If you’re a toenail fungus sufferer who has been scared off by expensive drug treatments, not to mention the danger of side effects from those drugs, you’re in good company. An estimated 35 million people suffer from toenail fungus (onychomycosis) all over the world.
Infected nails are typically yellow in color, separating from the nail bed, cracked and crumbled in appearance. If this is true in your case, be sure to verify your condition by seeing a physician. Most physicians, not surprisingly, will recommend a drug-based treatment. Don’t be surprised if your doctor fails to mention that you have other–non-drug–options as well. We call these natural or “home” remedies, some of which have been around for many years.
Can you place any value on these non-medical remedies that nail fungus suffers have relied upon all over the world? Absolutely.
Thousands of people are ridding themselves of this very resistant and hard-to-control/cure disease every year. Keep in mind that this condition is one that requires months to recover some–governed by the fact that nails grow at a relatively slow pace. However, if you can follow a simple daily routine, we’ve found, you may be able to successfully treat your condition using long-tested and proven natural solutions.
Do these home remedies work for everyone infected with nail fungus? No–there’s probably no remedy that works for everyone every time, just as no drug is 100% effective for all patients. Some, however, may be more effective than others. Possibly even as effective as expensive drug treatments, though we haven’t been able to identify independent studies that could verify this. Some of the remedies that people have found to be especially successful include the following.
Treatment No. 1: Vinegar—When You Really, Really Want a Cure
There are any number of popular home remedies for toenail fungus, including tea tree oil, Vicks Vapor Rub, Listerine and more. But the one that seems to work most reliably is plain ole vinegar. Yes, the same ingredient your grandma used for everything from cleaning to cooking.
Vinegar has been shown to be especially effective in killing toenail fungus, according to many sources. The fungus spores start dying out as soon as they are reached by the vinegar, that’s how quickly it works. . Unlike drugs that can cost you hundreds of dollars (rarely covered by your health insurance policy), you can pick up a year’s worth of common vinegar for less than $5 at your local grocery store.
Of course, there’s more to the success of vinegar on fungus than just picking up a bottle at the store. You have to know the proper procedure for apply it to the infected nails as well, otherwise you’ll almost certainly be faced with a recurring condition once you’ve stopped the treament. Many people have attempted to use vinegar, only to see it fail completely as a cure. In fact, some report that previously uninfected nails became infected once they had begun the treatment.
This happens only when you use the wrong application techniques, and is easily avoided.
Others have tried vinegar a few days or weeks, then have stopped the treatment when they saw no results. Don’t be so quick to give up. It took time for the infection to develop and it’ll take time to get rid of it. Most proponents of the vinegar treatment agree that you need to stay with the applications for at least 3 or 4 months before you see improvement, while others reported seeing a healthier appearance to the infected nails in just a few weeks, possibly in as short a time as a month before you see a pink, healthy nail growing back in. Considering that it takes toenails a full year to grow out, it makes sense that any treatment will take at least that long for a complete cure.
The top-selling ebook describing the vinegar treatment (and a second treatment that was also found to work) as well as the conditions that may have caused you to get the infection in the first place is “Nail That Fungus Forever,” available at http://www.how-to-stop-nail-fungus.com.
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