Athlete's foot is a disease, the symptoms that are observed in approximately 20% of people. Athlete's foot is easy to grab, to touch with bare feet on wet floors in the pool or the sports locker room, but the solution is not so simple. To start the treatment you need quickly, with the appearance of the first symptoms. To do this, use any folk remedy for foot fungus in combination with prescribed drugs.
How to get rid of foot fungus folk remedies
There are many ways to get foot fungus folk remedies. The most famous of them – birch, tar, garlic and onions, soda, and salt, celandine, vinegar. You are able to relieve the condition onychomycosis, and with regular use help to heal.
Birch tar
Known folk remedy for foot fungus. Tar contains up to 15% of tannins, phenols, alkaloids, essential oils, a small amount of carcinogens. Unknown when I began the use of tar for medical purposes, but traditional medicine has long been known how to treat fungus with this tough and strong-smelling product of the distillation of birch.
When applying to the legs, tar acts on several problems at the same time. He and keratinized soften, and relieve the inflammation and the infection will create the most adverse conditions.
The simple folk of the drug based on which is a coal-tar soap. It is suitable for different treatments:
- Lotions the soap slurry. Grind soap powder, dilute with water to semi-liquid consistency, apply to the affected feet, fix it with a bandage and leave for 3 hours.
- Bathrooms. RUB the soap, measure out 3 tablespoons d'. Fill a bowl with warm water and dissolved soap powder. Keep your feet in a solution of a quarter of an hour.
- Of friction. Grind to a powder some soap of tar, measure out 1 tsp, Add 2 tablespoons of water and 1 teaspoon of sodium. Apply the mixture to the affected nail fungus on my feet before going to bed, wash in the morning. Repeat every day.
If there is no soap, but there is not pure tar, it is possible to make an ointment. According to a traditional recipe as a base you can take badger fat or any neutral cream. Equal Parts of base and tar are mixed and used for the lubrication of the affected areas on the feet. After two hours, wash the skin of excess ointment.
You can enlarge folk recipe with sulphur powder. Take 2 parts of tar, 1 part of sulfur, 1 part of cream. The composition must be heated and thoroughly mixed. The finished ointment applied to the nail and cover the patch.
Antifungals vegetables: garlic and onions
The onion and garlic – the most effective products in the athlete. They clean the skin, strengthen the body's immune defenses and are excellent in tandem. In folk medicine it is used in a wide range of diseases.
Garlic is rich in phytoncides, allicin (the substance with a strong fungicidal action), essential oils. In Luke many of the volatile and essential oils, flavonoids.
When the fungi on the feet, apply topically vegetables separately or mixed:
- The juice of garlic. Break the beans, squeeze the juice and apply on the feet twice a day any applicator, but not with the fingers.
- The juice of the onion and the garlic. Crush 4 cloves garlic, pour 1 tablespoon of juice of onion. Apply and keep the composition on the foot with a compress or a bandage of half an hour.
- Onion compresses. Finely chop the onion and mix with petroleum jelly in equal proportions. Apply on your feet daily course of 10-15 days.
- All application. There's time to squeeze the juice of garlic – just cut a clove in half, sprinkle with salt and RUB with half the affected skin on the feet.
- All lotion. Cook the garlic pulp and squeeze the juice. Mix 1 part juice with 1 part water and 1 part rubbing alcohol. Apply the resulting lotion to the affected area on the feet.
The essential oils
The recipes recommended in folk medicine for foot fungi, often refers to different essential oils – clove, cinnamon, oil of Cassia, thyme, geranium, marjoram, and lemongrass.
But the most popular essential oil of tea tree. It is a powerful antiseptic concentration. Use it with care so as not to cause burns, redness, irritation of the skin.
There are several versions of the application of folk remedies – you can RUB the pure oil, but you can dilute it in the shower.
To prepare a healing bath, using the following proportions: 1 gallon water, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 15 drops of oil, 1 tablespoon of honey. If you need more of the mixture – increase the number of all the components multiple. Bath spent 20 minutes every day without skipping any of the course in 1-3 months.
Herbs for baths
Bathrooms with collections of medicinal herbs – mild folk remedy for foot fungus. Just before applying make sure that the plants that form part d', which do not have allergic reactions.
Simple folk recipe includes the leaves of burdock, yarrow, plantain and Artemisia. Combine the herbs in equal proportions, for example, 2 tablespoons. l'. raw Pour boiling water, wait until it has cooled a bit, fill with the broth in the basin and soak your feet. After a few days of daily steaming condition improves.
Good effect gives decoction of oak bark. Cook at the rate of 4 tablespoons of dry raw material per 1 liter of water. Add 2 drops of essential oil of peppermint and 10 drops of tea tree oil, stir and leave to cool. After an hour, combine the broth, 3 l of hot water and 2 tablespoons of baking soda. In these mixtures it is possible to keep the feet for 30 minutes. Select the time in the daily schedule. In general the course has a duration of 2 weeks.
