Nail infection...

[gabyjane]

I have a nail infection on my hand and it doesn't seem to want to shift! I am on something called Loceryl which is painted on, i have been doing this for years and have had enough tbh.

I have been told by the doctor that i cannot use anything else due to my pilll so am i just stuck with this nail as i really don't want to change pill tbh.
Any help appreciated.Thanks

[Skint_Catt]

What does he mean anything else? What other options are there?

[bryanb]

Tea tree oil did it on wife's toenail, but took a couple of months. It's a natural remedy so should not need to involve the doctor.

[gabyjane]

What does he mean anything else? What other options are there?

I think he meant the other types of cream or liquid like i use aren't going to be any good. They have some in Superdrug for £16 or close to and would quite happily spend if i thought it would do any good!

Thanks bryanb was it just pure T-tree oil as we have the essence stuff? thanks.

[TomsMom]

I second the tea tree oil. I used Loceryl for years but kept getting reinfection of toe nail. I was advised a slightly different, but a bit messy, alternative but it worked a treat.

Get a bulb of garlic. Each night crush one clove and put the juice on the infected nail (that's the messy bit, it's a bit sticky). Each morning clean it off.

Also, each morning, after cleaning the garlic juice off, put a VERY SMALL amount of neat tea tree oil onto the affected NAIL ONLY using a cotton bud (one drop of oil should be enough) - avoid the skin as it will blister if you're not careful.

Do this until you've used up the bulb of garlic - probably about 8 days or so. You could possibly continue using the tea tree oil for a week more.

The fungal infection should have been killed by now, just wait for it to grow out.

I did this for two weeks and after years of toe nail infection I now have had a lovely healthy nail for months.

[digger3]

The lotion you can buy for aout £16 is the same active ingredient as the loceryl you got off your GP.So don't waste your money on that one.

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i got rid of mine by using neat lavender oil
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[TomsMom]

I have been on loceryl for 6 months now and nothing is happening for me ethier i thought about getting some tablets from the doc anyone had any success with tablets?

Do as I did - see post #5 - I have now been fungal infection free for about 12 months after years of using Loceryl.

If you don't fancy the garlic bit, just use the neat tea tree oil but be very careful not to get it on the skin, just the nail only.

[RedBern]

I read recently about using listerine (mouth wash) to soak your toe-nail in for fungal infections and then you had to apply something - and I can't remember but it was possibly tea-tree or marigold?

[frivolous_fay]

What does he mean anything else? What other options are there?

Oral antibiotics reduce the effectiveness of the pill.

[moneysaving pharmacist]

Oral antibiotics reduce the effectiveness of the pill.

But you don't use antibiotics to treat a fungal infection - you use an antifungal.

There are two main ways medicines can affect the contraceptive pill. The first is by killing off the bacteria in the gut which recycle oestrogen - this is how many antibiotics interact with the pill. However this is still controversial and it is not clear that there is actually any reduced contraceptive effect.

The other way medicines can reduce the effect of oral contraceptives is by affecting the liver. Drugs are broken down in the liver so that the body can get rid of them. Some drugs increase how quickly other drugs are broken down by the liver - if a drug is metabolised more quickly in the liver then a higher dose is needed to have the same effect. Drugs that do this include some antibiotics, such as rifampicin, some antifungal drugs and a lot of antiepileptic drugs.

[frivolous_fay]

But you don't use antibiotics to treat a fungal infection - you use an antifungal.

Ah, sorry, missed that it was fungal. My friend pierced her fingernail and it got infected and swelled up like a balloon... I was imagining something like that.