Remedies for treating onychomycosis

When it comes to the disease of onychomycosis, I believe many people are not unfamiliar with it. Onychomycosis is a relatively common skin disease at present. It will cause spots to appear on the skin around the nails and even cause the nails to turn black. If not treated in time, it will have an extremely serious impact on our daily life and may also be transmitted to our family and friends. Therefore, timely treatment in the early stages of the disease is very important. So are folk remedies effective for treating onychomycosis?

There are many different ways to treat onychomycosis. In addition to taking medications and applying professional potions, there are also many folk remedies that are said to be helpful in treating onychomycosis. Below I will give you a detailed introduction to the effects and methods of folk remedies for treating onychomycosis.

Onychomycosis is a tinea-like disease characterized by thickening of the nails, dark gray, or the appearance of yellow and white spots, and loss of luster. It brings serious troubles to our lives. If not treated in time, onychomycosis can be contagious. Many people are troubled by onychomycosis. Therefore, treating onychomycosis is a top priority.

There are many ways to treat onychomycosis. The most convenient and cost-effective ones are folk remedies. Below are some folk remedies that I hope will help you treat onychomycosis.

Remedies for treating onychomycosis

Recipe 1

Drug preparation: Take 20 cloves of garlic, remove the skin, chop or mash them, and put them in a wide-mouthed glass bottle with a stopper. Add 150 ml of 10% acetic acid (vinegar can also be used instead), soak for one day, and then it can be used.

Treatment method: Soak the diseased nail in warm water for 5 minutes to soften the nail, use scissors to cut off or scrape off the diseased nail that can be removed, and insert the diseased nail into garlic extract and soak it for 15 minutes. Take it 3 times a day and you will see results in a week. If not cured, another course of treatment can be given according to the above method.

To save time, you can also apply garlic extract on the diseased nails with cotton swabs, soak or apply garlic extract. Sometimes the diseased nail may feel a little painful, but you should persevere. Garlic extract can be stored for a long time and used repeatedly. This method is also effective in treating tinea pedis (athlete's foot).

Recipe 2

Drug preparation: 40 grams of urea, 20 grams of lanolin, 5 grams of white wax, and add vaseline to 100 grams. This urea preparation is a strong keratolytic agent.

Treatment method: When applying, protect the skin around the diseased nail with gauze strips, fix it with tape, and then wrap it with gauze. Change the dressing once a day. Use a knife to separate the nail plate each time to separate the nail plate from the nail bed. Generally, the nail plate will soften and separate from the nail bed after 5 to 7 dressing changes.

After separation, use small scissors to cut the nail plate into two halves, disinfect the area with iodine, and add a few drops of 1% to 2% procaine solution. After a few minutes, remove the diseased nail and scrape off the uneven keratinized material on the nail bed. Then apply a mixed ointment of equal parts of urea ointment and compound benzoic acid ointment. Change the dressing once a day until the new nail grows out completely.

Recipe 3

Drug preparation: Take 500 ml of Shanxi Taiyuan aged vinegar (the older the better), put it in an iron pot and boil it, concentrate it to 150 ml, then rinse 50 grams of Sophora flavescens and 20 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum with water, put them into the concentrated vinegar, soak for a week and it can be used.

Treatment method: Before applying the medicine, soak the gray nails (toenails) in hot water to soften them, and then use a blade to gently scrape off the diseased nails layer by layer. The more thoroughly the diseased nail is scraped, the more significant the treatment effect will be. The treatment should be carried out without bleeding or pain. Then use a sterilized cotton ball dipped in the medicine to soak the diseased nail for 5 to 10 minutes, and do this once a day before going to bed. The medicine usually takes 5 to 7 days to take effect.

Precautions

1. Be sure to soak the affected nails in hot water before applying the medicine each time so that the medicine can reach the affected area directly and accelerate the effect.

2. During the treatment, avoid washing the affected area with cold water and keep your shoes and socks dry and clean.

After reading the above detailed introduction to the effects and methods of folk remedies for treating onychomycosis, I believe that you all have a general understanding of the treatment of onychomycosis. The folk remedies introduced above may not be suitable for everyone. Therefore, if you have skin diseases such as onychomycosis, it is best to go to a regular dermatology hospital to consult a doctor, which will be more helpful for your condition.