Soda and salt
Popular recipes on the basis of salt and sodium is very simple to prepare. Grab a tray for baths, pour hot water, add a couple of tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda and the same amount of salt (normal, sea or iodized), stir. If you have not iodized salt, add a few drops of tincture of iodine. Take baths daily until symptoms disappear.
Soda is perfect for compresses on the legs. To prepare a liter of water, a teaspoon of baking soda, soak socks, a little bit of press. Should use on my feet for a long time, so that at the top of wear Shoe covers / plastic bags, or simply wrapping the legs in cling film. This compress leave on feet for 2 hours. Repeat every day for 1.5 months.
Rowan
Underrated folk remedy for the treatment of fungal infections. According to the recipe, the fresh leaves of the mountain ash need to stretch that stood out the juice, and apply to feet. It is advisable to wrap the top of the burdock leaf, but it can be done without him. On the side of the leg you need to wrap the bandage and leave the compress in a day. After changing to the fresh air. To be treated in 7-10 days.
Kombucha
Another popular recipe from the athlete's foot includes Kombucha. Medusomyces contains usnic acidum and yeast that have weak antifungal effect.
This product is concentrated, it will help with fungus in the nails of the feet. Prepare the infusion: boil for 40 minutes and strain. Broth to moisten the cotton, the wool, apply and close it for the night. The next morning remove the diseased part of the nail and the treatment with iodine.
Another folk recipe for treating fungal recommends cutting the part of the mushroom, grind into a puree and RUB on the feet and nails twice a day.
Celandine
A poisonous plant has a complex disinfectant, anti-inflammatory and soothing effect on the skin. Oil celandine is widely used in the treatment of diseases of the skin, and that is a known folk remedy for nail fungus.
Treatment with celandine do not require manipulations complex. Enough of the steam of feet in soda water bath and lubricate the affected area with the oil of the plant.
Ideal oil for the promotion of the health of the packs. To do this, apply it with a cotton swab, apply to the affected area and fix it for half an hour. This twice a day for 3-4 weeks.
Kalanchoe
Among the ways to treat foot fungus folk remedies often mentioned installations of the aloe. Crush 2-3 leaves of the plant, pour boiling water and steep for 3 hours. Moisten the cotton wool or gauze n in the resulting solution and treat the affected area once a day. Aloe soothes the skin and speeds recovery. It is more effective when the nail fungus on the feet.
Vinegar
Popular folk recipes vinegar creates an environment harmful to the fungus, but it will corrode and the skin on the feet. Apply it carefully in small concentrations and only if there are no ulcers and erosions:
- Do baths with a solution of wine or Apple cider vinegar (1 part vinegar to 6 parts water) for 15 minutes each day until the regeneration of the health of the nails.
- Soak in vinegar and wear socks on feet at night, and repeat daily until symptoms disappear.
- Lubricate the affected areas with a mixture of amounts equal of vinegar and juice of carrots (1 tbsp .l'.), newspaper to restore health.
Use vinegar for the treatment of footwear in contact with the affected skin on the feet. Take 70% of acetic acid, moisten the swab, wipe the inside of the surface, letting the shoes 48 hours to put the shoes in a package tightly closed. After the air.
Simple medicines from the home kit
In addition to the expensive fungicides, there are many simple pharmacy means that you can use if the fungus is still not running. Know how to combat fungi this type of drugs, you will be able to use improvised folk remedies.
Boric acid
Antiseptic that causes coagulation and denaturation of the proteins of pathogenic microorganisms. In folk recipes the tool is used only at the local level and best of all it helps with fungus in the nails of the plate.
Rasparte feet in the shower with soap and baking soda, clean the fabric hardened with a pumice stone, file and trim your nails. After applying boric alcohol in the affected area. Repeat the procedure on the day. Use to disinfect socks, stockings and shoes.
The hydrogen peroxide
Peroxide can be used in the form of compresses. According to popular recipes, it is necessary to put pharmaceutical preparations on the gauze, applying to the affected skin for half an hour. Repeat every night and morning during the week.
Peroxide to prevent the spread of fungi to other areas.
Iodine
Don't even know how to cure a foot fungus, you probably think for a antiseptic, known to everyone since childhood. This drug is used in the folk treatment of fungal infections. Can be used for the preparation of baths and lotions.
Prepare 5 liters of water and add 3 tablespoons of iodine. In this concentrated bath feet soak for 20 minutes, drain. Repeated during the day.
For washes, dilute equal amount of iodine and the alcohol, dip it in the mixture a pad of cotton and Pat the skin on the feet. Apply before bedtime a day for 5-10 days to reduce the symptoms.
Those who tested the method in itself, it is recommended to apply the gel daily on the affected area of the skin and nails after steam. The thymol in the composition of the preparation possesses properties antiseptic, destroys fungi, viruses and bacteria, helps in the treatment of mycosis on the feet.
This is not a complete list of folk remedies for the treatment of nail fungus. But the one that you chose, before you apply, please consult your doctor. In the case of a running of the fungus, a weakened immune system and other aggravating factors traditional recipes can be ineffective. But in properly selected drug therapy this collection will be a great addition to the complexity of the treatment.