How to treat foot fungus at home?Folk treatment.As soon as the fungal infection passes from the carrier to a healthy person, it begins to develop intensively.People with poor metabolism, weak immunity and increased sweating are especially susceptible.In this regard, as soon as the infection enters the body, it is necessary to start fighting it urgently.Its smallest manifestation requires immediate treatment.The best way is traditional medicine.Medicines and folk remedies are better, because the effect will be achieved faster: the healing process will be accelerated several times.
First of all, it is necessary to diagnose the disease.For this, it is better to contact a specialist.If necessary, a diagnosis will be made by a mycologist.To prevent the fungus from becoming chronic and haunting you for many years, you should identify its type as soon as possible and start treatment.Just remember: even if it seems to you that everything is perfectly fine and the disease subsides, you do not need to stop the treatment you started.Infectious cells may be dormant and may even mutate into the chronic phase of the disease.
You can diagnose athlete's foot yourself.The main thing is to know about its first manifestations.After all, like any other disease, it has its first symptoms.
Symptoms of the disease
Pay attention to the skin of your feet.Check the surface of the skin near the nail especially carefully.Also check the nail itself.It often happens that the fungus affects not only the skin of the feet, but also the nails.
In the first stage there are no symptoms, in the second it becomes clear that the skin begins to peel off, acquires an unnatural color, and the nail plate fades, turns yellowish, and even delamination of the nail plate occurs.The skin on my feet has become rougher in places.The same picture is observed in nails.
A recipe - 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, skin pores and nail plates will be cleaned.
This procedure is quite simple to do at home.To do this, you need a clean bath, boiled hot and cold water and soda.The solution is prepared as follows.Take a small bowl, pour 1000 grams of soda into it and pour boiling water into it.After that, the resulting solution should be thoroughly shaken.This should be done until the added soda is completely dissolved in the water.After that, the soda solution should be set aside to prepare the soap shavings.Ordinary laundry soap is best suited for this.The consumption of soap flakes 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 many times as water is taken.Then, soap shavings are poured into a bath of soda solution and stirred until the soap is completely dissolved.
During the preparation of the bath, the water naturally cools.In this case, you need to take another container to pour exactly half of the finished composition and put it on fire.Since the water is already boiled, it is not necessary to bring it to a boil, it is simply heated thoroughly.You need to 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 consulting a doctor.The main thing is that you do not have an allergic reaction to iodine.
The recipe for making iodine solution is very simple.Iodine is always available at the pharmacy and is usually always in your home medicine cabinet.Thus, iodine can be considered something like an emergency aid at the first manifestation of fungus on the feet.Before starting treatment, pay attention to the content of iodine in your body.Only 5% should be dissolved.When treating the fungus on your own, it is better not to use others.Iodine should be used to treat the affected areas of the feet once a day for two weeks.If necessary, the procedure can be extended up to a month and repeated after a few weeks.
The second no less effective tool is propolis.It is known to be a bee product.So, those who are not allergic to them can try this method without fear.This fungus killer recipe requires a little preparation.The first step is to prepare alcohol tincture from propolis.To do this, you need to take 100 grams of propolis, place it in a glass container and pour 500 g of 40 proof vodka.Tincture should stand for at least 10 days.And only then 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 the affected areas of the skin three times a day.Due to the unique properties of propolis and its combination with alcohol, this type of fungus treatment procedure is considered the most effective in folk medicine.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.
Three recipes - birch resin and potassium permanganate
Tar successfully fights the appearance of the disease.Before using it, you need to do all the preparatory work, prepare a soapy foot bath at home:
- you need to soak your feet in a warm soapy solution for 30-40 minutes;
- after the soap bath, the nails should be cut, the heels should be thoroughly washed 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;legs should remain in this position for at least 1.5-2 hours;
- After two hours, the tar matter should be washed off with laundry soap and warm water.
The usual and well-known potassium permanganate will help you forget and treat foot fungus forever.Potassium permanganate, due to its unique properties, allows you to get the desired result very quickly and get rid of a disease like athlete's foot forever.Moreover, you can do the procedure yourself without leaving home.For this, you need a bath, potassium permanganate and ordinary table vinegar.The solution of potassium permanganate is prepared in the proportion of three liters of clean boiled and slightly cooled water, one liter of vinegar and one dessert spoon of dry potassium permanganate powder.Remember that potassium permanganate can cause skin burns.First, one leg is lowered into the resulting composition, then the second, that is, each of the legs should remain in the solution for at least 15 minutes.After that, each foot should be thoroughly wiped with a clean towel and it is advisable to wear socks that you will have to sleep on.
Such a procedure should be carried out strictly at night once a day for a week.
It is better to prevent the occurrence of the disease than to treat nail fungus at home.For this purpose, it is important to wash your feet every day and especially dry them between the toes.Try to wear breathable shoes.
In non-breathable shoes, the infection appears first and begins to multiply very quickly.After 7 days, there will be no traces of the fungal attack on the feet.