Folk remedies work well as a supportive method of treatment, for example when they eliminate a specific symptom.
For example, a decoction of Burnett relieves diarrhea, but cannot cure dysentery.
Rinsing the nose with sea water helps to eliminate swelling of the mucous membrane and normalize breathing, but cannot relieve allergic rhinitis.
Likewise, a folk remedy for athlete's foot can help in the treatment of this unpleasant infection, but only if the "heavy artillery" is also used - special antimycotics or antimycotics.
Is it dangerous to treat fungus with folk remedies?
It seems that treating athlete's foot with folk remedies still helps, even if it is not effective enough.
That's true, but there are several pitfalls here:
- Those who want to quickly cure athlete's foot with folk remedies usually treat themselves and therefore do not go to the doctor.In some cases time may be lost;
- Lack of medical advice can result in psoriasis or eczema being mistaken for a “fungus” and treatment failure;
- The lack of test results also makes it impossible to understand what type of mycosis has appeared on the legs and which remedies are more effective.
- When you use folk remedies, often without effect, and change them, you do not notice how the time that could be devoted to serious treatment passes;
- After finally getting used to the “penny” cost of vinegar and potassium permanganate and being faced with the urgent need to purchase a special liquid or varnish for a fairly large sum, it turns out that one is simply not ready for such costs and begins to “play for time”.
All these signs are indirect, but they deceive and drag a person into a series of tests.And yet, for example, is it possible to use only folk remedies for toenail fungus without resorting to the help of medications?
If you can do it yourself
Such therapy can be understood by doctors only at the beginning of the development of the disease, for example, when a small spot appears on the very edge of the nail, which does not exceed 5-10% of the nail surface.Then folk remedies such as creolin, tar and vitriol will quickly eliminate athlete's foot.
If positive dynamics do not occur within 10 days after treatment, you need to urgently go to a dermatologist, take tests and start serious treatment.
The main problem is that when toenails are affected, the problem is often not noticed until the toenails have become quite large and time has been lost.
However, we list the main groups of folk remedies for fungus between the toes, on the heels and on the nails.
What people love
Pathogenic fungi love to experience “strong feelings.”Therefore, oxidizing agents, acids and aromatic phenols are needed.Therefore, the most commonly used means are:
- potassium permanganate, “potassium permanganate”;
- Table vinegar, strength 9-10%.It is easily obtained by diluting vinegar essence sevenfold;
- copper sulfate solution diluted at 1 teaspoon per liter;
- hydrogen peroxide solution, 3%;
- Creolin, which can be purchased at a veterinary pharmacy.Carefully!Creolin is intended for application to the nail only!Skin contact can cause serious burns.
How do you apply it?
How to cure athlete's foot with folk remedies?Use morning and evening with the help of warm baths.
First, a regular hot bath with soap and soda solution is used, then the feet and nails are treated and dead skin is removed.The water in the basin is then changed and one of the products of your choice is poured in.One condition is that when choosing potassium permanganate, all crystals should dissolve and the color should be moderately purple, but not brown.
The duration of the healing bath is 15 minutes, the duration of the treatment is until the fungus disappears.Interdigital mycoses disappear fastest, followed by damage to the feet.But treating toenail fungus with folk remedies can be ineffective, for example if the nail is not removed.The fungus hiding under the plate may be invulnerable to these remedies.
You should not experiment and change the composition of the baths every day.It is enough that you carefully monitor the color and size of the spots and change the medication only if there are no changes for 3-4 days.As already mentioned: if there is no effect after 10 days, you need to see a doctor.Don't forget the famous joke: "I was treated for jaundice, but it turned out to be Chinese."
There are facts when signs of varicose veins, thrombophlebitis and trophic foot ulcers in diabetes mellitus were confused with a fungus and time was simply wasted on curing the fungus.
About prevention
Both medicinal and folk remedies must be used, observing the rules of daily treatment of the inner surface of shoes with a special antifungal spray.Drying shoes in the sun, freezing them in the freezer, as well as using special antifungal ultraviolet electric shoe dryers are very important.
In addition, each sick person must have their own rubber slippers, which are cleaned daily, as well as their own towels.Socks must be changed daily and ironed with a steam iron.It goes without saying that a person treating their own fungi should not wear someone else's slippers during visits or go to a public bathhouse or swimming pool.
Only comprehensive compliance with these simple rules will not only cure nail and foot mycoses, but also protect your family members and others from infections.