Best fungal nail treatment

gettingtheresometime

I found that swimming cured mine

kanzy

Sprinkle antifungal powder in your shoes. These products cannot treat a fungal nail infection, but they can help prevent fungus from growing in your shoes. Keep your nails short. When trimming your toenails, you want to cut them straight across and keep your toenails shorter than the end of your toes.

Greylocks

In reply to op:

Diagnosis of a fungal nail is not straightforward. But if you think it is fungal and is only present at the far tip of the nail then consider treating the skin as the first priority. There is a possibility the fungus will grow out of the nail.
To treat the skin: use lamisil cream every day for one week, repeat once a month.
A topical nail treatment might help as well, eg. Curanail.

G

Pollycat

smithany
Is arishine readily available in the UK?

edwards142

Have issues with both big toes – the tablets from the docs didn’t do anything. Just to describe how bad it is – my left nail is very brittle and grows but is so thin it breaks off very easily – pretty much no real toenail to speak off, there is then something else underneath the nail that almost peels off in strips. Right nail is not attached to toe but is pretty thick – both look hideous.

Finally, I treated it with the help of some OTC medicines and application of natural remedies regularly. And also realized that I needed better shoes that didn’t give me sweaty feet. I chucked some old shoes out, bought some leather soled and upper shoes and wore those as much as possible, and sprayed athletes foot spray into any old shoes I kept to kill the fungus spores.

curetoenailfungus.info/blog/treat-toenail-fungus-over-the-counter-lacquer-the-easiest-way-you-just-want

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es5595

I recommend Emitrix. My other half has very bad fungal nails and with this they’re slowly improving.

Also, as others have said, treat your shoes with antifungal powder, and your feet with something like lamsil once.

georgewhittington

Oral antifungal drugs. These drugs are often the first choice because they clear the infection more quickly than do topical drugs. Options include terbinafine (Lamisil) and itraconazole (Sporanox). These drugs help a new nail grow free of infection, slowly replacing the infected part

A.Penny.Saved

I tried all over the counter items for athletes foot and none would clear it.

I used lugols iodine in a small finger/thumb pump hand spray bottle and it cleared it in a few days like magic.

The biggest problem was lugols is brown and can stain everything! Therefore it needs to be used cautiously ie not getting it onto the floor/carpet or towels etc. I used some plastic to protect the floor.

I never tried it at the time because I did not have any but potassium iodide which is clear and sold as crystals which needs to be mixed with distilled water might have a similar effect without the risk of staining. I do have some now but the athletes foot has never returned in well over 2 years so I have never been able to verify that potassium iodide works as well.

Fungal infections of the nails depending upon how deep it has got, could be harder to clear and might require more persistence.

Potassium iodide might be a good option to destroy the fungus inside socks and shoes by washing in a potassium iodide solution which will not stain the shoes/socks etc. If you fail to destroy the fungal spores then it could come back!

MoneySaver123

sorry sorry to dig up an old thread but where on earth can you get potassium iodide from as per above? 

coffeehound

From the Wikipedia page, it doesn't look as though potassium iodide has the same properties as Lugol's iodine.