Today I’m going to show you my favorite nine things for people to do at home to take care of their toe Fungal Nail Infection. But stick around to the end because I’m gonna tie it all together with my big tip that makes it all work. And we’re starting now.

Best Toe Fungal Nail Infection Treatment

So toenail Fungal Nail Infection is not what a lot of people think, and there’s a lot of crazy stuff in the pharmaceutical industry. There are some drug manufacturers that got in a lot of trouble for jacking up prices to extreme amounts for some of these toenail fungus medications. So there are a lot of studies on these home remedies, and I love to combine them for my patients because a lot of them can be very effective. But that’s always a disclaimer.

Go see your podiatrist. If you have diabetes, if you have blood flow issues, be careful cutting your own skin, and your own nails. You could really hurt yourself. Unfortunately, I have to do a lot of toe amputations and admit a lot of people into the hospital with infections for these reasons. So be safe.

What Causes Toe Fungal Nail Infection?

Let’s talk a little bit about what toenail Fungal Nail Infection is. So what’s important here is to learn a little about nail anatomy. So on the fingers right here, if we look at the side view, you have something called your nail matrix. This isn’t like the Keanu Reeves movie. These are stem cells that continuously grow your nail. So like a train on train tracks, the nail grows out. How fast does it grow? It grows about one and a half times faster on the fingernails and about 50% slower on the toenails.

But on average, it’s a grain of rice on the toenails in length in about three or four months, is what I usually tell people on average. That’s 1.2 mm is the official scientific fact that I’ve seen. So toenail fungus is something called onychomycosis. So fungus is not actually all that dangerous unless it gets into the wrong spots and your body can’t fight it off. So this is usually either really sick people or people with toenails and fingernails and thick, dry skin.

So, athletes, the foot is a common cause of toenail fungus, and it can crawl under your toenails. And that’s kind of the important thing is you got to take care of this, otherwise it’s going to destroy your skin. Get it? Thick, and flaky, it can smell, and it can lead to health issues.

Onychomycosis

Toenail fungus is called onychomycosis, and it can burrow underneath the nail and it can get on top of the nail. It can be white, it can be brown, it can be yellow, and it can turn your nail loose. And black, it can make your toenails smell. It can hurt people’s self-esteem to have these ugly toenails. A lot of patients come to me and they’re afraid to show their toenails, but you can really get these things better. These things do work, and it’s not something you have to live with your whole life. Podiatrists and treatments can help.

Toe Nail Fungal Infection Medication

So the medications are Trabenoffin or lamisil or itraconazole these ones, do have a lot of side effects. And the side effects of these medications are the biggest thing is we always have to run blood tests to make sure you’re not getting liver damage. You can get an upset stomach. You can get dizziness, and get used to a lot. They don’t always cause a complete cure. In fact, the majority of the time they don’t. So that’s why some supplemental topical treatments that are easy and relatively safe to do are available.

Big Mistake

Take a look at this thick skin on the bottom of the foot. The blood flow does not penetrate that type of thick skin. Same thing with this thick toenail. Blood flow does not reach the top of that nail. How can a pill through your bloodstream reach the top of the nail? It can’t. That’s why topical lotions and some of these remedies can be even more effective, than some of these more dangerous pills.

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Vicks Vaporub For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

So number one, here’s my favorite one that I tell people to do, Vicks vaporub. So Vicks vaporub, actually a lot of studies. It has camphor, eucalyptus, menthol. All these things are toxic and antifungal. Antibacterial. You just take a little bit, swab it, put it on your toenails at night or at the morning, dose it in there, and it can kill that Fungal Nail Infection extremely well. So Vicks vaporub is a great treatment for Fungal Nail Infections.

Tea Tree Oil For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

Number two is tea tree oil. I love tea tree oil. This one can be a little bit more expensive than Vicks vaporub. So it’s not necessarily my go-to. But tea tree oil does have antifungal, and antibacterial qualities. People have great results with this. Just apply it with like a little cotton swab in the morning on your toenails, on your fingernails. Make sure you get it in there. These things can work really well too. Great studies.

Apple Cider Vinegar For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

Take a little bit of apple cider vinegar and pour it into a bowl with some warm water, like one-third or half of apple cider vinegar. Soak for like 15 to 20 minutes, there’s a lot of good stuff in apple cider vinegar.

And vinegar has been shown to kill fungus, has been shown to kill bacteria. So you can get some great results with these things. In terms of risk, there’s very little risk in general.

Listerine For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

So the mouthwash Listerine you’re not drinking it. What you’re doing is you’re putting it in a tub and a water tub and soaking your toes in there. So we’re talking 15 to 20 minutes watching some TV. At the end of the day, it’s going to feel good for your feet. On Amazon, we link some of those footbaths. You could pour it in there, soak and massage your feet at the same time, and get rid of your fungus. And studies definitely do show that this helps.

Garlic For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

So this is one that actually has surprisingly excellent results. I don’t recommend this one because garlic stinks. My daughter and my wife, have very sensitive smells. So I could never get away with using garlic because it has a really bad odor to it. But a 2009 study showed excellent results. So basically, people squished it, use the juice, and kind of put it on their nails. What’s even easier is you can buy some capsules or buy some premade stuff, and put it on your nails and fingernails. But again, garlic kind of smells.

