Yeast infection of the feet is a disease whose signs are seen in about 20% of people. Yeast infection is easily caught by walking barefoot on a wet pool floor or in a sports locker room, but it is not so easy to cure. You should start treatment quickly, when the first symptoms appear. To do this, use any folk remedy for yeast infection of the feet in combination with medications prescribed by your doctor.
How to get rid of fungus on the feet with folk remedies
There are many ways to get rid of the fungus on the feet with folk remedies. The most famous of them are birch tar, garlic and onions, soda and salt, celandine, vinegar. All of them are able to relieve the disease of onychomycosis, and with regular use they help to heal.
Birch tar
A well-known folk remedy for fungus on the feet. Tar contains up to 15% tannins, phenols, alkaloids, essential oils, a small amount of carcinogens. It is not known when tar was first used medicinally, but traditional medicine has long known how to treat fungi with the help of this viscous and pungent birch distillation product.
Applied on the feet, the tar acts on several problems at the same time. It will soften the keratinized areas, relieve inflammation and create conditions unfavorable for infection.
The simplest folk remedy based on it is tar soap. It is suitable for different procedures:
- Soap paste lotions. Rub the soap powder, dilute with water until semi-liquid consistency, apply to the affected legs, fix with a bandage and leave for 3 hours.
- Thermal baths. Rub the soap, measure 3 tbsp. l. Fill a basin with hot water and dilute the soap powder. Steam your legs for a quarter of an hour.
- Friction. Grind a little powdered tar soap, measure out 1 tsp. Add 2 tbsp. l. water and 1 tsp. a soda. Apply the mixture to the nail affected by the fungus before going to bed, rinse the rest in the morning. Repeat daily.
If there is no soap, but there is pure tar, it can be made into an ointment. According to the popular recipe, you can take badger fat or any neutral cream as a basis. Equal parts of base and tar are mixed and used to lubricate the affected areas on the legs. After two hours, rinse the skin to remove excess ointment.
You can improve the folk recipe with sulfur powder. Take 2 parts tar, 1 part sulfur, 1 part cream or badger fat. The composition should be heated and mixed well. Apply the finished ointment to your nails and cover with a bandage.
Antifungal vegetables - garlic and onions
Onions and garlic are the most effective foods against fungal infections. They cleanse the skin, strengthen the body's immune defenses, and work very well in tandem. In folk medicine, they are used for a wide range of diseases.
Garlic is rich in phytoncides, allicin (substance with a strong fungicidal effect), essential oils. Onions are rich in phytoncides and essential oils, flavonoids.
For mushrooms on the feet, apply the vegetables externally alone or as a mixture:
- Garlic juice. Crush the cloves, squeeze out the juice and apply to your feet twice a day with any applicator, but not with your fingers.
- Onion and garlic juice. Chop 4 cloves of garlic, pour over 1 tbsp. l. Onion juice. Apply and keep the composition on your feet with a compress or bandage for half an hour.
- Onion compresses. Chop the onion, mix with petroleum jelly in equal proportions. Apply daily to the skin of the legs for 10 to 15 days.
- Applied to garlic. There is no time to squeeze out the garlic juice - just cut a clove in half, sprinkle with salt and rub the affected skin in half.
- Garlic milk. Prepare the garlic porridge and squeeze the juice. Mix 1 part juice with 1 part water and 1 part rubbing alcohol. Apply the resulting lotion to the affected area of your legs.
Essential oils
In the recipes recommended by folk medicine for foot fungus, various essential oils are often mentioned - cloves, cinnamon, thyme, cassia oil, geranium, oregano and lemongrass.
<1_img_centerxx>But the most demanded is the essential oil of tea tree. It is a powerful antiseptic at high concentration. Use with caution so as not to cause burning, redness or irritation to the skin.
There are several versions of the use of folk remedies - you can rub in pure oil or dissolve it in baths.
To prepare a healing bath, use the following proportions: 1 liter of water, 1 tbsp. soda, 1 tbsp. l. salt, 15 drops of oil, 1 tbsp. l. honey. If you need more mixing, multiply the amount of all components. Baths are carried out for 20 minutes, every day without interruption for 1 to 3 months.
Bath herbs
Herbal baths are mild folk remedies for foot fungus. Just make sure that you don't have an allergic reaction to the plants that make up the composition.
A simple folk recipe includes leaves of burdock, yarrow, plantain and wormwood. Mix the herbs in equal proportions, for example 2 tbsp. l. Pour boiling water over the raw material, wait for it to cool a little, fill the basin with broth and immerse your feet. After a few days of daily steaming, the condition will improve.
A good effect is given by a decoction of oak bark. Prepare it at the rate of 4 tbsp. l. dry raw materials for 1 liter of water. Add 2 drops of peppermint essential oil and 10 drops of tea tree oil, mix and let cool. After an hour, combine the broth, 3 liters of hot water and 2 tbsp. l. a soda. You can keep your feet in such a mixture for 30 minutes. Make time for this in your daily schedule. The course usually lasts 2 weeks.
Soda and salt
Folk recipes based on salt and soda are extremely easy to prepare. Take a basin for baths, pour hot water, add a few tablespoons of baking soda and the same amount of salt (ordinary, sea or iodized), stir. If you have non-iodized salt, add a few drops of iodine. Steam your feet every day until the symptoms go away.
