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 regard, as soon as the infection enters the body, it is urgently necessary to begin to fight 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 speed up 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 begin treatment.Just remember: the treatment you have started does not need to be interrupted, even if it seems to you that everything is in perfect order and the illness has subsided.Infectious cells can lie dormant and even mutate, moving into the chronic stage of the disease.
You can diagnose foot fungus yourself.The main thing is to know about its first manifestations.After all, like any other disease, it also has its first signs.
Signs of the disease
Pay attention to the skin of your feet.Especially carefully examine the surface of the skin that is located near the nail.Also examine the nail itself.It often happens that the fungus affects not only the skin on 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 delamination of the nail plate appeared.The skin on my legs has become rougher in places.The same picture is observed with nails.
Recipe one - soap and soda procedures
These are nothing more than soap and soda baths that you can make yourself at home.Thanks to the soap and soda solution, the skin pores and nail plate will be cleansed.
Doing this procedure at home is quite simple.To do this, you will need a clean bath, boiled hot and cold water and soda.The solution is prepared as follows.Take a small container, pour 1000 grams of soda into it and pour boiling water into it.After this, the resulting solution must be shaken thoroughly.This must be done until the added soda is completely dissolved in the water.After this, the soda solution must be set aside in order to prepare soap shavings.Regular laundry soap is best suited for this.The consumption of soap shavings is based on one bar of soap per five liters of water.
Usually a bath requires at least three to four liters of water.Accordingly, the amount of soda increases as many times as water is taken.Next, soap shavings are poured into a bath of soda solution and stirred until the soap has completely melted.
During the preparation of the bath, the water naturally cools down.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 does not need to be brought to a boil, but simply heated thoroughly.You should lower your feet into the second half of the water and add the hot mixture as the soap-soda solution cools.
The second recipe is based on iodine and propolis
Treatment with iodine is best done after consultation with a doctor.The main thing is that you do not have a predisposition to an allergic reaction to iodine.
The recipe for preparing an iodine solution is very simple.Iodine is a product that can always be bought at a pharmacy, and usually it is always in your home medicine cabinet.So iodine can be considered something of an ambulance at the first manifestation of fungus on the legs.Just before you start treatment, pay attention to the composition of the iodine that you have.It should only be a 5% solution.It is better not to use others when treating fungus on your own.Iodine should be used to treat the affected areas on the legs once a day for two weeks.If necessary, the procedure can be extended to one month and repeated after a couple of weeks.
The second no less effective remedy is propolis.This is known to be a bee product.So those who are not allergic to them can try this method without fear.This fungal killer recipe requires a little preparation.The first step is to prepare an alcohol tincture from propolis.To do this, you need to take 100 grams of propolis, place it in a glass container and pour in 500 g of 40-proof vodka.The tincture must stand for at least 10 days.And only after that can it be used as one of the most effective means in the fight against fungus.The resulting alcohol solution should be used to treat the 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.The 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 appearance of the disease.Just before using it, you need to carry out a whole preparation, make a soapy foot bath at home:
- you need to immerse your feet in a warm soapy solution for 30-40 minutes;
- after a soap bath, nails must be cut, heels must be thoroughly washed with pumice stone, special attention must be paid to the areas of skin between the toes;
- after this, you need to thoroughly dry your feet with a prepared clean towel;
- after this, 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 1.5-2 hours;
- after two hours, the tar substance must 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 very quickly get the desired result and get rid of such an ailment as foot fungus forever.Moreover, you can do the procedure yourself without leaving your 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 clean boiled and slightly cooled water, one liter of vinegar and a dessert spoon of dry potassium permanganate powder.Remember that potassium permanganate can leave burns on the skin.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 thoroughly blotted with a clean towel and it is advisable to put on socks in which you will have to go to bed.
This type of procedure must be carried out strictly at night, once a day for one week.
It is best to prevent the disease from occurring than to treat nail fungus at home.For this purpose, it is important to wash your feet every day and wipe them dry, 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 left of the fungal attack on the legs.