How to cure foot fungus at home?Folk remedies.As soon as a fungal infection passes from a carrier to a healthy person, it immediately begins to develop intensively.People with impaired metabolism, weak immunity and increased sweating are especially vulnerable.In this sense, as soon as the infection enters the body, it is urgent to start fighting it.Its slightest manifestation requires immediate treatment.The best way is traditional medicine.A set of actions, medicinal and folk, is even better, since the effect will be achieved faster - the healing process will be accelerated several times.
First of all, it is necessary to diagnose the disease.It is better to contact a specialist for this.If necessary, a diagnosis will be prescribed, which will be carried out by a mycologist.To prevent the fungus from becoming chronic and haunting you for many years, you need to determine its type as quickly as possible and start treatment.Just remember: it is not necessary to interrupt the treatment you have started, even if it seems to you that everything is in perfect order and the disease has subsided.Infectious cells can remain inactive and even mutate, moving into the chronic stage of the disease.
You can diagnose foot fungus yourself.The main thing is to know its first manifestations.After all, like any other disease, it also has its first symptoms.
Signs of the disease
Pay attention to the skin of your feet.Pay special attention to the surface of the skin near the nail.Also examine the nail itself.It often happens that the fungus affects not only the skin of the feet, but also the nails.
The initial stage does not show any signs, in the second it is clear that the skin began to peel off, acquired an unnatural color, and the nail plate faded, became yellowish, and even a delamination of the nail plate appeared.The skin on my legs has become rougher in places.The same picture is observed with the nails.
Recipe one: procedures with soap and soda
These are nothing more than soap and soda baths that you can prepare yourself at home.Thanks to the soap and baking soda solution, the pores of the skin and the surface of the nail will be cleaned.
Performing this procedure at home is quite simple.To do this, you will need a clean bathroom, hot and cold boiled water and soda.The solution is prepared as follows.Take a small container, pour 1000 grams of soda into it and pour boiling water.After that, the resulting solution must be shaken well.This should be done until the added soda completely dissolves in the water.After this, the soda solution should be reserved for preparing soap shavings.Ordinary laundry soap is best suited for this.The consumption of soap shavings is based on one bar of soap for every five liters of water.
Typically, a bath requires at least three to four liters of water.Consequently, the amount of soda increases as many times as water is ingested.Next, soap shavings are poured into a bath with soda solution and stirred until the soap is completely melted.
During bath preparation, the water cools naturally.In this case, you need to take another container into which to pour exactly half of the finished composition and put it on the fire.Due to the fact that the water was already boiled, it is not necessary to bring it to a boil, but simply heat it completely.You should submerge your feet in the second half of the water and add the hot mixture as the soap and baking soda solution cools.
The second recipe is based on iodine and propolis.
Iodine treatment is best done after consulting with a doctor.The main thing is that you do not have a predisposition to an allergic reaction to iodine.
The recipe to prepare an iodine solution is very simple.Iodine is a product that can always be purchased at the pharmacy and is usually always in the medicine cabinet at home.Therefore, iodine can be considered a kind of ambulance at the first manifestation of leg fungus.Just before starting treatment, pay attention to the composition of the iodine you have.It should only be a 5% solution.It is better not to use others to treat fungus yourself.Iodine should be used to treat the affected areas of the legs once a day for two weeks.If necessary, the procedure can be extended to a month and repeated after a couple of weeks.
The second no less effective remedy is propolis.It is known to be a product of bees.So those who are not allergic to them can try this method without fear.This mushroom killing recipe requires a little preparation.The first step is to prepare an alcohol tincture from propolis.To do this, take 100 grams of propolis, place it in a glass container and pour 500 g of 40 proof vodka.The tincture should sit for at least 10 days.And only after that it can be used as one of the most effective means in the fight against fungus.The resulting alcohol solution should be used to treat affected areas of the skin three times a day.Due to the unique property of propolis and its combination with alcohol, this type of fungal treatment procedure in folk medicine is recognized as the most effective.Thanks to this tincture, you can get rid of the disease in just 10 days.Infectious fungal cells die, the affected areas soon heal, and a new, healthy one grows in place of the nail plate.
Recipe three: birch tar and potassium permanganate
Tar successfully combats the onset of the disease.Just before using it, it is necessary to carry out complete preparation, make a foot bath with soap at home:
- you need to soak your feet in a warm soapy solution for 30 to 40 minutes;
- after a soap bath, the nails should be cut, the heels should be washed thoroughly with a pumice stone, special attention should be paid to the skin areas between the toes;
- after that, you should dry your feet well with a prepared clean towel;
- after that, all affected areas are carefully lubricated with tar and wrapped in polyethylene, warm socks are put on;the legs should remain in this state for at least 1.5 to 2 hours;
- After two hours, the tar substance should be washed off with laundry soap and warm water.
The usual and well-known potassium permanganate will help you cure and forget forever what foot fungus is.Potassium permanganate, due to its unique properties, allows you to quickly get the desired result and get rid of such an ailment as foot fungus forever.In addition, you can carry out the procedure yourself without leaving home.All you need for this is a bath, potassium permanganate and ordinary table vinegar.A solution of potassium permanganate is prepared at the rate of three liters of boiled and slightly cooled clean water, one liter of vinegar and a dessert spoon of dry powdered potassium permanganate.Remember that potassium permanganate can cause skin burns.First one leg is lowered into the resulting composition, then the second, that is, so that each of the legs remains in the solution for at least 15 minutes.After that, each foot should be dried well with a clean towel and it is advisable to put on socks that you will have to go to bed in.
This type of procedure should be done strictly at night, once a day for a week.
It is better to prevent the onset of the disease than to treat nail fungus at home.To do this, it is important to wash your feet every day and dry them, especially between the toes.Try to wear breathable shoes.
Since in non-breathable shoes an infection appears first and begins to multiply very quickly.After 7 days, there will be no trace of the fungal attack on the legs.