Olive Leaf Extract For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

So a 2012 study showed that olive leaf extract did an amazing job. It has antifungal and antibacterial properties. People put it on their fingernails and their toenails three times a day. Great results. Killed that fungus.

Oregano Oil For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

So this might be something a little bit more easily available. So 2016 study showed it has thymol in it, and it has some antibacterial, and antifungal properties, the same kind of thing. You just grab a Q tip, and rub it on your fingernails in the morning, and in the evening. Great results. Keep up the use.

Diet For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

And number eight is diet. So the trick with the diet is if you have diabetes if you have blood flow issues if you have a bad heart if you’re overweight. I’m a huge, huge fan of intermittent fasting, cutting down the sugars, and getting your health into great shape. Fixing your diet gets your immune system up, and gets your blood flow down to your toenails and your fingernails. This does an amazing job. This is probably food you should be eating anyway.

Biotin Vitamins For Toe Fungal Nail Infection

Biotin is another essential vitamin. This is one that studies recently are showing can make a dramatic difference in helping grow back nails healthier, stronger, and faster. So if you need to consider biotin as well.

Keep The Feet Dry And Clean

So fungus lives in dark places, kind of like a mushroom, that mushroom joke. What do you feed a mushroom? Like, you give it crap and leave it alone in the dark and don’t tell it what’s going on. That’s what fungus is. And I make these jokes because I’m also a fun guy, so I’m allowed to do this. But the trick is you can’t wear the same socks over and over. If you have foot fungus, change your socks every day, even maybe twice per day.

Like if you’re a factory worker on your feet all day. I’m going to link some socks. because it’s always confusing. I say get socks that wick moisture. But people always get confused. That’s always the number one question. So just check out my recommendations. You don’t have to buy them from me. That’s just some recommendations for Fungal Nail Infection.

Clean your shoes

If you have ugly, dirty gym shoes and you’re going out on a date or something, get some Lysol spray. Wash them, clean them. A lot of the things we talk about clean out your shoes. You can use anti-sweat agents, so Astringents and I’ll link some. You can use powders to dry out your feet. Lamb is so powder works great for Fungal Nail Infection. It’s cheap again, down below, rather than talking about this for an hour, I just talk about which ones to get.

And that probably can help out a little bit. Keep those feet dry, keep them clean, keep the sweat off as much as possible using all these strategies, and make sure your shoe is aerated as much as possible.

Newer, more expensive shoes tend to do this, but at the same time, like leather occlusive shoes, that means the ones that don’t let you breathe, they will smell, they will hold bacteria and fungus that just keeps reattaching your foot. Now, here’s the big secret. This is the big, big secret. The biggest thing I see people not do, is their toenails are loose, they’re too thick and they’re detached.

So for the most part, you can put all of these things on your fingernails and your toenails. But if they’re not penetrating through that thick nail, they will not get to the bottom where the fungus is hiding like a reservoir. So this is like in the military when people hide in the bunkers and the bombs land on top.

If you don’t smooth down that nail, if you don’t clip that nail before you apply all these things, odds are it won’t make it in there. So that’s the trick. And as a podiatrist, that’s what I do. And we see rapid, rapid, very rapid relief. I see people within a couple of appointments, their fungus is gone after like 10 to 20 years of trying all these different creams and remedies. But that’s what you need to do. But be careful. Don’t cut yourself. Go see a professional, especially if you have health issues.

Best Athlete’s Foot Fungus Treatment

But big bonus tip number two. Bonus tip number two is even if you cure your toenail fungus, you have to get your athlete’s foot. So the thick skin on the bottom of your foot, your calluses fungus hides there and it crawls right back into your nail. So as soon as you cure your nail, it will get right back.

So toenail fungus lives on this thick skin. Even if you cure your nails, it’s going to crawl from that thick, dry skin right back into your toenail. So it’s very important to get both the toenail and the fungus. So see, it lives in those thicker outer skin layers and blood flow does not get there, so your immune system can’t kill it. In the clinic, I would trim this up for you. And it’s the same thing for the toenails and the skin.

Look at it. There’s no blood flow coming into thick skin chunks like this. And look at how thick this nail is. There’s no way a pill will be delivered by your blood flow into those outer thick segments. From the top, this gel will not make it to the bottom source of the nail.

You could use both the cream and the pills, but why not just trim it with a podiatrist and make sure it gets to the root? Same thing for this thick skin in the back. Cremes will not penetrate into the deeper layers. You have to trim that. But wait, there’s another trick to why it might not work.

The Big Secret And Big Mistake

The big tip, the secret tip for Fungal Nail Infection is studies show you have to do this stuff for at least four weeks. Everything we talked about here, so cleaning your feet, cleaning your shoes, trimming your toenails, if you do it for two weeks, the success rate, studies have shown is 50 % to 60 %. If you do it for four weeks or more, using the different creams, and all the topical agents, that’s when people have 90 % relief.

Why? Because your skin takes at least 30 days to regenerate. Our skin has stem cells. It takes your skin time to push it out. You can have that fungus hiding in those deep layers. If you’re not exfoliating, if you’re not cleaning, so that’s the goal, the sea salt soaks to get deep down in there, you’re not going to have great results. So combining the soaks and a lot of these creams does an amazing job.

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