae, characteristic spores) from a preparation made from portions of the infected nail, or growth of pathogenic fungi from infected nail material on appropriate culture media.
Other nail conditions may resemble fungal infections, and treatment for these conditions would be different than for fungal infections, so it's not one size fits all for treatment of any funky looking toenail. Chances are that if you peed on your toes, and discovered, halleluia brother, that this restored your strange looking toenail to its natural pristine beauty, you didn't have a fungal infection there to begin with.
Especially if you also "diagnose" your own toenail fungus, I'd bet any method that meets your fancy would "cure"it. A proper diagnosis of a fungal nail infection involves microscopic identification of the fungal elements (ie, hyphae, characteristic spores) from a preparation made from portions of the infected nail, or growth of pathogenic fungi from infected nail material on appropriate culture media.
Other nail conditions may resemble fungal infections, and treatment for these conditions would be different than for fungal infections, so it's not one size fits all for treatment of any funky looking toenail. Chances are that if you peed on your toes, and discovered, halleluia brother, that this restored your strange looking toenail to its natural pristine beauty, you didn't have a fungal infection there to begin with.
Aw, you must feel better telling me about my 10 yr toenail issue. And no I don't run to a doctor for every bump, scratch, burp and toenail whatever as I know many here do. This is the Alt Med group.
The paint on treatments, such as Fungi nail, do work for a temporary “cure”. My husband has regular toe nails (not distorted), but they have a gray stain on the big toes. Fungi nail gave him pristine nails after a few weeks, but the stain came back eventually.
It’s worth a try if you just want your nails to look better for the summer, but it’s not a cure.
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