How to cure athlete's foot at home?Folk remediesAs soon as a fungal infection passes from the carrier to a healthy person, it immediately begins to develop intensively.People with impaired metabolism, weak immunity and increased sweating are particularly at risk.Therefore, as soon as the infection enters the body, it is urgent to start fighting it.The slightest manifestation requires immediate treatment.The best way is traditional medicine.A number of medical and folk measures are even better, since the effect occurs faster: the healing process is accelerated several times.
First of all, it is necessary to diagnose the disease.It is better to contact a specialist for this.If necessary, a diagnosis is prescribed, which is carried out by a mycologist.To prevent the fungus from becoming chronic and haunting you for many years, you need to determine its type and start treatment as soon as possible.Remember: the treatment you have started does not need to be interrupted, even if you think that everything is fine and the disease has subsided.Infectious cells can become dormant and even mutate, progressing to the chronic stage of the disease.
You can diagnose athlete's foot yourself.The main thing is to know about the first manifestations.Because like any other illness, it also has its first signs.
Signs of the disease
Pay attention to the skin of your feet.Especially carefully examine the surface of the skin that is near the nail.Also examine the nail itself. It often happens that the fungus affects not only the skin on the feet, but also the nails.
The initial stage does not show any signs, in the second it is clear that the skin began to peel off, acquired an unnatural color and the nail plate faded, became yellowish and even delamination of the nail plate appeared.The skin on my legs has become rougher in places.The same picture can be observed with nails.
Recipe one – soap and soda method
These are nothing more than soap and soda baths that you can make yourself at home.Thanks to the soap and soda solution, the skin pores and nail plate are cleaned.
Carrying out this procedure at home is quite simple.To do this, you need a clean bath, boiled hot and cold water and soda.The solution is prepared as follows.Take a small container, pour 1000 grams of soda into it and pour boiling water.After that, the resulting solution must be shaken thoroughly.This must be done until the added soda is completely dissolved in the water.After that, the soda solution must be set aside to make soap shavings.Normal laundry soap is best suited for this.Soap shavings consumption is based on one bar of soap per five liters of water.
Normally you need at least three to four liters of water for a bath.Accordingly, the amount of soda increases several times the more water is consumed.Then soap shavings are poured into a bath of soda solution and stirred until the soap is completely melted.
When the bath is prepared, the water cools down naturally.In this case, you need to take another container into which you pour exactly half of the finished composition and put it on the fire.Since the water has already boiled, there is no need to bring it to a boil, just heat it thoroughly.You should dip your feet in the second half of the water and add the hot mixture as the soap and soda solution cools.
The second recipe is based on iodine and propolis
Treatment with iodine is best done after consulting a doctor.The main thing is that you are not prone to an allergic reaction to iodine.
The recipe for making an iodine solution is very simple.Iodine is a product that can always be purchased at the pharmacy and is usually always in the home medicine cabinet.Therefore, iodine can be considered a kind of rescue agent at the first manifestation of a fungus on the legs.Just before starting treatment, pay attention to the composition of your iodine.It should only be a 5% solution.If you treat the fungus yourself, it is better not to use other means.The affected areas on the legs should be treated with iodine once a day for two weeks.If necessary, the procedure can be extended to a month and repeated after a few weeks.
The second no less effective remedy is propolis.It is known to be a bee product.So if you don't have an allergic reaction to it, you can try this method without hesitation.This mushroom killer recipe requires a little preparation.The first step is to make an alcohol tincture of propolis.To do this, you need to take 100 grams of propolis, put it in a glass container and pour 500 g of 40 percent vodka.The tincture must stand for at least 10 days.And only after that it can be used as one of the most effective means in the fight against fungi.The affected skin areas should be treated with the resulting alcohol solution three times a day.Due to the unique property of propolis and its combination with alcohol, this type of fungal treatment is considered the most effective in folk medicine.Thanks to this tincture, you can get rid of the disease in just 10 days.The infectious fungal cells die, the affected areas soon heal and a new, healthy one grows in place of the nail plate.
Recipe three – birch tar and potassium permanganate
Tar successfully fights the occurrence of the disease.Immediately before use, you need to do a whole preparation and make a soapy foot bath at home:
- You need to immerse your feet in a warm soapy solution for 30-40 minutes.
- after a soapy bath, nails must be cut, heels thoroughly washed with pumice stone, special attention must be paid to the areas of skin between the toes;
- After that, you need to dry your feet thoroughly with a prepared clean towel.
- after that, all affected areas are carefully lubricated with tar and wrapped in polyethylene, warm socks are put on;the legs should remain in this state for at least 1.5-2 hours;
- After two hours, the tar substance must be washed off with laundry soap and warm water.
The usual and well-known potassium permanganate will help you cure athlete's foot and forget about it forever.Due to its unique properties, potassium permanganate allows you to very quickly achieve the desired result and get rid of a disease such as athlete's foot forever.In addition, you can carry out the procedure yourself without leaving home.To do this, all you need is a bath, potassium permanganate and ordinary table vinegar.A potassium permanganate solution is prepared with three liters of clean, boiled and slightly cooled water, a liter of vinegar and a tablespoon of dry potassium permanganate powder.Remember that potassium permanganate can cause burns to the skin.First, one leg is lowered into the resulting composition, then the second, so that each of the legs remains in the solution for at least 15 minutes.After that, each foot should be thoroughly patted with a clean towel and it is advisable to put on socks in which you must go to bed.
This type of procedure must be carried out once a day, exclusively at night, for a week.
It is better to prevent the occurrence of the disease than to treat nail fungus at home.To this end, it is important to wash and dry your feet daily, especially between the toes.Try to wear breathable shoes.
Because in non-breathable shoes, an infection appears first and begins to multiply very quickly.After 7 days there is no longer any trace of the fungal infection on the legs.