Baking soda is good for compresses on your feet. Prepare a liter of water, a teaspoon of baking soda, soak socks in it, wring out a little. They should be worn on your feet for a long time, so put plastic shoe covers / bags on them, or just wrap your feet with cling film. Leave this compress on your feet for 2 hours. Repeat daily for 1. 5 months.
Rowan tree
An underrated folk remedy for the treatment of yeast infection. According to the recipe, the fresh rowan leaves should be kneaded so that the juice appears, and applied to the feet. It is advisable to wrap it on it with a burdock leaf, but you can do without it. Then you need to wrap the leg with a bandage and leave the compress for a day. Then go to the fridge. To be treated for 7 to 10 days.
Tea mushroom
Another popular recipe for foot mushrooms includes kombucha. Medusomycete contains usnic acid and yeast, which have a weak antifungal effect.
The fungus can be improved by using an infusion that accumulates over three months.
Such a concentrated remedy will help against nail fungus. Prepare the infusion: boil for 40 minutes and strain. Moisten cotton with broth, apply and set overnight. In the morning, remove the diseased part of the nail and treat with iodine.
Another popular recipe for treating fungus recommends cutting off some of the fungus, mashing it, and rubbing it on the feet and nails twice a day.
Celandine
The poisonous plant has a complex disinfectant, anti-inflammatory and soothing effect on the skin. Celandine oil is widely used in the treatment of skin diseases and it is a well-known folk remedy for nail fungus.
Treatment with celandine does not require complex manipulations. Just spray your feet in a soda bath and lubricate the affected areas with vegetable oil.
The oil is suitable for medical compresses. To do this, apply it on a cotton swab, fix it on the affected area and fix it for half an hour. Do this twice a day for 3 to 4 weeks.
Kalanchoe
Among the methods of treating foot fungus with folk remedies, indoor aloe is often mentioned. Grind 2-3 leaves of the plant, pour boiling water and leave for 3 hours. Dampen cotton or gauze in the resulting solution and treat the affected area once a day. Aloe softens the skin and speeds up healing. It works best for nail fungus.
The vinegar
Vinegar, popular in folk recipes, creates a destructive environment for the fungus, but it can also corrode the skin on the legs. Use it with caution, in small concentrations and only if there are no ulcers or erosions:
- Soak in a solution of wine or apple cider vinegar (1 part vinegar to 6 parts water) for 15 minutes every other day until healthy nails grow back.
- Soak the socks in vinegar and put your feet up overnight, repeat daily until symptoms subside.
- Lubricate the affected areas with a mixture of equal amounts of vinegar essence and carrot juice (1 tablespoon each), daily until health is restored.
Use vinegar on shoes that come in contact with the affected skin on your feet. Take 70% acetic acid, moisten a cotton swab, wipe the inside surface, leave in your shoes for 48 hours, placing the shoes in a tightly closed bag. Then ventilate.
Don't forget socks and tights - it's best to boil them, not just wash them.
Simple medications from the home first aid kit
In addition to expensive fungicidal preparations, there are many simple pharmaceutical remedies that can be used if the fungus on the legs has not started so badly yet. Knowing how to treat the fungus with such drugs, you can use the available folk remedies.
Boric acid
Antiseptic which causes coagulation and denaturation of the proteins of pathogenic microorganisms. In folk recipes, the remedy is used only topically and, most importantly, helps to combat nail fungus.
Steam your feet in a soap and baking soda bath, remove rough fabrics with a pumice stone, file and cut your nails. Then apply boric alcohol to the affected areas. Repeat the procedure daily. Use disinfectant for socks, tights, and shoes.
Hydrogen peroxide
The peroxide can be used as a compress. According to folk recipes, it is necessary to apply a pharmaceutical preparation on gauze, apply to the affected skin for half an hour. Repeat every evening and morning for a week.
The peroxide will prevent the fungus from spreading to other areas.
Iodine
Even without knowing how to cure the fungus on the feet, you will most likely remember this antiseptic, familiar to everyone from childhood. This drug is used as part of the popular treatment for yeast infection. It can be used to make trays and lotions.
Prepare 5 liters of water and add 3 tbsp. l. iodine. Immerse your feet in such a concentrated bath for 20 minutes, then pat dry. Repeat every two days.
For lotions, dilute an equal amount of iodine and alcohol, dip a cotton ball in the mixture, and dab the skin of your feet. Apply daily at bedtime for 5-10 days until symptoms subside.
Iodine is not used for intolerance to this element and for diseases of the thyroid gland.
Drops with essential oils
Medicine prescribed for colds. But it is also effective against certain fungi. Those who have tried the folk method on themselves recommend applying the product daily to the affected area of the skin and nails after steaming. The substances in the composition of the drug have antiseptic properties, destroy fungi, viruses and bacteria, help in the complex treatment of mycosis on the legs.
This is not a complete list of folk remedies for the treatment of nail fungus. But whatever you choose, be sure to consult your doctor before using. In the case of neglected mushroom, weakened immunity and other aggravating factors, folk recipes may be ineffective. But with correctly selected drug therapy, these drugs will be an excellent addition to complex therapy.